Best 1-mana instant in the game? Now, this is amazing, but it is nowhere near that honorific.
Lighning Bolt, Dark Ritual, Ancestral Recall, Swords to Plowshares, Entomb, Path to Exile, Vampiric Tutor, Berserk, and High Tide all have it beat. And there are probably many more which are superior in some people's opinions, but it would be very difficult to deny that the instants on that list are all worse than this card.
Posted By:
Sabisent
(7/11/2013 9:50:28 AM)
Well then...between this, Celestial Flare, Smite, Renounce the Guilds, and of course their many creatures, I think mono white might be about to make a HUGE comeback.
Posted By:
JRE47
(7/11/2013 10:23:58 PM)
And suddenly we have two powerful, cheap cards in standard that can be abbreviated with the same letters (Burning-Tree Emissary). Won't be confusing at all.
Posted By:
steev
(7/12/2013 9:54:22 PM)
Standard white weenie, here I come!
Posted By:
rollinsclone
(7/13/2013 4:11:34 PM)
Doesn't protect against mass destroy effects, just targeted ones! Still very good card.
Posted By:
TowerDefender
(7/25/2013 10:59:30 AM)
@SirLibrary white has always been the best at Protection, so rather than being indicative of some color imbalance this is tastefully where it belongs. Strong and versatile but not overpowered or out of place, respectfully disagreeing with basically everything you said <3
Posted By:
bowlofgumbo
(8/27/2013 11:41:03 AM)
@jimmynoobplayer It only protects against mizzium mortars' single target option, not the overload, and it does not protect against anger of the gods.
Posted By:
cobaltblue
(10/17/2013 11:50:26 AM)
@cobaltblue Actually, it still protects from those cards. They don't target but they still do damage, which protection from red would prevent in those cases. It does not, however, protect from something like Supreme Verdict , which doesn't target nor does it do damage
Posted By:
dreamxe
(10/18/2013 10:31:53 PM)
This card is magnificent in White Weenies decks and some Boros variations where all your creatures are - at least partially - white.
Yesterday this baby just won me a FFA against a mono-green devotion deck and a mono-black rats deck. Top-decked it just in time to swing with my throng army boosted by both Spear of Heliod and Heliod, God of the Sun himself. Getting past an army of no-less than 8 11/11 Pack Rats is quite satisfying indeed.
Immensely powerful at instant speed, for only 1 white mana.
Posted By:
Mihai17
(12/16/2013 2:21:22 AM)
This is one of those cards that doesnt feel over powered, making you think you can play it in casual, but is actually way too strong for that format. Its not just 1 mana indestructibility, its evasion too. For all your creatures. How many people run 3 color decks in casual when they cant afford shock lands? How many people have non-damaging global removal? Have you seen the price of wrath of god or damnation lately?
Wonderful card in any other format though. Great effect, good design.
Posted By:
jonrds
(2/8/2014 9:48:13 PM)