I guess this one will go nicely in my mono white Tempered Steel deck. I get to draw two cards AND put another +1/+1 counter on each of my creatures thanks to Steel Overseer and Ajani Goldmane. All this for three colorless mana!
This card will fit nicely in any deck that doesn't care about it's own life total that much (aggro anyone?) and could use some more cards and has some use for proliferate.
Posted By:
TheRiver
(5/23/2011 1:48:03 PM)
Gam-bit: /'gambit/ Noun:
-(in chess) An opening in which a player makes a sacrifice, typically of a pawn, for the sake of some compensating advantage.
-A device, action, or opening remark, typically one entailing a degree of risk, that is calculated to gain an advantage.
I think the latter definition is more suitable in this case, card draw in any colour (assuming you're always willing to pay the 2 life) is astounding. The fact that its {3} for 3 effects (2 cards + 1 proliferate) is icing on the cake.
Posted By:
tcollins
(5/25/2011 1:00:35 AM)
Sign in Blood for 3 instead of BB. The proliferation is just gravy.
Posted By:
Studoku
(6/2/2011 10:50:36 AM)
@scumbling, you're right about this card and wrong about Browbeat.
BTW, with Chandra, the Firebrand this goes from "good" to "Would you like to concede now?"
BTW, is it just me or is this card harder to come across than many rares out there???
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(7/27/2011 5:04:26 PM)
Chandra, The Firebrand
Who said card-drawing was for blue?
Posted By:
Artan
(8/23/2011 6:20:18 PM)
Best use of this card: kept in binder where I was going to put Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas, because the dude looks awesome. Cost of buying Agent of Bolas for the art: something like $8, meh. Cost of this card, with the same cool arm thing going on: negligible, got a copy in a pack! :)
Cool art >> all. I don't even mind if this never sees play.
Heck, I don't even mind that I have no understanding of what Tezzeret's "gambit" actually is -- a gambit is a chancy strategy you employ to accomplish a particular task, which I guess is "get past the guard people or whoever it is walking by, unnoticed" -- how drawing cards or proliferating helps with that, I'm not sure... so ok, the flavor of this card is a little "orange mint lavender hibiscus whatever" incoherent. It's a mess. It has a guy with an electrified glowing pink arm and torso attempting to be sneaky on it. Art trumps all!
Posted By:
Salient
(8/26/2011 8:50:04 PM)
I enjoy the Proliferate Mechanic.
I enjoy drawing cards.
I just enjoy this card overall.
Posted By:
made4ipod
(9/11/2011 11:17:43 AM)
I like to think of this as Tezzeret's Planeswalker Signature Spell.
Posted By:
Vedalken_Arbiter
(10/12/2011 6:07:55 PM)
A great replacement to Foresee in Standard, instead of having to stick with Divination. Perfect for infect control.
Posted By:
Philosophy
(10/16/2011 3:04:42 PM)
I think cutting yourself for 2 to give your opponent another poison counter is about an equal trade
Posted By:
shotoku64
(11/27/2011 10:36:43 PM)