Seems almost custom-made for the 250 format.
Posted By:
Kirbster
(12/18/2011 5:11:14 PM)
Eats faces in EDH if you build the right deck(say, Wizard Tribal with Lady Azami as the general). Yes, I will search for exactly the right answer to this specific problem, thank you!
Posted By:
Kelptic183
(12/18/2011 9:35:35 PM)
While I would love to throw this into my Damia, Sage of Stone EDH deck, I just don't think this thing could possibly stick around long enough to get to use it. Even if you've got a Consecrated Sphinx out, everyone else is going to try to blow this thing up before it gets to six counters. You would either have to be packing a hand full of counterspells and the mana to play them, or count on no one having enchantment removal. Well to be fair if you're drawing two cards a turn that may not be so hard to manage...
Once this thing gets going it's got to be nigh-impossible to stop, especially with the Sphinx. That's the kind of win condition I like. It can turn advantage into victory, compliments a deck rather than require you build around it, and takes strategy and skill to pull off.
Posted By:
Pinto331
(3/11/2012 4:15:43 AM)
I'd imagine this card could be good in a Damia, Sage of stone commander deck. I once made a G/U/B infect deck with her as the commander. Between the draw and proliferate this can go off in no time flat. Having said that using in in modern or legacy sounds like a horrible idea.
4/5 for Commander and Kitchen table awesomeness.
Posted By:
Winghsad0w
(4/3/2012 1:52:59 PM)
Would work fine in a "Draw Go" deck with Brainstorms and such. You really want to run this with Leyline of Anticipation to make drawing cards in your opponent's turn easier. Might work well with Flicker and Mulldrifter in a 187 style deck.
I wish mine had room for this. It's just.. the deck already runs well..
I think what scares people off is that 4 sounds fair while being attainable. 6 just sounds horrendous to achieve, especially while keeping your counterspells up and at-the-ready. Notice that this, unlike Bloodchief and Luminarch, doesn't get better in multiplayer.
Funny to note you can survive mill because you don't have to successfully search.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(3/4/2013 9:29:48 AM)
i want to put this in my jin gitaxis commander deck. instead of drawing seven cards a get to search my library for seven cards. lol
Posted By:
spartan7023
(4/3/2013 9:25:47 AM)
Nekusar is not only a lich but also an archmage.
Posted By:
Goatllama
(11/15/2013 8:04:01 AM)
I recently built a deck that is based around it, and I have encountered the same issues as Xelopheris. The easiest way that I've come across so far is to use Compulsion, Frantic Search, a series of cantripping counter/bounce (like Repeal or something), and Rhysitic Study.
Once you reach post-activation, your cantripping bounce become tutors. Because of all of that power, though, I never want to search for lands in longer games. Null Profusion would be an interesting addition, if I had any to try out. Playing the land would let you tutor for another card, so you never have to worry about wasting a tutor for searching up a land. Better yet, toss in a singleton Spellbook at any point to negate the maximum hand size restriction, and let your cantrips feed your hand size to your heart's content.
Posted By:
Kenji18
(3/12/2010 2:48:01 AM)
Given the introduction of proliferate, and the fact that Blue is quite good at proliferation, i'm going to give this card a 4. If you can counter it up fast, its crazy.
steady Progress is crazygood for this.
This is under the assumption you can proliferate quest counters.
Posted By:
franconbean
(6/8/2011 5:50:53 AM)
Obvious proliferate is obvious.
Moreover, he who rates this card low without considering Teferi's Puzzle Box and Mindmoil should be punished by game loss with Archmage Ascension as the central piece.
Posted By:
Falgorn
(1/7/2011 12:40:06 PM)