there's only so much room for U card-draw. Deep Analysis is at the top of my list of "card draw that I can't seem to fit in my list". Nothing wrong with playing it, and I'll draft it in any blue deck when I draft another cube, but I haven't missed it since I cut it over a year ago.
As far as Drawn from Dreams is concerned, I feel like all my non-combo U decks would prefer Deep Analysis. And even the combo decks wouldn't really care which they had (with a preference towards dreams). Like Deep Analysis, nothing wrong with playing the card, but I don't think it makes the cut in my list.
This card is no joke, but I think I prefer deep analysis for the fact it's just a cheap flashback spell. I love cards that work out of the graveyard. The full 4-for-1 mode is pricey, certainly, but I think it's still highly valued here regardless.
Think I've been a bit unfair to this card in my initial analysis. While I don't have much/any interest for my own cube, I think it's merely a function of how good it's competition is.
In a "modern" cube or cubes with a rule where old magic sets aren't legal, this would be a powerful addition, provided the cube wasn't too agro focused.
Particularly if it's enabling some sort of combo.
In a high powered cube, it'll still a good card in combo decks, just doubt I want more niche of a draw spell when there's many generically great ones. There are certainly sneak attack/tinker style decks that have a lot of weak cards, and a few extremly high valued cards.. Such that they'd really really want to play this card over the tier 2 draw spells.
Time walk combo decks, balance decks, GU channel decks, decks utilizing draw 7's -> combo.
Considering testing it, as I think there's a sleeper chance (If it's upside in combo decks are high enough, I'd be ok including something more niche)
As far as Drawn from Dreams is concerned, I feel like all my non-combo U decks would prefer Deep Analysis. And even the combo decks wouldn't really care which they had (with a preference towards dreams). Like Deep Analysis, nothing wrong with playing the card, but I don't think it makes the cut in my list.
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In a "modern" cube or cubes with a rule where old magic sets aren't legal, this would be a powerful addition, provided the cube wasn't too agro focused.
Particularly if it's enabling some sort of combo.
In a high powered cube, it'll still a good card in combo decks, just doubt I want more niche of a draw spell when there's many generically great ones. There are certainly sneak attack/tinker style decks that have a lot of weak cards, and a few extremly high valued cards.. Such that they'd really really want to play this card over the tier 2 draw spells.
Time walk combo decks, balance decks, GU channel decks, decks utilizing draw 7's -> combo.
Considering testing it, as I think there's a sleeper chance (If it's upside in combo decks are high enough, I'd be ok including something more niche)
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