Hard to evaluate, but I think Steve Man is probably right. These top end targets are better if it's something like Sundering Titan that also work well in the Sneak Attack an reanimator decks.
It might be a hot take, but personally I think this is better than Kari Zev, Eidolon or Dire Fleet Daredevil.
This can attack as a 3/1 haste for 2 which is exactly what red aggro wants to do, and in the right deck it shouldn't be hard to trigger the activation at least once a turn.
If you follow this up with a T3 Rabblemaster variant you can really go nuts because then you get two activations, which means it can add 6 power on turn 3. Seems good.
In a 360 powered Cube that supports reanimator (and contains current reanimate targets Inkwell Leviathan, Grave Titan, five 6+ mana value green cards, Atarka, Battlesphere, Wurmcoil, Sphinx of the Steel Wind & Sundering Titan):
1) Run both Griselbrand & Archon of Cruelty
OR
2) Only run one of them & add another midrange black creature
BONUS This or That:
If only running one...which one? Griselbrand/Archon of Cruelty
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I would definitely run both. I feel like these are the two best reanimator payoffs, so I'd always run them if reanimator is supported, even at 360.
Griselbrand is better though, so if only running one, Griselbrand.
This is definitely a cool / good card. But I think Laelia, the Blade Reforged and Light up the Stage are better / more mana efficient variations on this, so I don't think I'll add it at 360.
Cool card - I'm finding it a bit difficult to evaluate if it's actually better or worse than Monastery Swiftspear. My gut is telling me Swiftspear might still be a bit better, and that's my bubble 1 drop in red right now.
So I think I will just watch this one. I definitely prefer it over Rabbit Battery though, which I think is just too anemic / too mana inefficient.
Cool card! I do think Bonesplitter is the swap for me, since I don't think a 360 card cube wants two of these effects.
I think that on balance, weighing the downside and upside, it ends up only slightly better than Bonesplitter. However, it's a more interesting and more fun card, so I prefer it.
The ability to hit Lands / Planeswalkers / Artifacts / Enchantments is huge.
This is going to have 2x the number of valid targets that scavenging ooze would have.
That being said, I think this is a mid teir / fringe card, because it still just dies to removal and requires a lot of mana investment to get it beefy, which is inefficient compared to something that's just naturally big like Tarmogoyf.
I think Courser will probably be the cut for me to test this.
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It might be a hot take, but personally I think this is better than Kari Zev, Eidolon or Dire Fleet Daredevil.
This can attack as a 3/1 haste for 2 which is exactly what red aggro wants to do, and in the right deck it shouldn't be hard to trigger the activation at least once a turn.
If you follow this up with a T3 Rabblemaster variant you can really go nuts because then you get two activations, which means it can add 6 power on turn 3. Seems good.
I would definitely run both. I feel like these are the two best reanimator payoffs, so I'd always run them if reanimator is supported, even at 360.
Griselbrand is better though, so if only running one, Griselbrand.
So I think I will just watch this one. I definitely prefer it over Rabbit Battery though, which I think is just too anemic / too mana inefficient.
I think that on balance, weighing the downside and upside, it ends up only slightly better than Bonesplitter. However, it's a more interesting and more fun card, so I prefer it.
This is going to have 2x the number of valid targets that scavenging ooze would have.
That being said, I think this is a mid teir / fringe card, because it still just dies to removal and requires a lot of mana investment to get it beefy, which is inefficient compared to something that's just naturally big like Tarmogoyf.