I think you could use Harmonic Sliver to draw people to Sliver Queen. If Mana Echoes is the kind of high-power combo you want this will at least offer some more interactive plays with the queen.
Sometimes I use Sliver Queen as general for 5 color decks that are not sliver decks but I still include Harmonic and Necrotic Sliver for the answer engines they create.
"dies to removal" is kind of a funny running-joke in magic. Anyone with some perspective understands that it isn't exactly a good belief to hold but there is always some truth to it.
"it dies to Jester's Cap" is actually one of the dumbest things any magic player could possibly say when evaluating a card. I hope that you are still new to the game and that that card is one of the very few you are familiar with so far.
Well, I know a lot of Gx decks that will not just rush this guy out there, but my Kamahl deck will need a copy to swap out... Indrink Stomphowler I guess. 1 mana more for an additional "Why the hell not?"
I do share your concern though. People don't seem to get how devastating an effect can be when attached to a creature - even a lowly 0/0 without the pump would make me cringe here at 6 mana.
Omniscience did create a Legacy deck, so I don't think that counts as an EDH/Casual card.
Now for the card. It seems very, very good.
It wasn't designed for legacy. And it is the perfect example for why wotc shouldn't try so hard to make big splashy cards. They risk overdoing it and ruining things. Omniscience isn't so strong that it did that but it comes very close.
Great, not DeadEye.dec gets Austere Command for 2 mana
Pretty sweet card though. 6 to wipe the board of the most important permanents in my meta isn't too bad and a body is always nice (Fattest Garruk, Lurking Predators, Chord of Calling, etc love this guy).
Green did not need this. It's ****ing brutal, an auto-include in almost any mono-green deck, and it takes no skill or thought to play.
I don't think wotc is being very responsible with their cards designed for edh/casual. Omniscience, Enter the Infinite, G-wave, and all have been getting worse and worse but this is definitely the next step.
Tapping enchantments has no effect though, right? I learned to play when you could tap an artifact with a static effect and turn it off, so I'm kind of still in that mindset
There are all kinds of weird interactions that can care about it. Some enchantments even have tap abilities of their own. It's less useful than most other permanent types but I'd say tapping/untapping enchantments is still much more useful than tapping planeswalkers.
Sometimes I use Sliver Queen as general for 5 color decks that are not sliver decks but I still include Harmonic and Necrotic Sliver for the answer engines they create.
nope it cannot. Neither of them can block the other.
Not anymore it doesn't. The whole point of his post was that Power Surge no longer does anything because of the new mana burn rules.
Geist be damned, we need something that can't even be blocked or stopped by creatures. Make every game a race.
Thanks wotc!
I guess they showed us all the best/interesting ones first :/
"dies to removal" is kind of a funny running-joke in magic. Anyone with some perspective understands that it isn't exactly a good belief to hold but there is always some truth to it.
"it dies to Jester's Cap" is actually one of the dumbest things any magic player could possibly say when evaluating a card. I hope that you are still new to the game and that that card is one of the very few you are familiar with so far.
I'll feel better only if Deadeye gets banned :/
It wasn't designed for legacy. And it is the perfect example for why wotc shouldn't try so hard to make big splashy cards. They risk overdoing it and ruining things. Omniscience isn't so strong that it did that but it comes very close.
Green did not need this. It's ****ing brutal, an auto-include in almost any mono-green deck, and it takes no skill or thought to play.
I don't think wotc is being very responsible with their cards designed for edh/casual. Omniscience, Enter the Infinite, G-wave, and all have been getting worse and worse but this is definitely the next step.
We knew you well.
There are all kinds of weird interactions that can care about it. Some enchantments even have tap abilities of their own. It's less useful than most other permanent types but I'd say tapping/untapping enchantments is still much more useful than tapping planeswalkers.
He can tap or untap target permanent, including enchantments.