Spear of Heliod
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We survived Honor of the Pure into third turn Spectral Procession with Zealous Persecution and Thoughtseize support. You think we can't deal with a three-mana Anthem alongside real, singular creatures (as opposed to the 3-in-1 that's Spectral Procession)?

Edit: Also, seems like the No Mercy effect is offically white now. It was black up to Lorwyn (Dread), became Orzhov in Return to Ravnica block (Executioner's Swing, Teysa) and is now finally white. Tsk tsk white, beating even black in terms of mercilessness.
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Posted By: sweetgab (10/12/2013 4:32:06 PM)
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Like most of "the weapons," this combos pretty well with its respective God
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Posted By: pedrodyl (9/19/2013 5:15:58 PM)
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Hooray for the recurring avenging arrow on an anthem!
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Posted By: Shadowcaster3975 (9/28/2013 4:17:53 AM)
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*Unident of Heliod
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Posted By: Manapanda (9/29/2013 8:35:04 PM)
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I like the flavor except that last line of flavor text. "even the depths of the underworld" really shouldn't be on a card that doesn't interact any way save beneficially with graveyards. Maybe exile? That way you could exile a card that dealt damage to you and died - making the flavor text relevant.

Still - good card.
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Posted By: Cloudchaser.Kestrel (9/30/2013 5:13:16 PM)
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glorious anthem with a removal option? i'll take it
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Posted By: pooplayer (10/2/2013 6:36:46 AM)
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"even in the depths of the Underworld"

Player 1: I swing at you with my Erebos, god of the dead
Player 2: I stab it with my spear!!!!
Erebos: Ow?
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Posted By: SAUS3 (10/4/2013 2:14:31 PM)
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A Limited nightmare, if the board is at parity, this just reads "I win." You have to gain a crazy level of advantage to beat the spear and even then they just pick your best guys off one by one. Black gets no good removal in this set and white gets excellent recurring removal. Modern Magic sucks so very, very hard.
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Posted By: CapmCrunch (10/8/2013 12:01:37 PM)
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This thing can combo with Heliod quite effectively. If, for whatever reason they just happen to get past your 3/2 clerics (and your sphere of safety, which you should be running) then you can just strike down the little unblockable/intimidate what have you. If not, then you can use the open mana you have to make more clerics at the end of their turn, making it even more difficult to get to you. It's awesome, and I would very much like to make a White devotion deck with that idea in mind.

Actually, the amount of slowdown that offers a BlueWhite control deck would be pretty spectacular. I almost see a Spear, Heliod, and Sphere sandwich as a viable mid-game lockup.
Turn 3: Spear
Turn 4: Heliod
Turn 5: Sphere, which would automatically require a 3 attacking cost.

I wouldn't mind ... (see all)
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Posted By: Syrtees (10/31/2013 9:50:34 AM)
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Meh, meh, again I say meh. Yeah, it's a good card, but it comes nowhere near the power of the whip or the bow.
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Posted By: bertuccia32 (12/12/2013 1:36:45 PM)
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