I found this card and was suprised to not see a thread up about it, as it seems like a fantastic enabler for spells matter in pauper, peasant and multiplayer cubes.
It seems to do a decent young pyromancer impression damage wise, trading the advantage of going straight to the face and avoiding combat for the downside of having no syngergy with tokens enablers like purphuros, anthems and sac outlets as well as not giving free chump blockers.
Lately the spells matter archtype has been getting a lot of nutty high cmc enablers like the new delver and bedlam reveler, but it feels like they all come down too late in the game to have sufficient impact. Do the advantages of low cmc and a decent defensive body make up for it's relatively low power level and narrow effect?
What are peoples thoughts on this card? It seems like does a semi reasonable young pyromancer immitation in terms of damage, just without all the synergy that YP has with things like Purphuros etc. The spells matter archtype keeps getting these nutty high cost enablers like the new delver and the devil with cost reduction that seem great but come down too late to make a reasonable impact in cubes. Is the low cost point enough to make up for its relatively low power level?
So I was looking at the new funtional erata on winter orb (and the interaction between it and icy/RoG) and thinking of restructuring my U/B section as a tezzeret (seeker and AoB) based artifact guild. With this in mind, what does of everyone think of Mask of Riddles?http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=179584
Turning any random creature into old buddy Finkel doesn't sound like the worst of deals for 2 mana equip and 2 up front, though the double colour cast cost does hurt a lot.
Confluence can only return permenants though. Also, with this card maybe returning a fetch land and/or a ramp spell it seems like the best of both worlds. Again, only in grindy matchups, but for a g/b or g/u deck the value on this card is super real.
http://i.imgur.com/VZ78q0z.jpg
Is it just me, or does this card seem like absolutely nutty value if a little slow. Granted it isn't a card that you want vs aggro, but it seems like it could win control and midrange matchups almost single handedly, getting back a few cards and almost always getting shuffled back in with the fetch/STE/rampant growth that it returns. Thoughts?
I found this card and was suprised to not see a thread up about it, as it seems like a fantastic enabler for spells matter in pauper, peasant and multiplayer cubes.
It seems to do a decent young pyromancer impression damage wise, trading the advantage of going straight to the face and avoiding combat for the downside of having no syngergy with tokens enablers like purphuros, anthems and sac outlets as well as not giving free chump blockers.
Lately the spells matter archtype has been getting a lot of nutty high cmc enablers like the new delver and bedlam reveler, but it feels like they all come down too late in the game to have sufficient impact. Do the advantages of low cmc and a decent defensive body make up for it's relatively low power level and narrow effect?
What are peoples thoughts on this card? It seems like does a semi reasonable young pyromancer immitation in terms of damage, just without all the synergy that YP has with things like Purphuros etc. The spells matter archtype keeps getting these nutty high cost enablers like the new delver and the devil with cost reduction that seem great but come down too late to make a reasonable impact in cubes. Is the low cost point enough to make up for its relatively low power level?
Turning any random creature into old buddy Finkel doesn't sound like the worst of deals for 2 mana equip and 2 up front, though the double colour cast cost does hurt a lot.
Is it just me, or does this card seem like absolutely nutty value if a little slow. Granted it isn't a card that you want vs aggro, but it seems like it could win control and midrange matchups almost single handedly, getting back a few cards and almost always getting shuffled back in with the fetch/STE/rampant growth that it returns. Thoughts?