FlowerSunRain
Contributor
He's definitely much lower impact then inferno titan and the power curve on him is glacially slow. But, its clearly an accumulating advantage card and you can't cut your losses with a doom blade. As Jason pointed out it takes 3 untaps to outvalue prophetic bolt (which does it as an instant with better card selection!) so unless your cube can hit red/blue devotion regularly he's actually pretty weak in most circumstances.
That said, what I don't like about him isn't the power level, its the play pattern and an indestructible phyrexian arena that doesn't cost life is pretty strong if your games regularly go long.
Future Sight is the stronger card if you want something like this and if you are looking for a similar, but more muted version of that card Keranos might be good.
Maybe I'm underestimating the value of the "free bolts" as opposed to "free cards" though.
That said, what I don't like about him isn't the power level, its the play pattern and an indestructible phyrexian arena that doesn't cost life is pretty strong if your games regularly go long.
Future Sight is the stronger card if you want something like this and if you are looking for a similar, but more muted version of that card Keranos might be good.
Maybe I'm underestimating the value of the "free bolts" as opposed to "free cards" though.