Awesome ability, amazing art, but very small stats. He doesnt do anything on Turn 6, he also lets your opponents know what card you are drawing. So there is no longer a surprise factor for you. But... you are getting Free spells at the cost of building a spell-oriented deck.
The risks and rewards are there but this isn't a limited card. This is a kitchen table card and should be treated as such.
I doubt this will see much play in standard due to its 2/4 stats. With Mizzium Mortars being in standard I see this guy being easily removed and a waste of 6 mana and a turn for yourself. You often wish that creatures with abilities like Melek are 1/5 instead of 2/4 because they really aren't going to be attacking, they are commanders and generals of your army not fighters. 2/5 rating because of that.
Posted By:
vantha
(5/2/2013 6:25:39 AM)
I'm extremely bothered by the rulings that are claiming you are allowed to play Lands off the top of your library. There's absolutely no reason to believe his rules text enables that. It doesn't even enable you to play cards, rather to cast them, and we all know Lands are not cast. This is absurd and must be an error, or else we're beginning an era of Magic in which rules are entirely inconsistent.
Wizards, rectify this. Thank you.
Posted By:
bowlofgumbo
(5/2/2013 8:54:36 AM)
Bowl, I believe that they did fix that. That was indeed a rather odd ruling. I don't see it there now.
Posted By:
Habreno
(5/2/2013 11:52:25 PM)
I love this card but they need to correct the rulings on it. Melek doesn't mention land on it but the rulings say you can play the top card if its a land. The judge at the prerelease I played in ruled based on these rulings that I could play the land but I still think that's incorrect.
Posted By:
talldarkandgrusome
(5/4/2013 10:50:34 AM)
It's the lab rat that got all the attention.
I think most Mizzium Mortars will be in Izzet decks and it's a crying shame that the Isochron Sceptre didn't make a return.
*Sniff*
Posted By:
Odee
(5/4/2013 4:31:27 PM)
@ marmaris74: Wait..land? I see it in the rulings..but not in the card. Did they just copy the Future Sight rulings and forget that one, or is Melek even more amazing than I already thought?
EDIT: They fixed it, it must have just been copy/pasted carelessly.
Posted By:
darkterrorblade
(5/5/2013 9:55:15 PM)
Solid Card. Super Johnny.
Also, fairly cheap to buy because people aren't using it in Standard.
Run with Nivmagus Elemental to exile anything you need (if you counterspell and only need one, for instance.) Helps you be more flexible.
I'm replacing Sphinx-Bone Wand as a finisher in a casual Nivix Cyclops deck.
Again, elegant design.
Posted By:
KvotheBloodless
(5/6/2013 10:42:48 PM)
Combo with Oracle of Mul Daya and Garruk's Horde just because.
Is there anything that lets you cast planeswalkers off the top of your library?
Posted By:
OrgasmandTea
(5/9/2013 5:33:49 PM)
Epic Experiment
Invoke the Firemind
Sleep
Spelltwine
Polymorph
Mana Geyser
Searing Song
Reforge the Soul
Can't wait to cast all of these a dozen times over in Melek EDH.
Posted By:
Hungerstriker
(5/13/2013 3:44:12 PM)
@ OrgasmAndTea, you could play Magus of the Future/Future Sight. It allows you to play any card (lands included) on the top of your library.
I was always wondering when they'd make a legendary Magus of the Future. And here it is, with less options to play, but the added "copy" ability stitched on.
And he's also a 2/4 vs. a 2/3. OMFG STRCTLEE BETR ROOROROROOLOOOWELROEOEFLAEWFL!!
Posted By:
Ferlord
(5/22/2013 10:08:50 AM)