Note that there are 4 arrows in the quiver - one for each activated ability. The fletching is actually leaves of different color, and to me the color choice and order lends credibility to the "season" analysis other poster have mentioned.
Posted By:
Stuflames
(12/23/2013 11:31:05 AM)
I believe this is the best of the God's weapons. Much more versatile. And, screw the choose one abilities, attacking creatures get death touch? SAY WAH!? I think it's a pretty cool card, now all I need is Nylea. Considering I have Elspeth, Sun's Champion, I don't really need Heliod, but if I could get my hands on Nylea... 5/5
Posted By:
KaloTabano
(12/28/2013 1:30:38 PM)
Prized Unicorn HA!
Posted By:
Cluricon
(1/8/2014 8:10:07 AM)
So the Theros block has the theme, "Yo dawg, I heard you like supertypes, so I put supertypes in your supertypes so you can have a legendary permanent while you have an artifact while you have an enchantment."
Posted By:
SirLibraryEater
(1/17/2014 7:26:37 AM)
I like this card. It has a lot of utility, and deathtouch is a powerful effect.
I'd consider this for voltron EDH decks. Why? Well, for one, it has recursion built in. Recursion is great in EDH, considering it's a singleton format. But it also gives your attackers deathtouch, which makes your opponent think hard about blocking. Not to mention, if you give your general trample, they aren't going to block anyway, since blocking would only prevent one damage. (You assign 1 to the blocker to kill it and the rest to your opponent's face.) Plus, if you're one damage off and your opponent has no blockers, you can give your general the +1/+1 counter to seal the deal.
Posted By:
Brawler_1337
(2/6/2014 1:11:04 PM)
The only Monogreen artifact that requires green mana to play. One of four green artifacts that need green mana to be cast.
Posted By:
MCcreator
(2/18/2014 5:51:40 AM)
This is an incredibly versatile and efficient card. I love it against Delver of Secrets decks, which would usually have between six thousand to twenty-two million Delver of Secrets on the board at any given time. But with this on the field? It's clear skies, my friend. Not only that, but you can use it to get key cards that they've removed back into your library, you can use it to stall the board by gaining life, and it gives your guys deathtouch, which speaks for itself.
Posted By:
deep_shadow
(3/7/2014 11:48:56 AM)
wow. just wow. Considering what this does for how much it costs, its pretty near broken - the fact that its legendary makes it a bit more understandable, but imagine if this wasn't?!
Posted By:
Vastator
(3/18/2014 5:57:48 PM)
Now your opponent will think twice about blocking with Guardian Of The Gateless!
Posted By:
D1234
(4/5/2014 8:29:48 AM)
I'm surprised this only has 3.7stars. It has 5 abilities, last time I checked, charms, planeswalkers and deathrite shaman have 3, jace tms, the command cycle (cryptic command, because who uses the others) Aetherling and Morphling have 4, I can't think of another card with that sort of utility.
They should have named it Swiss Army Knife of Nylea
Admittedly, the abilities are a little bit less powerful, however there are an enormous number of possibilities here. The deathtouch largely equates to making creatures unblockable. The archery ability is often really solid, able to kill delver, vendillion clique, fog bank, some of black's discard oriented specters, Inkmoth nexus... Pushing a creature right out of range for spot destruction or manipulating combat is solid enough, but it's just 1 at a time. Gaining 3 life is quite solid for races and when you are going into time. The weakest ability is the recycle, but that has occasional uses, mostly for keeping certain cards out of the grave ... (see all)
Posted By:
Drewskithelegend
(5/1/2014 12:00:39 PM)