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Posted on March 30, 2016, 5:04 p.m. by TMBRLZ
Any chance my favorite control win-con can actually seem some play in Standard with all this discard tech going on in SOI?
OPINIONS! SAY GO!
Sphinx of the Final Word is far better. It dodges anything other than wipes and edicts.
March 30, 2016 6:19 p.m.
omnipotato says... #4
I want so much for this card to be good. But it isn't and never will be ;_;
March 30, 2016 6:46 p.m.
KillDatBUG says... #5
It's a five mana 3/4 that you have to untap with, and pay a bunch of mana to maybe do 5 damage, or win in combat.
Yeah, this card sucks.
March 30, 2016 10:36 p.m.
Is everybody ignoring the first mode? Or am I just crazy?
March 31, 2016 9:59 a.m.
ducttapedeckbox says... #7
It's OK, but not hitting creatures hurts. By time you play her, your opponent will be easily able to pay the 2 mana so you have to activate it at least twice.
March 31, 2016 10:09 a.m.
two mana counter target spell unless your opponent pays 4 seems solid. The instants and sorceries won't be an issue if you focus the deck well enough. And any creatures that resolve past your other counter spells you just kill.
I feel like the art of control is dead in everything except the eternal formats right now.
March 31, 2016 10:54 a.m.
I think she is basically unplayable.
She dies to Roast, Grasp of Darkness, Languish, etc. She can't close out a game easily, and she requires a ton of instants or sorceries to be cast before she comes down to give her pseudo protection, with no hard protection at all.
It could be a janky finisher, but not enough to allow for a real honest-to-goodness blue counter-magic control deck to prosper.
ducttapedeckbox says... #2
I don't think it's impossible. The presence of Delve spells made her especially undesirable, and the discard could help. She's no AEtherling and doesn't do much against a World Breaker or anything overly big, but I think she has a better chance than she did pre-Shadows.
March 30, 2016 5:13 p.m.