Everyone's looking at this wrong.
It's not to get your permanents back on the field, no. It's not to thin your graveyard. What it's here for is recurring extort.
Let's say you have about three extort triggers out on the field. It's late game, and your opponent is at just five health or something. The biggest creature you have is treasury thrull, but they can stop it pretty easily.
Nothing new is happening. Both of you have an empty hand size, and you aren't drawing into anything you can cast.
You should attack with your treasury thrull anyways.
Return some random card from your graveyard that died a long time ago, and recast it just for the extort.
This thing was built for Recurring Extort.
I just wish that it could target instants and sorceries also. Then again, that'd be close to a Regrowth.
Posted By:
Mistralis
(5/25/2013 11:09:00 AM)
Should have been called "Sun Titan 2 - Orzhov Bugaloo"
Look at all the THINGS you can do with this sucker and that includes our old Dead Weight Shenanigans...
Judge's Familiar for a counterspell
Scroll of Avacyn for card draw (& possible lifegain)
Scroll of Griselbrand for instant-speed discard(& possible life loss)
Glaring Spotlight for unblockable-ity
Traveler's Amulet for land drops
Soul Tithe & Stab Wound for Taxing/removal
Blazing Torch for a colorless Shock
Add this to the fact that you can use Heartless Summoning to get this guy out fast, it gets absurd, considering that for EACH of the above you can use for recurring extort triggers.
Posted By:
Vogie
(5/29/2013 1:13:56 PM)
You can make it bigger with blood rush... Wonder if it was a coincidence that this card was printed in the same set as blood rush and could be used to retrieve those cards after being used.
This is why you'd never want to be in debt to the Orzhov.
Posted By:
Kunia
(9/26/2013 7:10:41 PM)
This is somewhat better with Theros, given all the hybrid creature/enchantments out there, especially the Gods and their artifact weapons.
Posted By:
Kontrah
(10/8/2013 4:46:36 PM)