The most interesting thing about this card is that he can target a land.
There are no lands in standard right now that interact with counters! (Excluding Mutavault shenanigans)
Posted By:
NickDay
(2/1/2014 4:11:15 PM)
"Hey guys, remember that one card from Eventide, Gilder Bairn?"
"No..."
"Great. I have an idea."
~excerpts from Dragon's Maze set development meeting
All jokes aside though, this guy's ridiculous in EDH. All of the storage-counter lands (Sand Silos, Rushwood Grove, Saprazzan Cove and the like) from Mercadian Masques immediately become the most ridiculous. Astral Cornucopia becomes even more crazy. Cold-Eye Selkie with some +1/+1 counters draws you your whole library. Sekki, Season's Guide doesn't die. Ever. Solarion gets even more double-counters.
I think my favorite combos in my version of the deck, however, has happened to me but once.
Imagine this:
I play Gyre Sage. The next turn, I follow up with Wall of Wood and Vorel of the Hull Clade. Gyre S... (see all)
Posted By:
SirLibraryEater
(2/5/2014 5:25:10 PM)
Use with Tangle Wire if you want to lose some friends.
Posted By:
deep_shadow
(2/10/2014 8:46:52 PM)
I've used this in a Simic deck that included this, a primordial hydra, a kalonian hydra, and a protean hydra. That worked well for a while, but I ended up using him in an infect deck later, so I could basically kill any creature that was infected. It's too bad that he can't target players though.
Posted By:
D1234
(2/16/2014 6:16:12 PM)
Hey guys! He levels up creatures!
Posted By:
IamjustnotCreative
(4/14/2014 6:33:19 PM)
Guys guys ready ima blow your mind( kalonian hydra+Vorel of the Hull Clade=losing friends)
Posted By:
mattcrowone
(4/15/2014 8:56:37 PM)
@yesennes
"If you find anyone still play with cumulative upkeep cards, they shall hate you."
Please do not be so hasty with conclusions. At example I play cards with cumulative upkeep in my EDH decks and because Hibernation's End and Braid of Fire can not be targeted, I would gladly help opponent with it and make them artifacts with help of Liquimetal Coating. Also Arctic Nishoba would not be bad to not pay its upkeep with 10+ age counters etc. There are more cumulative upkeep cards, which I would definitely not target with Vorel, if those cards would be on opponent's side.
In fact, in deck where I use those cumulative upkeep cards, I have also proliferate artifacts to be able to increase number of age counters on my cards, when situation for it is suitable.
Posted By:
spirit_of_blue
(5/17/2014 9:06:11 AM)