It's great. Works fine in the blink archetype if you support it, while also being a powerhouse midrange queen. Drop it on turn 3 in a Abzan deck feels good in that regard. Although WB is not that much on a blink guild, there's some pretty sweet stuff you can do in either Mardu, Abzan or Esper shard. Our playgroup love it, though it's more of a fair card than anything. For that reason, we run it in the fair module of our cube.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I would cut Soldier of the Patheon for the Bodyguard, even if your cube seems to be heavy on multicolor stuff. If you really like Champion, the rest can stay unchanged although there's better 1s outhere.
Would you consider this card a 3-drop or a 4-drop for categorisation?
Or more specific: do you think it will be played for 3 mana or for 4 mana most of the time?
We would rank it as a 4-drop. Spectacle is just an upside.
Does this card seem criminally underplayed to anyone else? Between rainbow sac lands (e.g. Evolving Wilds, fetch lands and Wasteland/Strip Mine, in the right build you are very likely to get 2 5/3s plus ramp for the bargain bin price of 5 mana. With cards like Ramunap Excavator the ceiling is absurd as well and it is so quintessentially green. If you're feeling dirty, EOTing a Crop Rotation for a Wasteland targeting your own land adds 15 power to the board.
Yes it is. Criminally underplayed. This card is nuts with stuff like Rotation, KotR and Zuran Orb. We do run the whole land matter package though. Fastbond, Tatyova, Gitrog, Azusa, Constant Mist, etc.
This is a 3-mana walker that produces ''able to attack'' tokens. It's a pretty rare effect, even on a [-] ability. The only barrier for cube I can see is the rough UW competition. Other than that, the card seems nuts. Also, I think must people underestimated the [+] ability. It can raise pretty fast and change the curse of the game, as the ultimate provide you the 3 best cards in your deck. In a fast UW tempo deck, I can see it ult as soon as turn 6 or 7 and not dying in the process. Pretty neat.
This card has nothing to do with Faithless Loothing. This doesn't mean its bad or anything, but but by no mean they are interchangle in a cube that care about graveyard's content. Might test, but not at the expanse of FL.
Misread the Mentor ability. Thought it could target the creature with the less power (ala Bolster), so I thought it was able to target himself. It's certainly less interesting if it cannot attack for 2 on T2.
I think most people are missing the actual point here. Isn't GB simply a 2-power one drop that can attack on T2 and then have upsides? Timing and stuff have so little to do here IMO.
We would rank it as a 4-drop. Spectacle is just an upside.
Yes it is. Criminally underplayed. This card is nuts with stuff like Rotation, KotR and Zuran Orb. We do run the whole land matter package though. Fastbond, Tatyova, Gitrog, Azusa, Constant Mist, etc.
Good point. Bob and Dismember (and even Vortex) will love him.
1x Jeweled Amulet
1x Mana Crypt
1x Mindslaver
1x Retrofitter Foundry
1x Scroll Rack
1x Sensei's Divining Top
1x Ponder
1x Time Walk
1x Timetwister
1x Daretti, Scrap Savant
1x Karn, Scion of Urza
1x Saheeli, the Gifted
1x Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1x Tezzeret, Artifice Master
1x Tezzeret the Seeker
1x Brainstorm
1x The Antiquities War
1x Arcbound Ravager
1x Hangarback Walker
1x Man-o'-War
1x Syndicate Trafficker
1x Trinket Mage
1x Walking Ballista
1x Ancient Tomb
6x Island
3x Mountain
1x Sulfurous Springs
3x Swamp
This deck featuring new Tezz (and pretty much all artifact matter planeswalkers) was pretty sick!
Wow this card seems really push! What do you guys think?
3x Noble Hierarch
1x Scavenging Ooze
4x Devoted Druid
4x Vizier of Remedies
2x Duskwatch Recruiter
4x Knight of the Reliquary
3x Spell Queller
2x Tireless Tracker
2x Eternal Witness
1x Walking Ballista
3x Chord of Calling
4x Collected Company
2x Retreat to Coralhelm
4x Misty Rainforest
1x Temple Garden
1x Breeding Pool
1x Hallowed Fountain
1x Stomping Ground
1x Horizon Canopy
2x Ghost Quarter
1x Kessig Wolf Run
1x Sejiri Steppe
1x Bojuka Bog
3x Forest
1x Plains
1x Courser of Kruphix
1x Eidolon of Rhetoric
1x Kataki, War's Wage
3x Path to Exile
1x Reclamation Sage
1x Scavenging Ooze
1x Shalai, Voice of Plenty
3x Unified Will
1x Voice of Resurgence
1x Worship
Some lists tend to run it recently at Grisly Salvage spot.