Heavy-handed high-power chase Mythic Rares. Sure feels like Lotus Cobra up in here.
Cards like this are fantastically great, and also run for about 30 bucks a pop because screw budget, we don't make mythics for flavor and awe, we do it for the cold, hard, cash because we were afraid that everybody wasn't going to buy a fat pack.
Then again that's just my rant. I know I'll never be able to afford it, because when they make a card that is deemed necessary to "balance out the viable decks" and they make it mythic is makes me cringe.
Posted By:
ChttrBox88
(4/23/2013 6:49:49 PM)
People who seem to have no experience playing with control decks at all are weighing in on why they think this card "aint so bad" for control. Apparently control players should stop whining about a card that singlehandedly destroys their entire deck.
So let me explain why VoR is so terrible for standard (and magic as a whole).
1. The only counter spells fast enough to jump in VoR's way are Syncopate, Essence Scatter and Spell Rupture. In order to counter VoR in your opponents opening hand, YOU MUST PLAY FIRST. This is a) not always possible and b) disadvantages the control deck before the game has even begun.
2. If VoR is on the field, your choice is never to counter another spell or be immediately overrun by X/X tokens. As a result, an active VoR blanks every single counter spell in your opponents deck. VoR is a terrible card for control because IT HAS TO BE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY, but its nearly impossible to deal with without losing card advantage.
3. PoF is the only card that 1... (see all)
Posted By:
Gako
(8/16/2013 2:59:16 PM)
Some kind of Naya burn deck featuring this and Young Pyromancer could be something to think about.
Posted By:
ehotonic
(7/14/2013 5:27:13 PM)
What a dumbly undercosted Mythic abortion of a card.
Posted By:
Fenix.
(4/25/2013 12:39:24 PM)
The problem with this card is that it is in many ways the new Baneslayer Angel: it's an automatic inclusion into any deck that can support it because it's overpowered proportional to its cost, and it takes no skill to use but takes skill to beat. Even if my opponent plays this and I dreadbore it on my next turn, I'm still down a kill spell and my opponent has a Crusader of Odric that can be populated on turn two. And if I don't immediately kill it, it can dominate the whole game, something a two drop shouldn't be able to do.
I have to admit though, I do like the art.
Posted By:
Skeletextman
(4/25/2013 9:22:07 PM)
"Dude, remember Geist-Honored Monk?"
"Yeah?"
"What if the tokens it made were other Geist-Honored Monks?"
"That sounds pretty cool."
"And what if it could make them over and over by itself?"
"...Dude..."
And, with a little adjustment so it wouldn't be totally batshit insane, this card was born.
Posted By:
Totema
(4/23/2013 5:07:33 PM)
And here we have the Selesnya guild champion. It's quite impressive!
Wait, what's that about a last-minute change?
Posted By:
SyntheticDreamer
(4/24/2013 8:13:11 PM)
I hereby call this Broken as ***.
Posted By:
Lueseto
(4/23/2013 7:42:08 PM)
Congratulations! Your Great Sable Stag evolved into Voice of Resurgence.
Posted By:
ChaSiuBao
(4/25/2013 9:04:07 PM)
Is that the Great Forest Spirit from Princess Mononoke?
Posted By:
Jedijoe
(5/6/2013 9:56:10 PM)