This is always an excellent point. It's cool. How many other fork effects are genuinely worth even coming close to considering besides this one? Maybe dualcaster mage, but this is an awesome izzet take on Fork-that-has-addtional-value/uses....... What pushes me over the edge to test it is that Fork is an exciting effect that I would not otherwise include in cube. People will want to draft it and see what they can do with it (I support a storm/spellsmatter theme, and Mizzix's Mastery is a high pick for draft around potential).
Sigil is in my cube. When it makes the maindeck, it's usually because someone is going to be mauled by 4/4 Angels
Interesting! I haven't looked at your cube in a bit - I already see some ideas I want to steal.
44/450 are enchantments; is 10% a high enough density? I've been wondering where the density needs to fall for it to be truly playable. With a 10% density, it looks more like a narrow buildaround - which I'm pretty okay with, personally. I've been angling for around a 15% density before I gave it a try myself, so I may just take the plunge plugging enchantress and see how it fares. I've tried every other bullshit theme (Burning Vengeance, mill, and storm) so I may as well pursue the enchantress angle whole-heartedly for my next update.
Looking at the percentage of enchantments in the whole cube gives a wrong impression of the viability of this theme, imho, because the theme is firmly centered in Abzan colors, with almost no support from the Izzet guild. Most constellation decks will be green-white, with some green-black decks as well, probably. If you look at the numbers, you can see how skewed the ratios are.
Enchantments per color (not counting lands):
12/52 in green (23%)
2/13 in Selesnya (15%)
12/52 in white (23%)
1/13 in Boros (8%)
4/52 in red (8%)
0/13 in Izzet (0%)
2/52 in blue (4%)
0/13 in Dimir (0%)
7/52 in black (13%)
1/13 in Golgari (8%)
Yeah, Daxos's Torment was in my cube before the SoI update, and it is very fine in the enchantment deck. It dodges wraths and hits like a truck, a bit Lava Axe-esque though. I have never tried any of the enchantress cards, because they are useless without enchantments, and thus pretty poisonous.That's a good point. Red and blue both hold some spicy enchantments, but they likely won't be featured often at all in enchantress decks. Have you given Daxos's Torment or any other enchantress cards a try?
Ion StormEyes of the WatcherHardened ScalesSigil of the Empty Throne
Do any of these things have any real potential?
It takes strong cards and breaks them in half.
So, isn't Hardened Scales too strong in that deck then? Abzan Falconer is an awesome support card for +1/+1 counters, but doesn't break the theme in half. If Hardened Scales does, isn't it better to not play Scales?
So you can't stack the ability on top of it 1000000x times i guess.Rules question: is there any reason this thing has to be tapped and sacrificed? I guess if there were something that tapped it down.... that's just old design right?
So you can't stack the ability on top of it 1000000x times i guess.
Yup! For some reason sacrificing this is an effect not a cost.
Yup! For some reason sacrificing this is an effect not a cost.
It's a cost in the Oracle wording. Decades later Aeolipile got hosed by March of the Machines, that's why the cost is there