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Skyshroud Cutter belongs in formats where the ratio of teammates to opponents is 1:1 or better. Whereas Invigorate's alternate cost can only hit an oppo, the Cutter (who just wants some attention) gives to each other player.

ps everytime I look at the art for cut-thing, I feel like searching for Ah-nuld in the background.

GET TO ZEH CHOPPAH!!!
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Posted By: sdfkjgh (6/17/2011 10:11:02 PM)
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Invigorate: Lifting Wumpus' since 1999.
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Posted By: boneclub (7/16/2011 2:23:36 PM)
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Invigorate and Skyshroud Cutter go well with Punishing fire.
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Posted By: Cyberium (3/27/2012 4:54:48 PM)
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This card's alternate cost is great. Despite being tapped out, your creature can flatten a once-threatening blocker. The life gain is negligable, especially considering your still-living creature will be likely to make up the difference in short order.

Worst case scenario, it can also give that one extra point of damage to an unblocked attacker for free.
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Posted By: Kirbster (12/1/2010 8:53:39 PM)
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Aaron’s Random Card Comment of the Day #43, 12/1/10

“Now I am finally strong enough to lift a wumpus!”
--Mercadian dryad

Of the six Dryads in Mercadian Masques, the highest power is 2. Even with +4/+4, they’d only be 6/6 themselves, the same size as a Hunted Wumpus. Can you lift something over your head that’s the same size as you?

Anyway…

Many of the “free spells” in Mercadian Masques are well made. Gush is write-a-book-about-it powerful in Vintage, but that’s cool. Unmask has seen tons of play across many formats. And this card, Invigorate, does a bunch of neat stuff:

* It acts as a free combat trick or counter to toughness-based removal.
* It combines cleverly with anti-life gain cards like False Cure, Kavu Predator, and Sulfuric Vortex.
* It can be used politically in multiplayer games.
* It works really amazingly with... (see all)
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Posted By: Aaron_Forsythe (12/1/2010 9:32:49 PM)
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Then just throw on a Berserk and call it a day :)
Oh. And infect. Cool story, huh?
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Posted By: izzet_guild_mage (10/7/2010 10:44:31 PM)
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Invigorate is such a strong combat trick, not just with Kavu Predator. Thumbs up!
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Posted By: holgir (8/6/2009 2:46:46 AM)
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I agree, but the Kavu Predator combo is just sick. If you manage to cast, say, two of these early and take an opposing creature down in the process, most opponents are pretty much dead.
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Posted By: GrimjawxRULES (10/9/2009 9:02:24 AM)
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Quite good with infect.
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Posted By: GainsBanding (4/23/2011 3:23:10 AM)
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I liked the Dryads as a tribe, I wish they'd come back.
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Posted By: willpell (6/5/2011 3:22:28 AM)
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Invigorate and Skyshroud Cutter go well with Punishing fire.
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Posted By: Cyberium (3/27/2012 4:54:48 PM)
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Invigorate: Lifting Wumpus' since 1999.
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Posted By: boneclub (7/16/2011 2:23:36 PM)
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Skyshroud Cutter belongs in formats where the ratio of teammates to opponents is 1:1 or better. Whereas Invigorate's alternate cost can only hit an oppo, the Cutter (who just wants some attention) gives to each other player.

ps everytime I look at the art for cut-thing, I feel like searching for Ah-nuld in the background.

GET TO ZEH CHOPPAH!!!
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Posted By: sdfkjgh (6/17/2011 10:11:02 PM)
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Nagle isnt gonna look at this but ive died in many multiplayer games from skyshroud cutter being dropped with flash while under attack from kavu predator.
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Posted By: NastySasquatch (6/17/2011 9:29:40 AM)
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I used to love this card, but it totally screwed over our Peasant metagame. It's interaction with infect is absurd and shouldn't, in any way, be described as fun. The life-gain is completely irrelevant, which means you just get smacked to death before you can blink your eyes, courtesy of a turn 1 infect creature and a flurry of turn 2 pump spells.
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I liked the Dryads as a tribe, I wish they'd come back.
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Posted By: willpell (6/5/2011 3:22:28 AM)
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Quite good with infect.
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Posted By: GainsBanding (4/23/2011 3:23:10 AM)
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@Aaron: If new players overvalue life and undervalue mana efficiency, they shouldn't mind paying an extra 2 over Giant Growth for another point of damage!

I think what you're really saying is that the APC somehow makes this less appealing than a "vanilla" 2Green +4/+4.
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Posted By: HuntingDrake (12/1/2010 10:55:35 PM)
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I ran this in my "Fastest Stompy Deck Ever" that I would use to turn 3 kill people in Multiplayer that were mean to me last game. Invigorate did lots of that heavy-lifting. However, I discovered that Skyshroud Cutter is the worst 0-drop ever in multiplayer. Invigorate and Skyshroud Cutter have different mechanics! Invigorate gives ONE opponent life, Skyshroud Cutter gives EACH OTHER PLAYER life.

I played that deck for over a year before noticing that. It made me so angry. The slight change in the mechanic punished me, the player that had already compartmentalized "giving an opponent life as an alternate cost." I make sure that we don't have a "Skyshroud Cutter incident" in Magic sets I work on.
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Posted By: WotC_KennethNagle (12/1/2010 9:48:30 PM)
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