This is NOT the next Dark Confidant.
I feel like you people interpret it the wrong way.
I would use it in a B/x aggro variant as an aggressive 2/2 that sometimes draws a card.
4/5
Posted By:
Boroski
(1/28/2014 5:00:16 PM)
Will likely go the way of Blood Scrivener and Duskmantle Seer.
There is no Bob but Bob, and Legacy is his profit.
Posted By:
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
(1/28/2014 5:06:24 PM)
1/5. If the card you get isn't a land, you're screwed. All this does is force you to scry your fatties to the bottom. This isn't like Griselbrand where you attack for 7 with lifelink and then use that 7 to draw, this might do 7 damage to you for one card. Not worth it.
Posted By:
bleedingreen925
(2/1/2014 10:13:30 PM)
Let me begin by saying THIS IS NOT BOB, BUT ITS REALLY CLOSE
And let me say (more importantly) YOU WILL NOT BE SWINGING WITH THIS CARD
Rob, as I'm going to call the seer from now on, is going to see some very specific play. Rob will see play with Springleaf Drum to increase the tempo of monoblack. T1 drum, T2 Rob, T3 6/6 Demon! Plus some extra card draw so T4 hits a Merchant for 5, gaining back all the life you lost with Rob and having fun with 10 point life swings.
Anyone who doesn't like this card because they'll have to attack with it obviously hasn't realized just how good this card really is. Rob doesn't have to attack to tap. Even if you want to attack with it, you can put Aqueous Form on it for scry 1 so you know what you're drawing, and triton tactics to draw multiple cards per turn (something MUCH more difficult to do with Bob.)
Personally, I like Rob just as much as Bob. Rob takes a little bit more planning to use, but he has so much potential that he is definitely... (see all)
Posted By:
Ulfbrodhir
(2/3/2014 1:30:57 AM)
what I want in my seeded booster at the prerelease
this dude
Archetype of finality
Bile blight
Drown in sorrow
Posted By:
orzhov20
(1/28/2014 7:33:59 PM)
He's not always a bomb in limited- the inspired ability is not optional. Matt Tabak (Rules Manager and blogger) mentioned that he's drafted many decks that would've been better with Walking Corpses than Pain Seers. If your deck is too expensive, you might need to side him out, even though that would make me sooooo sad.
Dark Confidant is simple and easy. He always gets you that extra card. You have to work to get it with Pain Seer. But if you do that work... Just imagine getting a Seer on the battlefield and untapping with an Elite Arcanist with Triton Tactics... hey, I can dream, can't I?
Posted By:
JimmyNoobPlayer
(1/30/2014 11:30:16 PM)
Looking at the comments, its easy to find the people who never played with Dark Confidant :P
Anyway. This card is clearly inspired by Bob. The major difference is that Bob gives you something for nothing. Once he's on the field, he will do this effect once every turn with no other input.
The seer here requires a little more effort. He has summoning sickness, so chances are he'll only tap at all the turn AFTER he comes into play. There are of course tricks to tap him before then, but on average you're probably looking at his inspired trigger first occurring the turn after you play him.
The upside of the investment and delayed wait is that Seer can POTENTIALLY go off multiple times in a turn. Dark Confidant can do this, but it requires some more unusual tricks like paradox haze.
Basically, Dark Confidant is awesome in that he can pretty much just be plopped into any deck and he will be useful. This card needs you to have a couple effects that... (see all)
Posted By:
Arachobia
(2/2/2014 6:47:52 AM)
This card WILL see Standard play. I'll even go ahead now and predict Modern.
You people saying that you ONLY want land with this... you don't understand at all how a card like this is supposed to be used. In Mono-Black right now, this guy along with Herald of Torment are GONNA siphon your life down pretty low -- while blasting your opponent and keeping your hand stocked. Then, if you can get out a Gray Merchant of Asphodel with high black devotion, you gain all that life right back. That's how black works! Stabilize.
Posted By:
mattrva77
(2/2/2014 10:27:46 AM)
Sorta-kinda Dark Confidants are still sorta-kinda Dark Confidants. Mono-Black Devotion gets even scarier...
Also, Springleaf Drum. This is the reason Wizards reprinted it.
Posted By:
TheWallinator74
(1/30/2014 7:27:18 AM)