Gisela was so good but she is outclassed by Aurelia, the Warleader. The comparisons are fair because both allow the team to deal double damage but Gisela can half the damage you receive while Aurelia can attack the turn she comes into play and has Vigilance. Its a tough call but Aurelia beats out Gisela by 1 turn and has Haste. So Aurelia is capable of 6 damage by her lonesome on turn 6, while Gisela has to wait till turn 7 to deal 10 damage, whereas turn 7 Aurelia will have deal 12 damage, the comparison favors Aurelia and her A-team.
Posted By:
vantha
(1/31/2013 11:06:26 AM)
Now of course every aggro player loves Gisela. So I just want to point out she makes Little Girl do one damage, no matter who is running her.
Posted By:
Edword23
(7/2/2012 9:30:07 PM)
Equip with 4x Inquisitor's Flail. Proceed to take out your calculator.
Posted By:
j_mindfingerpainter
(5/1/2012 4:14:06 PM)
What I love about Gisela is that she feels a LOT like Teferi. Not so much in the sense of the effects, but more so on their effect on the game. Not only do they give you a distinct advantage over your opponent, but they also create an equally proportional disadvantage for the opponent. Is it exactly fair? Not necessarily, but it's not broken, and that's why Gisela and Teferi are mythic. Cards like Gisela and Teferi define what a mythic should be—not completely broken, but enough to give you that necessary upper hand.
Posted By:
rogelio
(5/28/2012 11:14:42 PM)
She is an amazing card but just way too broken. My friend has an EDH deck of her and I hate playing against it because of how utterly broken this card is. It's cards like this that have the potential of ruining the fun of Magic.
Posted By:
phabio357
(6/4/2012 6:56:17 PM)
I feel like this could have been Urabrask the Hidden's abilities. Haste and anti-haste is neat, but this is pretty killer.
Posted By:
EyeballFrog
(6/8/2012 3:17:21 AM)
This is the most powerful of Avacyn, Angel of Hope's flunkies in standard. Sigarda will do the best in eternal formats (at least as an anti-Emrakul SB choice). You cast her, and then if you live to untap her, you've probably won.
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(4/30/2012 10:37:45 AM)
Will be hilarious in Commander. This is what Razia, Boros Archangel should have been.
Posted By:
Trygon_Predator
(4/26/2012 7:32:26 PM)
A great card for casual. Big, splashy, game-changing, but not broken because creature destruction is an easy answer and it's not too powerful for it's cost, unlike a certain 5-mana angel.
I'd be pretty doubtful of this seeing play in constructed though. It's not strong or resilient enough to justify putting into a ramp deck (which would be off colour anyway). In reanimators you play relatively few other decent creatures except perhaps ramp creatures, so it takes her to use her doubling/halving abilities to its fullest which will take an extra turn. She's easily shot down because the opponent probably hasn't had a lot of opportunity to use their creature destruction. Unlike Elesh, she doesn't have an immediate effect on hitting the table - Elesh sweeps their x/2s and x/1s and if she doesn't die straight away your little guys can charge in and do some decent damage, whereas Gisela doesn't work as well with your little guys.
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Posted By:
djflo
(4/27/2012 7:03:41 PM)
Insta-table-flip
Posted By:
steinburger1109
(4/28/2012 8:22:47 PM)