An absolute savior in casual multiplayer in recursion decks, control decks, mill decks, or decks that tend to stall out for a long time or draw too many cards but are too ineffective to use them. (I had a Pulse of the Tangle + Greater Good deck like that..)
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(7/15/2013 8:25:14 AM)
This card has given me many a life.
Posted By:
clippedin
(7/18/2013 8:42:22 PM)
Feldon's Cane just got replaced in y burn deck. :)
Posted By:
mr8658
(8/3/2013 1:47:08 PM)
@wern212 Elixir helps out a lot against graveyard-hate decks, especially in EDH. With cards like Rest in Peace, Tormod's Crypt, Bojuka Bog, and Relic of Progenitus, saving your graveyard plus the 5 life seems like a very good out to include. Also helps out late game when you're running out of answers in your deck. It's high rating now, however, is probably due to Scavenging Ooze's reprint in Standard. Though the card itself is more likely kept in sideboards.
Posted By:
SirDrak909
(8/9/2013 10:50:41 AM)
Wonderful art and flavor.
Got this at the M14 prerelease, in my first ever tournament.
Managed to win 2-1 in the first round, and then lost the rest.
Top-decked this twice with an Angelic Accord out,
in the last match. People gathered at the table were laughing,
whilst my opponent could only squirm. I almost apologized :)
Posted By:
Cloak_of_Mists
(8/12/2013 3:03:15 PM)
It's kind of amazing how back in the day, Feldon's Cane was considered an automatic 1-of in most decks (it was even restricted) and now we have something better and nobody even uses it. Probably the reason it doesn't see use is that there aren't really any mill decks commonly used in Standard right now. Jace, Memory Adept does see occasional use out of sideboard but blue almost universally prefers the Jace, Architect of Thought version for card advantage. I think that if Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver milled for 3 instead of exiled 3, this card might see some use.
Posted By:
Technetium
(10/31/2013 6:26:53 AM)
I personally think this should be 4 spaces in every sideboard simply because of the trollfaces that occur when this is used against a mill deck.
And the 5 life certainly helps.
I love how this card uses lifelink and graveyard recursion, generally not exceptionally playable things on their own, and combines them in a flavorful and mechanical perfection.
Posted By:
SirLibraryEater
(11/29/2013 7:16:21 PM)
A key component of my mono-green mill deck :)
Posted By:
konokono
(12/2/2013 8:57:58 PM)
Pretty picky, strategy-wise, but definite sideboard material nonetheless. Interesting to see how it'd go with Jace's Erasure.
Posted By:
Casimir_the_Great
(12/26/2013 9:24:34 PM)
A one-of in my Esper control deck. Since I'm only running one Ætherling and one Elspeth, Sun's Champion, this helps me if I somehow lose both of them. Plus, the lifegain has saved my bacon on multiple occasions. Not a 5/5 card, but at least a solid 4/5.
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