Venser's Sideburns better be an equipment in Mirrodin Besieged
Posted By:
Troutz
(10/4/2010 8:31:06 AM)
Venser is excellent with Glimmerpoint Stag. When the stag comes back into play at the end of your turn after being bounced with Venser, you can exile an opponent's permanent (such as, say, their planeswalker) for the entirety of their next turn, as it will not be returning to play until the end of their turn.
Posted By:
ivorythunder
(2/20/2011 8:50:22 AM)
There are a few uses for Venser that I don't think I've seen here. Of course there's the obvious CIP triggers, cleansing poison counters, reclaiming the Jace, the Mind Sculptor your opponent just stole with Volition Reins, etc. The first is resetting cumulative upkeep. Illusionary Terrain goes from "decent stall card" to "instant scoop" against a lot of decks if you get a Venser down with it. The second is disabling any double-edged sword cards you have. Suddenly, Standstill is even crazier than before, and the aforementioned Illusionary Terrain will work even if your opponent's playing blue. And then just the miscellaneous shenanigans you can pull with things like Ancestral Knowledge.
You could also pull off a lot of these combos with Vedalken Mastermind, but Venser has a few advantages: he's much harder to kill/bounce, you don't have to recast af... (see all)
Posted By:
Lyoncet
(6/11/2011 12:08:46 PM)
Great PW design. He's far from "autoinclude in any deck with 'dat color". You need to build around him. Alas, he's not too useful in limited.
Posted By:
Gavrilo
(10/8/2010 4:45:40 AM)
Venser is probably the only one who can use his first ability to 'cleanse' -1/-1 counters of your creatures, a great deal consider that you don't see many cards that can do this.
And here's a possible combo for Elspeth Tirel and Venser working together, with Elspeth creating tokens the first time in the turn, then let Venser exile her, returning her with 4 loyalty couners again. You can keep doing this each turn till you're satisfied withthe number of soldier tokens at your command, and they also act as your shield against constant harassment, three soldiers each turn to block your opponent's desperate assault.
When you felt you had enough, proliferate or wait a turn for Elspeth to charge up, have Venser phase himself out of the game before letting Elspeth clean the board, while he comes back with his 3 counters. Sound strategy, bet most players didn't think of that but it works.
Oh, and um, Bathory, care to explain your issues with 'arms'? '''>_>'''
(lol)
Posted By:
SorianSadaskan
(9/25/2010 7:00:13 AM)
Can you say Allies? ;)
Posted By:
iSlapTrees
(5/24/2011 10:46:17 PM)
Personally, what I really like about Venser is that: in the comments section, you see all the fun combos that people can think of to abuse him while with the most powerful cards, progenitus, emrakul, bolas, planeswalker for exmple all you really get is people saying "X, Y and Z beats, kills, makes you sad" Venser isn't as powerful on hist own, its all about the combo.
Posted By:
Arrzarr
(9/24/2011 10:26:11 AM)
At the time of this posting, I think Venser is one of the most underrated cards in standard. I think we will see him run competitively very soon.
Posted By:
XIII13Thirteen
(12/1/2010 9:51:47 PM)
Fits right into UW control. Bounce Wall of Omens and Halimar Depths until he goes unltimate. I don't see his -1 being used very much though.
Edit: For curiosity's sake, what happens when you bounce a card that has a "beginning of the end step" clause...like Putrefax? Does the "end step" trigger go off? Or can I constantly bounce my Putrefaxs and Ball Lightnings for reuse?
Posted By:
ZuesAscendant
(10/12/2010 8:34:07 AM)
I recently played against a guy who used his flicker ability with Stonehorn Dignitary. Never having a combat phase really destroy's a deck that uses combat to deal damage.
@Mechakraken
The text on Venser says "Exile Target Permanent." A card is not a permanent until it is on the battlefield. Even if you own it. Even so, if Phage comes into play anyway other than you casting her, you lose, so you couldn't flicker her.
Posted By:
SarpNasty
(9/22/2011 6:50:00 PM)