Whether or not it ends up being good remains to be seen, but Boros Charm alone is good enough to be worth considering it. Even though the self damage on Flame Rift is often irrelevant, being an instant is good enough to give the charm a significant edge. Also, has anyone tested a list yet that runs both? 8 2-drops that deal 4 would give the deck a lot of extra punch.
1. Are you in R/G?
2. Do you have good creatures?
3. Do you have any good creatures that you would like now?
You run this card when ANY of the target's you can get are good. In Naya they can go fetch Resto Angel, AoS, Thrag, Thundermaw(mostly in aggro I know) or Huntmaster. ANY of those cards would good to have in hand. When the low end of the three cards you want is still very good, there really isn't a drawback. Especially since the other two shuffle back in so you can redraw them.
I get this feeling that people are seeing the random pick clause and are mindlessly hating it without thinking analytically.
Unless you're already running 4 of all those creatures you'd be better off adding more of them instead of this. Very few decks will want to pay mana for a tutor that can't get specific targets.
Angels below four? I'm afraid that something like that cannot exist. Angels, demons and dragons are too iconic to make them below four mana. Although there are a couple of dragons below four, but those are more of an exception.
Boring? It's certainly not boring, especially if it can do something beside damage.
Ok so I should have 4x Smelt and 4x Tormod's Crypt in my sideboard? I can now do it with just the Charm and on top of that punish token and swarm decks. By no means is this the best charm but it is nowhere near bad either.
What else is your red black deck using sideboard slots for? Flexibility is important for maindeck cards, sideboard cards should have as much impact as possible in the matchup you're bringing them in for and every mode on this card is outclassed by something else.
Can everyone stop crying about whether it's fake or not? It's obviously real, the facts have been presented a thousand times in this thread alone. Can we PLEASE talk about how amazing this card is with geist of saint traft? Think: swing, use this spell when blockers are declared, get a permanent 4/4 angel token, get in for damage with your angel token, and your geist lives to see another day. Maybe this can help return delver to it's glory days!
Delver is a scary deck because of how flexible and efficient all their cards are. They have no interest in an expensive combat trick that requires a geist to not be underwhelming.
Pretty underwhelming. After 2 turns of charging there's no way you'll catch your opponent off guard and it's slow enough that you'll usually either be dead or staring down a finisher by the time this is live. If mono red was already a strong contender this might be playable just because the cost of including it is low, but I foresee this getting vapor snag'd more often than it finishes games.
Griselbrand was over the top and I'm not surprised to see it go.
I'm a little sad to see titan leave though. I feel like having a colorless powerhouse that punishes multicolor decks was good for the format. Without threats like sundering titan lurking in most decks there's less reason to play mono color decks when mana fixing is so prevalent, which may make deck building less varied in the long run.
Every time they update the banlist I'm surprised to see that sol ring isn't on it. The format has developed to the point where most decks are capable of doing degenerate things once they hit 4-5 mana and the ring is way too good at getting there with minimal effort. I've seen way more groans due to a turn 1 sol ring than sundering titan ever caused.
Serra Avatar feels like the perfect mythic card to me. It's an exciting open for casual players, old school fans are happy to see it back and it will never be a constructed staple.
The mistake I see people make the most with this guy is trying to play it in traditional aggro decks. Zoo and rdw play burn to finish the opponent after their early creatures have dealt most of the damage, running this guy out on turn 1 and them taking 4 is really bad for you because you just spent your first turn adding nothing to the board. The only real home for this guy is in burn, but there the option to be a creature is a significant drawback, no matter how efficient it would be in an aggro deck. 4 damage for 1 mana is nice, but past the first few turns I would much rather draw a lava spike or almost any other card in the deck because killing them is infinitely better than putting some dude without haste on the board. This guy will see play, but the majority of it will be in decks that have no business running him.
TLDR: worth considering in decks that really want more lava spikes, but bad in rdw, zoo and every other aggro deck.
Unless you're already running 4 of all those creatures you'd be better off adding more of them instead of this. Very few decks will want to pay mana for a tutor that can't get specific targets.
Serra Avenger
More importantly, now that you're 2 colors your manabase will make getting that extra turn tricky despite playing the most redundant deck in magic.
What else is your red black deck using sideboard slots for? Flexibility is important for maindeck cards, sideboard cards should have as much impact as possible in the matchup you're bringing them in for and every mode on this card is outclassed by something else.
Delver is a scary deck because of how flexible and efficient all their cards are. They have no interest in an expensive combat trick that requires a geist to not be underwhelming.
I'm a little sad to see titan leave though. I feel like having a colorless powerhouse that punishes multicolor decks was good for the format. Without threats like sundering titan lurking in most decks there's less reason to play mono color decks when mana fixing is so prevalent, which may make deck building less varied in the long run.
Every time they update the banlist I'm surprised to see that sol ring isn't on it. The format has developed to the point where most decks are capable of doing degenerate things once they hit 4-5 mana and the ring is way too good at getting there with minimal effort. I've seen way more groans due to a turn 1 sol ring than sundering titan ever caused.
TLDR: worth considering in decks that really want more lava spikes, but bad in rdw, zoo and every other aggro deck.