At worse this is an Illusion version of Zephyr Sprite or Flying Men. Which are solid one drops without any additional abilities.
Posted By:
UncreativeNameMaker
(7/10/2012 6:46:03 PM)
Before you start talking about how this guy is going to be the new Delver of Secrets, ask yourself "How easy is it to get ten cards in my opponent's graveyard?"
I don't see this being a card that will do its major damage early on. I do see it being a very useful card in control decks with Nephalia Drownyard, against control decks, against Delver, and as a cheap late-game beater. Unfortunately, Tormod's Crypt just got reprinted, and Nihil Spellbomb is still legal, so it's pretty easily answered.
Good combo with the chancellor, though.
Posted By:
JasonPaul601
(7/12/2012 11:37:43 PM)
For use with Mindcrank, perhaps?
Posted By:
XepherXero
(7/14/2012 7:12:41 PM)
Why not just use this in a combination mill/aggro deck?
A playset of these, a playset of Sword of Body and Mind, a couple Mindcranks, a few Tormod's Crypts, maybe a set of Trepanation Blade, a set of Phantasmal Images, and a set of Invisible Stalkers. Sure, the crypt seems inefficient, but if they want to use their graveyard they're gonna have to work for it. May as well stick in some counters and a kill spell or two as well.
With all these low cmc cards, I could see this being pretty fast and powerful.
Posted By:
JackThompson
(7/16/2012 11:03:55 PM)
1cc for a 1/1 flying is pretty good by itself! Plus this is pretty good to draw late game also.
Posted By:
SgtSwaggr
(7/21/2012 2:13:17 PM)
This is my favorite Uncommon in M13, and I'm looking forward to trying monoblue Mill in Standard. A great card, synergizes well with a big theme in Blue, but not too broken. At worst, he's a Flying Men. At best he's like Serra Ascendant. Kind of a symbol of power creep, but I still love it, 4.5/5.
Posted By:
gman92
(7/24/2012 3:02:35 PM)
Damn, a potential 5/5 for U. We just need the Glimpse now.
Posted By:
True_Mumin
(7/28/2012 4:51:47 AM)
How can this card have a lower rating than Zephyr Sprite? This is strictly better because of its ability.
Forget mill decks, even in non-mill blue decks this could be useful. It's a 1-drop 1/1 flyer for starters. Then, late game there is a good chance an opponent has 10 or more cards in their graveyard, so this would be a 5/5 1-drop flyer. In mill decks this is a beast. Anyone ever play Jace's deck in DotP 2013? Utterly devastating. Becomes a real threat real fast. A few Thought Scours and Mind Sculpts later, it can be 5/5 by turn 3. Have 2 of them out when this happens and its GG.
4/5
Posted By:
CorkBulb
(7/28/2012 10:14:32 AM)
@CorkBulb Because Fairies has more synergies with better cards than Illusion does.
Posted By:
myztikrice
(8/9/2012 6:13:25 PM)
T1 this
T2 Glimpse the Unthinkable, SMACK.
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(8/25/2012 5:20:47 PM)