I wouldn't leave home without two copies of Whipflare in my side-board. Two copies of Ghirapur Aether Grid is another essential.
Your mileage may vary. You will have to tune for your environment.
I've been trying Ensnaring Bridge in the side-board. It's probably not a good idea, but it did work once for me. I don't play anything but FNM, and I don't play every week at that, and I have several decks that I play, so there isn't much opportunity for me to test.
What matchup is the Grid for?
It's an alternate win-condition against any deck that will bring in Stony Silence plus it works well against anything that runs tokens.
To transform on turn 3 you need: t1 fetch, thoughtscour. (4) T2 fetch, play this. (5) T3 any upkeep instant. The trigger is card 7. Admittedly, this does leave a land tapped so you can't tap for four which was the point of the experiment. So hope your opponent plays thoughtseize.
Or you cycle a Street Wraith or play a Mishra's Bauble or hit somebody with a Surgical Extraction. It's not as tough as one might think. Now, it may not transform until turn 4 or 5, but that means it'll be easier to Snapcaster Mage into something sooner or play other control cards. There's lots of good things this card can do by accelerating you a mana one turn early. I think control decks ought to play one, maybe two.
You know, Search for Azcanta is a pretty cool way for blue players to be on 4 lands by turn 3. Makes casting Cryptic Command more feasible early too kinda like land ramp for blue.
In all seriousness, I doubt the card can flip on Turn 3. It requires you tossing every card on the upkeep(what happens if you like the card), having fetchland + cantrip + potentially thought scour. This card will flip more on turn 4-5, I feel like. So, you become a mini combo deck and you waste your early game just to have a small ramp deck with a more expensive, nonland + non creature Impulse that can be Abrupt Decay'd and it's legendary.
Verdict: This card seems too slow and "do nothing" in today's meta, although I do like that the condition to flip is optional and that it can have great value in grindy games.
Yeah, but if all the stuff you're putting in the yard is cantrips, then you're still going to have a full grip plus be ahead on lands.
EDIT: And if they want to waste their Abrupt Decay on that rather than whatever your threat is, awesome. Let 'em.
How will canopy drop like $40 from this limited printing?
Check what happened to Daybreak Coronet. It lost like 80% of its value when one masters printing increased its supply from 'only printed as a future sight rare' to 'printed a second time in a masters product'.
Yeah, but that card is hardly used. Horizon Canopy sees play in Modern and Legacy. Not to mention Commander some too.
You know, Search for Azcanta is a pretty cool way for blue players to be on 4 lands by turn 3. Makes casting Cryptic Command more feasible early too kinda like land ramp for blue.
It's rising because the Masters series isn't meeting demand. Modern is growing rapidly and WotC isn't pushing out enough supply to keep the price steady.
aaand...someone has bought every single TCG Direct copy of Opt . I just wanted a playset for TiTi. oh well, they will be back. I hope whoever did it just paled in horror as they realized it's a common in Ixalan. May they lose their butt on this.
Same dude asking $5 for moderately played copy?
Why buy up the direct copies anyways? What's the benefit over say... then on-direct copies?
It's interesting how different opinions can be on what should be banned/unbanned.
I see zero chance of GSZ or Jace ever coming off.
Preordain also seems highly unlikely. Serum Visions and Sleight of Hand are as good as WotC wants to allow in terms of scry/draw type cards. The fact that Preordain was banned in MTGO Commander is a pretty strong clue. Ponder is definitely never coming off as well (duh).
SFM and BBE both should come off for a trial phase if nothing else. I have playsets of both ready to go...
I see us getting an Opt reprint before Preordain ever comes off the banned list.
Ha! I knew it! Good to see Opt back in the mix now.
Or when they play Ensnaring Bridge and you can't attack.
Low turnout for that one. Probably why there's such weird results.
More like Lotus Vale.
Or you cycle a Street Wraith or play a Mishra's Bauble or hit somebody with a Surgical Extraction. It's not as tough as one might think. Now, it may not transform until turn 4 or 5, but that means it'll be easier to Snapcaster Mage into something sooner or play other control cards. There's lots of good things this card can do by accelerating you a mana one turn early. I think control decks ought to play one, maybe two.
Yeah, but if all the stuff you're putting in the yard is cantrips, then you're still going to have a full grip plus be ahead on lands.
EDIT: And if they want to waste their Abrupt Decay on that rather than whatever your threat is, awesome. Let 'em.
Yeah, but that card is hardly used. Horizon Canopy sees play in Modern and Legacy. Not to mention Commander some too.
It'll be some, but not too much. $5 or so. Maybe $7-10 if this has a larger run.
Are you kidding? That's can't be right. Lightning Bolt is red's most iconic spell!
It's a common. They're going to be everywhere.
Ha! I knew it! Good to see Opt back in the mix now.