I can't look at this card with out wanting 20 copies of this Guy! OMG I could make so many decks just on his first ability!
Posted By:
Yozuk
(1/28/2011 10:53:58 AM)
I opened one of these in one of my three Scars packs at the Besieged prerelease today. Needless to say, I was a happy man. I splashed blue in my otherwise W/R aggro deck just for him. Never regretted it for an instant; I had plenty of cards with EtB effects. So much love.
I realize saying "He's good in a deck with lots of EtB effects" is like saying Koth is good in a deck with Mountains or Nissa is good in an elf deck, but still. Ridiculous good in a deck even slightly tweaked to abuse him.
Posted By:
Magnor_Criol
(1/29/2011 8:37:04 PM)
He's the Shield controller for Tezzerets army of artifacts.
Blink your Archangel.
Create a 5/5.
Posted By:
ArdentRecruit
(2/12/2011 5:51:07 AM)
oh yeah, guys, why is it that on the MTG site, they say venser is a "new breed" of planeswalker? don't all planeswalkers teleport when they planeswalk to a new plane?
Posted By:
GeronimoMartinez
(2/13/2011 6:28:08 AM)
I love comes-into-play effects, so to me this is possibly the best planeswalker out there. Repeating effects from creatures like Man O'war, Eternal Witness and Wall of Omens can make such a big difference in a game, and is fun to boot.
Posted By:
BuffJittePLZ
(2/16/2011 8:08:47 AM)
i like venser a lot, he has a lot of combo potential, really not bad in limited either with cards like ichor wellspring, but i think his problem is that he is too slow for something like a standard environment, his first ability is really what gives him less of an aggressive feel, stangely out of the couple times i've played with him, i've never used his second ability, overall good walker tho, just kind of slow in terms of standard speed, finally got something nice to bounce in mirrodin beseiged too Spine of Ish Sah id give garruk, er i mean venser a 4.5/5 lol
Posted By:
raadface
(2/18/2011 3:21:09 PM)
Way cooler than Jace because Venser actually requires you to play smart: how powerful he is is determined by how you built your deck and how you play it. You could play lots of defensive creatures with ETB effects and focus on his +2: card advantage (plus threat of ultimate), or you could mix in some aggro elements so his -1 is also relevant.
Seriously, we need more cards like this, and less cards that are so powerful that they can do essentially anything anytime alone.
Posted By:
Gabriel422
(2/19/2011 4:52:56 PM)
In standard, flicker a Aether Adept, Wall of Omens, Augry Owl, or Stoneforge Mystic. The Aether Adept is just evil.
Posted By:
blink182zombies
(2/21/2011 7:05:34 PM)
"oh yeah, guys, why is it that on the MTG site, they say venser is a "new breed" of planeswalker? don't all planeswalkers teleport when they planeswalk to a new plane?"
~by GeronimoMartinez
This is a reverence to the mending of the multiverse, which came after the phyrexian assault of dominara I believe. Yes his powers are similar to the current planeswalkers when it comes to planeswalking, but he is flavor wise the first of this breed of planeswalker.
Posted By:
old_blooded
(2/24/2011 2:47:48 AM)
@ channelblaze:
113.2. An effect that creates an emblem is written “
gets an emblem with .” This means
that puts an emblem with into the command zone. The emblem is both owned and
controlled by that player.
113.3. An emblem has no characteristics other than the abilities defined by the effect that created it. In
particular, an emblem has no name, no types, no mana cost, no color, and no expansion symbol.
Essentially, because emblems are colorless, your assumption is correct. You could use Venser's emblem to exile permanents that have protection from white or from blue. Think of it as YOU getting the ability. YOU are a colorless noncard nontoken nonspell source. I expect things to get pretty absurd when we see design space that interacts with the command zone from the battlefield (i.e. "protection from emblems").
With the amount of creatures in this game with ETB triggers, I think Venser is by far the most versatile planeswalker in the game. He ba... (see all)
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(3/2/2011 11:34:22 PM)