Yeah just to be clear the idea was to flip your reanimation targets and shoot villain for a lot of damage.
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I don't think that upside is enough to offset giving your opponent cards per turn. If your decks are getting lots of permanents on the battlefield, this might be an option?
I think it's a cute way to tie delve/top of library manipulation into aggressive strategies.
As in “Two different deck strategies can use the same card and this one can tie the two different deck strategies together”?
love him. non parasitic aggressive card that scales nicely into late game. obviously gets better with more goblins but doesn’t need a bunch to function
How do people feel about this little guy?
Normally I'd agree with you, Ravnic, but I feel like the goblin actually scales a lot depending on whether or not your environment is full of 2/1s for 1 and on how many goblins you have. It always trades with a bear, and while it can be Rabblemaster for 2, it gets stonewalled by so much. It's the sort of thing where Isamaru is acceptable to good in higher-powered formats but is just okay in retail draft. Similarly, Goblin is powerful in that he's very efficient, but he's not very powerful.
Of course, if you can't guarantee that your decks are developing significant board presence by T3 at the absolute latest then yeah, it's going to steal games.
Of course, if you can't guarantee that your decks are developing significant board presence by T3 at the absolute latest then yeah, it's going to steal games.
i don’t run him on paper fwiw. i just like his design and he’s good in my artisan arena cube
I think it works in aggro midrange delve kinda decks. Reanimator... maybe.
Is this a little too much to run as an incentive for delve/reanimation decks?
I'm more worried about how the opponent perceives the game when they take 8 damage in the upkeep from a 2 drop. Feels really swingy and maybe not that fun.
yup, 100%, it’s both bad and swingy at the same time
Personally I really liked Duskmantle Seer, and this card fills in a similar role of allowing UB decks to be aggressive in a very UB way. I don't think giving your opponents cards is as bad as some of the comments are making it out to be, but if you don't have both Delve (most of the creatures are pretty aggro-oriented to begin with) and top of the library as prominent mechanics in your environment then Keen Duelist is less of a glue card.
I would be playing the heck out of Keen Duelist if it was the Duskmantle Seer effect. Beyond the needlessly confusing way that it reads, I don't want to be punished because my opponent is running 8-drops when my curve tops out at a single 4-drop.
Still, if it read in a less confusing way, I'd still probably add it to my list, I do think the effect is quite strong.
Sadly what I thought. I just hadn’t known that card existed. Probably for a reason…
yeah the izzet guildmage is pretty deece, forks all your cantrips and bolts and has a fine floor as an easily castable 2/2 for 2
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Would this card work in a high power setting? I’m always looking for UW cards that aren’t just “wrath/counter with upside” (i like those in moderation ofc) and dennick seems pretty deece? maybe?
Would this card work in a high power setting? I’m always looking for UW cards that aren’t just “wrath/counter with upside” (i like those in moderation ofc) and dennick seems pretty deece? maybe?