This is a decently strong army-in-a-can variant, but I think it may be the worst of the common cube options. It produces 7 power worth of threats, which is the highest intrinsic value, and the tokens have lifelink, which is a nice bonus. But it creates less bodies than Cloudgoat and can't gain flying. It has a P/T cap and the tokens lose evasion in comparison to GHM. It loses the Minislayer mode, the global anthem and the abusability of AoI. I think it's comparable to the mid-tier 5cc army makers, but falls short of competing advantageously with AoI and CGR, which are really the gold standard for these kinds of creatures.
Why couldn't they have just printed this in black?
Limited bomb, midrange kick in the nuts or control finished purr-fectly wrapped in one card. Nothing like a 1-card armies to seal a game. It may lack the evasion of Angel of Invention but it's sturdier at least, only metagame evolution will tell which of the two takes the slot.
Really a wonderful card design and it feels like dropping a Thragtusk when you are behind. ( Very easy to gain 4 life, trade with their dude and have a 3/3 left over). I really like it with clone effects. In my experience these 5 mana white army cards are very close and while I might not play this one I would never fault someone for doing so. In standard with all the Ballista and shocks the 3/3 body will make it better than the angel, but cube is a land of bolts.
Now if this were black I would laminate it to my cube and write a love letter to wotc.
I'm leaning towards it being slightly worse on average than cloudgoat ranger and angel of invention but I'm not convinced.
They look very similar but have different favourable matchups.
Against removal heavy control it's probably better than angel of invention and on par with cloud goat ranger.
Against Agro , I think its clearly the best of the 3 (by a large margin)
Against mid range or ramp I think it's the worst of the 3 (by a large margin).
It's synergizes are a little less exaggerated/powerful than the three , but they exist and are IMO cooler (cat lord!)
One additional point is, this card is a better sideboard card than the other 5 drops. Control will be very happy to sideboard this in against any small ball decks.
All these factors make me evaluate it as the worst of the three... but again not 100% and will likely test
Pretty good card, although this doesn't replace AOI / CGR for me. What I do like though is that a cube manager can just go all in on 5-cmc white army in a cans if they really want to.
SO, here's our Cloudgoat Ranger/Geist-Honored Monk/Angel of Invention variant for this set. How does it stack up against its counterparts? And how relevant is the Cat tribal part?
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Now if this were black I would laminate it to my cube and write a love letter to wotc.
Don't forget mirror entity for those times when everybody just wants to be a cat.
This, 1000 times this.
Wow, I would love this in black!
I might do as well. This or Captain of the Watch.
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They look very similar but have different favourable matchups.
Against removal heavy control it's probably better than angel of invention and on par with cloud goat ranger.
Against Agro , I think its clearly the best of the 3 (by a large margin)
Against mid range or ramp I think it's the worst of the 3 (by a large margin).
It's synergizes are a little less exaggerated/powerful than the three , but they exist and are IMO cooler (cat lord!)
One additional point is, this card is a better sideboard card than the other 5 drops. Control will be very happy to sideboard this in against any small ball decks.
All these factors make me evaluate it as the worst of the three... but again not 100% and will likely test
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Now I can't stop dreaming about this in black
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Yup, and I think the Angel is better. The white 5cc creature section was stacked before. Now it's getting kinda absurd.
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