Elspeth looks all grown-up now...lol, I used her in the prerelease, just alternating between her first two abilities.
Posted By:
Arachibutyrophobia
(9/25/2010 9:53:08 PM)
She's better than Koth and Venser, not sure why she's rated lower than the other two fellows. She's the most versatile and just overpowers many types of decks.
Posted By:
Richard_Hawk
(9/27/2010 11:37:42 PM)
This card made me quite happy for my WGR Saproling's deck, seeing as my only other option is good 'ol reliable Hour of Reckoning.
By turn five my Selesnya Evangel's have already begun producing, as with my Jund Battlemage's, Life and Limb was played turn four and she's ready to gain me around 6-8 life~ Very nice indeed~!
And I'm getting rather annoyed reading through comments on Planeswalkers, trying to find tips or other help, and hearing over and over how, "Mythic rares ruined magic" from people like oj48 or Oleander. My best, and by far favorite, deck in casual is my straight up red burn. Mythics? Nope. I have two rares, one copy of each. Pyromancer Ascension and Furnace of Rath. Mythics? No, my deck works fine without. Uncommon's and Common's are the bulk of my deck, and guess what? My deck works just fine. It's the most powerful one, in my friends ... (see all)
Posted By:
SunshineTheBlond
(12/13/2010 12:38:35 PM)
Broken. Again. She is blasting everyone in 2 turn and still has a counter. And her ultimate isn't day of judgment, it is token protecting planar cleansing.
Posted By:
Frozenwings
(9/23/2010 6:34:17 PM)
That token protection is going to be game-breaking mid-game. Mix that with some of the equipment in this deck (Darksteel Axe) on a token and now you've instantly turned the tides.
Posted By:
BadProgram
(9/25/2010 4:04:29 PM)
Wondering if this card is gonna improve my knight deck, with knight exemplar's indestructibility. However, bunch of good knights are leaving standard while only kemba skyguard which isn't too great gets added in addition. It's gonna solve some matchup problems involving opponent's planeswalkers with ultimate. Minor setback is that it's gonna destroy honor of the pure and contests 5 cmc spot with baneslayer angel because there isn't a solid flying knight with alternatives being cloud crusader and kemba skyguard.
Amazing card with any token deck especially green-white token deck possibly with Garruk although her ultimate will kill it. But if you can get Garruk overrun or overwhelming stampede and elspeth ulti on same turn, there isn't much that's gonna keep opposing player alive unless they have stuff like safe passage or they're also running token deck and such. With green's mana acceleration there shouldn't be much trouble getting elspeth out rather early.
Could be good in UW co... (see all)
Posted By:
MTGGameHero
(9/26/2010 10:44:06 PM)
Her ultimate is based on planar cleansing. I think her ability is more flavorful for white though, letting tokens survive.
Posted By:
lorendorky
(9/24/2010 12:51:27 AM)
this is THE perfect card for any token deck ever made.
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(9/26/2010 1:31:25 PM)
Indeed. Day of Judgement has nothing on her third ability.
Posted By:
Wraique
(9/23/2010 8:31:14 PM)
i got her in ther first SOM booster pack i opened :)
I like this version of Elspeth better since her ultimatum will win games.
her -2 for three 1/1 tokens is very good too.
i like playing her with Conqueror's Pledge and Nomad's Assembly for an army of tokens.
but i can splash green for Bestial Menace and Garruk, also Ajani Goldmane wiil be good too.
i can go blue/white to protect my tokens with counter spell :) and instead of playing Jace TMS i can play Jace Beleren since he will die anyways with Elspeth Tirel ultimatum. i can also use Venser, the Sojourner in two different ways. the unblockable ability for my army, or the exile and bring back ability for Elspeth to restore her loyalty counters :)
Posted By:
nineyears
(9/30/2010 12:45:04 PM)