Card/Deck Low Power Card Spotlight

[ravnic]

Could this Alchemy card simply be a refined version of Sunblast Angel?



It only kills the stuff that actually hit you, so it is less likely to plague wind your opponent. But for 5 mana, the 4/5 flying body feels much better to cast on curve without killing something.

It also seems to work perfectly fine in paper.

 

[blacksmithy]

Could this Alchemy card simply be a refined version of Sunblast Angel?



It only kills the stuff that actually hit you, so it is less likely to plague wind your opponent. But for 5 mana, the 4/5 flying body feels much better to cast on curve without killing something.

It also seems to work perfectly fine in paper.

worth a test probably! i like the design and it’s not a huge memory tax

 

[sigh]

Brutal against tokens lol. It boops every single same-token out of existence if even one of them hit you the previous turn.

 

[blacksmithy]

tokens deserve to suffer

 

[Chris Taylor]

So mass....reciprocate...

 

[Velrun]

worth a test probably! i like the design and it’s not a huge memory tax

I agree. I think the memory tax is as low as Light Up the Stage and Reckless Impulse

 

[LadyMapi]

I've been underestimating this boy. This is a good boy.

 

[Rowan_CB]

I've been underestimating this boy. This is a good boy.

This was the perfect retail-limited aggro card.

 

[MilesOfficial]

I've been underestimating this boy. This is a good boy.

If it had been printed 10 years earlier it would've felt like a cube all-timer and then would've been the most painful cut of my life in era of back-to-back printings of Rabblemaster effects in the mid 2010s.

 

[Rusje]

If it had been printed 10 years earlier it would've felt like a cube all-timer and then would've been the most painful cut of my life in era of back-to-back printings of Rabblemaster effects in the mid 2010s.

non haste and more than 20 years ago:

 

[Chris Taylor]

Pianna is actually kinda sweet BTW. Attacks as a 3/3
Soltari Champion remains awesome but is somewhat better known

 

[Velrun]

Can I maybe get you guys to spam some low-power reanimator cards for me?

For the actual reanimating I am looking for mono black cards but I don't mind anything being thrown my way.

 

[LadyMapi]

 

[sigh]

 

[Onderzeeboot]

 

[Zoss]

At least one of these likely counts as low-powered.

 

[Rusje]

however, repeatable recursion can be quite strong.
note that the queen is from any graveyard

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Diabolic Servitude sits at a very weird power level, where it is too expensive for high power, but can be absolutely wreck games at low power. Kind of like how Whip of Erebos is inconsequential at high power, but game-warping at low power.

 

[Velrun]

Keep 'em coming
"Gotta catch 'em all."

 

[Rusje]

Keep 'em coming
"Gotta catch 'em all."

The tapped of victimize seriously hurts. Weird one which is not reanimate but more returns we have undying, persist and

 

[Chris Taylor]

Is necromancy low power? It might be the edge.

 

[LadyMapi]

Has anyone ever played with this thing in any context?

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Has anyone ever played with this thing in any context?

Oof, looooong ago, since I started playing with Invasion block. This card is just really, really bad. It's either a blue Gray Ogre, or a far too expensive discard outlet that requires two colors. The fact that it turns in an oversized stat dump with no evasion of any kind, means it's going to be relentlessly chump-blocked as well. I could only see it get any consideration whatsoever in a format that is geared towards morphs (so it's base stats are fine-ish, and games go long enough to make paying the kicker feasible from an average game length perspective, since morph environments are usually slow-ish) and that features some sort of slow value reanimation deck to leverage the discard cost (reanimate a fatty without having to unmorph it) and that lacks heavy token support (so the big body without evasion is meaningful). That's a very specific environment!

Edit: I misremembered the card, and forgot it gains flying. Still bad, but more promising in said environment!

 

[Jason Waddell]

Oof, looooong ago, since I started playing with Invasion block. This card is just really, really bad. It's either a blue Gray Ogre, or a far too expensive discard outlet that requires two colors. The fact that it turns in an oversized stat dump with no evasion of any kind, means it's going to be relentlessly chump-blocked as well. I could only see it get any consideration whatsoever in a format that is geared towards morphs (so it's base stats are fine-ish, and games go long enough to make paying the kicker feasible from an average game length perspective, since morph environments are usually slow-ish) and that features some sort of slow value reanimation deck to leverage the discard cost (reanimate a fatty without having to unmorph it) and that lacks heavy token support (so the big body without evasion is meaningful). That's a very specific environmen!

The kicker gives it flying!

 

[Onderzeeboot]

The kicker gives it flying!

Holy shit, it is way less crappy than I remember!