I am living for these Confluences.
The blue one looks perfect for my format, which is all about a tight curve centered around low-cost spells and creatures.
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Mana Leak by T5 has the potential to fizzle if you don't wait for the right moment here, so double Leak, draw a card for 5 is a fair meh-case scenario compared to
Cryptic Command.
- Single Leak, double draw is impressive, of course, but that's living the dream and works most often in Control versus Midrange. I'm okay with this, because it helps push aggro competitively (which has the best chance of getting under this card) and provide control another tool against Value Midrange, which I try to discourage as much as possible.
- Alternative mode of triple Leak is the worst-case scenario, but again, a late-game possibility that I'm not ruling out.
- Triple draw is the fairest and least desirable, because
Jace's Ingenuity was always so much worse than
Opportunity.
- Bounce, counter, draw will be potentially super powerful, I won't deny that. But leaving up so much mana? That's kind of rough, and I can see it being played around after round one. Since we typically do over a dozen rounds (remember I draft with 1 or 2 other people usually, and we play tons of games before re-drafting), I think that'll be fine enough.
- Bounce, bounce, draw, as well as bounce, bounce, bounce, are all, of course, super fucking frustrating/punishing options. My defense of this is that I want to see it in action before I agonize over it. Triple bounce is pretty mean, but it does give blue a way to blow through blockers in a more offensive shell, which is a strategy I already allow in other colours, so giving it to blue in another card seems fine. Then there's ETB effects that you might be re-buying for your opponent if you can't alpha in, and also, your alpha strike may be screwed by a piece of removal in response.
IDK, it looks super pushed, I give you that, but since it's just Leak and not full-up
Counterspell, I'm definitely game to try it in my tighter format.
Righteous Confluence plays nicely into tokens and life gain over here, and I like that it provides another enchantment hate tool. The fact that it's sorcery helps keep it fair enough to play for me.
Fiery Confluence looks ballin and I see no reason to worry about it personally, it's a flexible bad
Anger of the Gods, a flexible good
Lava Axe, and a flexible good
Manic Vandal that I don't feel guilty throwing into my cube. IDK, I'm happy with this.
deck, right?
