Dom Harvey
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A very cool/weird card that I'm obliged to mention in any retrace convo
Truth
Man, I really want them to revisit retrace.
With the recent surveil changes, and for a lower powered environment, which do you prefer?
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Note that Devourer works with self-mill, surveil, (other niche cards), and is a self-enabler. Spybug gets a more permanent boost but is easier to deal with for creature heavy decks (not necessarily a bad thing).
Yeah... and would it kill them to make some good Retrace cards in Green or White? I really want a Cultivate with retrace.
What do green spells do? - Make one of your creatures bigger - Tutor lands into hand or play - Tutor creatures into hand or play - Return cards from graveyard to hand - Destroy non-creature, non-land permanents - Make a bunch of small tokens - Make one big token - Destroy creatures with flying - Make creatures fight - Gain life | What do white spells do? - Make all of your creatures bigger - Protect a creature - Tap creatures - Conditionally destroy or exile creatures - Destroy enchantments and artifacts - Return creatures, artifacts or enchantments from graveyard to play - Make a bunch of small tokens - Symmetrical destruction of any permanent type and other Balance effects - Prevent attacks or damage - Gain life |
I still think I like Devourer of Memor more for the time being. The better base stats, ability to be completely unblockable, and self-enabling is pretty cool. Spybug probably needs another 15 or more Cubable surveil cards to surpass Devourer.With the recent surveil changes, and for a lower powered environment, which do you prefer?
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I still think I like Devourer of Memor more for the time being. The better base stats, ability to be completely unblockable, and self-enabling is pretty cool. Spybug probably needs another 15 or more Cubable surveil cards to surpass Devourer.
Yeah this is how I feel as well, Spybug would fit into a Cube that has Surveil as a main theme, but it wouldn't work if it just has a couple cards, whereas Devourer is easier to fit into any lower powered Cube that has a "dump librarby into graveyard" archetype.Like, a draft deck with Dogged Detective, Blood Operative, Foul Watcher, Nightveil Sprite, Dimir Spybug, Otherworldy Gaze and maybe Whisper Agent sounds sweet but that eats up a lot of cube space for a group of cards that also have to be worth it in other decks. I would draft the shit out of that archetype though.