Gifts or Teachings
Modern forum
Posted on May 6, 2016, 5:04 p.m. by calaw00
Gifts Ungiven or Mystical Teachings? Which one is better for a draw go shell?
agreed on gifts. it may be a bit trickier to set up, but it provides 2 cards like MT does, but is significantly cheaper in the end.
May 6, 2016 5:11 p.m.
Neither. Gifts is a build-around card and mystical is just crap.
That said if you're willing to build around it gifts is actually somewhat competitively playable. Might be better now with the recent unbannings, not really sure.
May 6, 2016 5:47 p.m.
Depends on the shell. Gifts is amazing but you need to build around it carefully to ensure it pays off. Teachings is just not a good card.
May 6, 2016 6:09 p.m.
To echo others' thoughts, Gifts Ungiven can actually be good if built around. The best use I could think of for Mystical Teachings is to fetch Gifts Ungiven, which is very telling as to which is the better card.
May 7, 2016 11:19 a.m.
WizardOfTheNorthernCoast says... #7
Run both so the problem's gone :D No joke you can even get Teachings in the yard thx to Gifts so...
I'm actually thinking about playing it in my esper control because I think it's actually not THAT bad :) 3 snaps, 3 restos, 2 WSZ and spot removals represent plenty of decent targets for this spell
beckhr says... #2
Gifts Ungiven, mostly in that you can get any silver bullet that you need and you can also use it to just win with Unburial Rites + Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite/Iona, Shield of Emeria.
May 6, 2016 5:06 p.m.