I mean at some point punisher cards are good enough, while I don’t believe this one is I’d love to hear testing from people who try it out, as I believe flashback on browbeat makes the card extremely better. Vexing devil is still a cubeable punisher care imo, so I don’t think it’s imposssible for punishers to be good.
Yes but red is the most common aggressive color and it has a hard time killing him.
I think the whole point is red won’t have to, they can just kill its controller, and I agree this thing against aggro seems pretty bad, it’s sbility being pretty bad, though still possibly game winning in that matchup. Bane skater actually does really well in that same situation, providing 10 life swings each turn cycle. This card could end up being nuts, but I really doubt it, I think I still prefer custodi lich.
Best card in the set for my cube. Torch fiend is still playable, if boring, and artifact removal on an otherwise good creature is nice. That and the added bonus of randomly hosing cards red can have trouble with, ugin, eldrazi, this redefined flexibility. I think this will stay in for a while.
Yeah I was afraid they were going to play it that safe. I suppose there's room for something more interesting at rare. Maybe a Char with Jumpstart for 2RR?
Jesus, just compare the burn spell they printed to Staggershock:
Staggershock is easier to cast at 2R instead of 1RR
Staggershock gives you the second cast for free
Staggershock is an instant
Staggershock does not require you to discard a card for the second cast
I mean, there are a few small advantages to this card over Staggershock (you can use both casts in one turn to kill a 4-toughness creature, countering the first spell doesn't stop the second spell from being cast) but just WOW it pales in comparison.
Yeah the jumpstart shock and the jumpstart draw 1 are both garbage. The clone effect is also pretty bad.
I'm struggling to think what we could possibly get at jump start now that's playable. Not gonna be a 2U draw 2, if that would even be cubable, not gonna be playable burn (now we know 3 damage or instant has to be 4 mana), any counter would probably be 2UU or UUU, whereas a 1UU might be interesting for testing, there's not that many more cubable effects at instant and sorcery in red and blue that could reasonably have decent jumpstart costs. Even a U unsummon, which they wouldn't print, would be borderline I think. Unless they print Jumpstart Mage at 1R 2/1 flash (or some insanely undercosted "all your spells have jumpstart" dude or enchantment, which I never see them printing), I don't think this keyword is making it in. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not hopeful.
To be fair to the new card, staggershock was a good card in a high power level format. I think that card is much better than people are giving it credit for, for example it’s still great in limited.
Surprised there wasn’t a thread for this card, a bad boomerang that steals equipments and enchantmenTVs can have a really high BCS. I’m going to try this card out and see how it does. Gaining control of the equipment can be a deathknell for some decks.
Did you mean to make that an 0/5? A fifth point of toughness is huge for a cantrip wall 2-drop, and I don't feel like the black one should be the objectively strongest one.
Baral and the pirate were equal in my mind until I looked at my blue section, its just so hard to fit a card into blue unless it's absolutely broken...
Love the list, super glad aha I didn't show up for just being a planeswalker. Is it weird I would think about the duel deck tezzeret as near the top twenty?
Reds two drops are worse than blacks, emphasized by our continual bombardment of black 2 drop staples. Seriously relentless dead has already left most cubes.
I might be weird but "token decks" are doing just fine without much support. I don't feel a huge need to give them tools only they can use, just don't have the slots.
Needs to live through an attack to draw one card. So it's draw trigger is more like... blood scrivener than bob. I feel like menace has to be the main draw of this card... which to be fair it does work on, the devil from return to innistrad. <- that's the best comparison.
I think the whole point is red won’t have to, they can just kill its controller, and I agree this thing against aggro seems pretty bad, it’s sbility being pretty bad, though still possibly game winning in that matchup. Bane skater actually does really well in that same situation, providing 10 life swings each turn cycle. This card could end up being nuts, but I really doubt it, I think I still prefer custodi lich.
Um...
I agree with most of your post though.
To be fair to the new card, staggershock was a good card in a high power level format. I think that card is much better than people are giving it credit for, for example it’s still great in limited.
Love the list, super glad aha I didn't show up for just being a planeswalker. Is it weird I would think about the duel deck tezzeret as near the top twenty?