Can I get some opinions on this card in 2018? I'm not sure if this card is needed anymore since we received Smuggler's Copter and Fleetwheel Cruiser. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of it because most of my aggro decks have some mana disruption element to them in Tangle wire, Winter Orb, Nethervoid, or 'Geddons, and they don't play well Cursed Scroll. However, one of my drafters did mention how he really liked it so I'm reconsidering if I should add this to my 450 cube. I'd like to give my aggro players another bone, but I don't know if this is good enough.
I was never too hot on it. I get repeatable burn is really powerful but I don't like having to be at 1 hand to guarantee it happening. It's too hard for an aggressive deck to achieve but it does put it squarely in the realm of hard agro and there are cards, like smuggler's copter, I would rather run.
Card got axed for Walking Ballista in my cube. They don't do remotely the same thing, but too often Cursed Scroll sat in sideboards or wheeled too often.
I don't think the card is bad and I wouldn't fault anyone for running it, but our experience with it wasn't great.
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I was never a fan of it TBH. The games where it was able to give you reach to close out a game where another card wouldn't have done it for you were vastly outnumbered by the games where you didn't ever activate it, and even by the games where you wished it had been any other card in your deck.
Crazy talk around here I would keep the cursed scroll even into 180 cubes I really like it that much my players drafted a lot. it's also really powerful card when you start getting into groups at draft a slew of mid-range decks and get into a slugfest and lock up the game it's a great way to get past that
It looks like a very strong effect that could be great in decks that lack direct damage, but I think it needs to cost 2 for activation not 3.
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It's been a while since I've cubed with it, but I imagine it could still be effective in a fast burn deck. Being fetchable with Urza's Saga gives it a new trick to play with too.
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I don't think the card is bad and I wouldn't fault anyone for running it, but our experience with it wasn't great.
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I don't think Copter and Cruiser are similar cards at all.
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