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For the most part, this is strictly better than Cancel. There ARE some decks that do want to use Cancel over this for specific reasons (opponent graveyard abuse, for example), but generally you want Dissipate just in they're packing some form of graveyard recursion, and this doesn't really compromise you when it offers that options.
Strictly better's a funny term though. Looming Shade is strictly better than Frozen Shade, but someone on the Necrogen Mist comments had a combo that relied on creatures having 0 power being the only ones that could attack.
So, basically, 'strictly better' can never really be truly applied for the most part, but generally there are a lot of cards - like this - where for the average user you'd prefer this version. We really need a new term for this.
Also, didn't realise this existed before Innistrad. Cool.
Posted By:
psychichobo
(11/26/2012 3:08:47 PM)
"Strictly better" is a plague that spreads between attention whores, the OCD, and the retarded.
Just quit it.
Btw, strictly better than Cancel LOL!!
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(7/23/2013 4:09:57 PM)
Come on people, this IS strictly better than Cancel!
"Strictly better" doesn't mean "strictly more powerful in any given situation", so the actual power of a card depends on the rest of my deck. But if card A suits better for my deck it doesn't mean that card B (that is actually "strictly better" than card A) is not "strictly better" than card A.
I would say something like this: "Dissipate is strictly better than Cancel, but if I play Surgical Extraction, in my deck I would put Cancel instead of Dissipate".
On the card:
I've always wondered why they didn't reprint this card before, like in the first Ravnica for counter these annoying Dredge cards... I've just bought a set of Innistrad edition of this card, forgetting for a while that an older version, with a better art (Richard Kane Ferguson, people!)already exists. Shame on me...
5/5
And for the 3CMC counterspell, with Cancel they wanted to set a standard for a "vanilla" counterspell, one... (see all)
Posted By:
leomistico
(2/4/2014 11:33:36 AM)