Insult sounds win-moreish to me.
Injury I could see having some merit as the card is a viable discard target, but how much weight does a sorcery speed Lunge pull when behind?
Has anyone updated this archetype with any of the embalm creatures from Amonkhet?: Vizier of Many Faces and Heart-Piercer Manticore.
Heart-Piercer Manticore looks to provide the deck with some extra reach, but the embalm cost (5R) seems a bit high for what will usually amount to 3 damage. I have noted that in playing this deck, I am finding that I am often capping myself at 5 lands in order to feed the Stitchwing activations (using land cards in-hand to power those activations) while 5 mana also maintains the capability to activate Wandering Fumarole. The 3-toughness does seem a bit weak to Mardu, and I don't think that the 4-power puts enough pressure on Aetherworks Marvel or B/G Delirium.
Vizier of Many Faces has a much more appealing embalm cost (3UU), but there aren't many creatures for which a copy makes this cost efficient. It would be nice to copy Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, but I think that this is a losing race as you don't gain the advantage of the cast trigger to exile two permanents, and you are always behind by one attack. Similarly, one does not get the advantage of the cast triggers on Elder Deep-Fiend. Another good target would be Torrential Gearhulk, but there are not many appealing graveyard targets apart from Fiery Temper.
As I mentioned previously, Embalm doesn't trigger Prized Amalgam which means that we have to then look at the value of the creature itself, and I don't think any of the embalm guys make the cut considering how hard they are on the mana. Another thing to note is that the embalmed sides have no mana cost, which makes them pretty poor Emerge targets for Elder Deep-Fiend.
Oh, and Emblam is sorcery speed, blegh.
Pull from Tomorrow is about the only thing I've considered looking at, myself. I like being able to dig deep late-game, and instant speed makes it nice for those turns where the board has stalled or is empty. Though I reckon it's a tad slow, if you have any Tormenting Voice in the deck, I'd cut them for this.
It's a shame the wording on Embalm means that it doesn't trigger Amalgam, otherwise I would've considered Vizier of Many Faces.
Meh these seem okay in EDH. I'm kinda surprised they didn't do the check lands from BFZ, would have completed that cycle, no pun intended.
Wizards likes to flip-flop between printing Enemy and Allied cycles to keep things relatively balanced, the last cycle we got were enemy coloured. Maybe they'll finish the BFZ cycle in Hour of Devestation?
Mildly confused by your statement, but Panharmonicon doesn't interact with this at all.
I'm done with EDH now, not that I was particularly enjoying it before.
Injury I could see having some merit as the card is a viable discard target, but how much weight does a sorcery speed Lunge pull when behind?
As I mentioned previously, Embalm doesn't trigger Prized Amalgam which means that we have to then look at the value of the creature itself, and I don't think any of the embalm guys make the cut considering how hard they are on the mana. Another thing to note is that the embalmed sides have no mana cost, which makes them pretty poor Emerge targets for Elder Deep-Fiend.
Oh, and Emblam is sorcery speed, blegh.
It's a shame the wording on Embalm means that it doesn't trigger Amalgam, otherwise I would've considered Vizier of Many Faces.
Wizards likes to flip-flop between printing Enemy and Allied cycles to keep things relatively balanced, the last cycle we got were enemy coloured. Maybe they'll finish the BFZ cycle in Hour of Devestation?
This seems like a HUGE error.
It still reminds you of the Modern metagames been and gone. Which is more than can be said for something like Seance or most of MM15s rares.
I'm pretty sure they both peaked at the $2-5 range. Emissary moreso.
Meh.