Shifting realities
Standard forum
Posted on Jan. 26, 2015, 11:27 p.m. by Asher18
is Reality Shift a good card in ANYONE's opinion?! I find it friggen amazing I can exile any creature for a measley 2/2, which COULD be a sorcery, instant. land, or walker thus making it useless beyond a small thing. Someone tell me if it will see play? (constructed, not limited)
It will for sure see play in Standard. In Modern? Doubtful.
January 26, 2015 11:42 p.m.
I'm not sure. It's the removal the blue deserved, I'm just not sure that it's the one that it needed.
January 26, 2015 11:51 p.m.
I imagine it will see quite a bit of play in standard, it is a really inexpensive way to exile a creature (take that whip). as far as other formats go there are probably better options (I don't play blue in modern so I'm not sure what)
January 26, 2015 11:55 p.m.
I feel it's along the lines of Swan Song. I think this is a bit better because it exiles HOWEVER, keep in mind your opponent can cast the manifested card.... Which isn't good.
January 27, 2015 midnight
ChiefWannaHacka says... #7
In a meta filled with Courser of Kruphix, whenthey have a Elspeth revealed , you can kill 2 birds with one stone so to speak.
January 27, 2015 12:05 a.m.
I think this might see play in legacy simply for the fact that basically everything your gonna exile with it will be more relevant than the 2/2 creature you give them. And it's something blue doesn't typically do especially at instant speed.
In standard i can see it getting some play, but it has it's limitations. Against these creature heavy decks that a lot of people are playing your giving them something that they can flip up at a higher rate than you'd really want to. Even as a 2/2, or if they flip it, your forcing yourself to answer a threat your opponent has twice. There will be circumstances that it is good. Like when your able to hit an active god or something. But more often than not your better off just having a way to deal with it out right (i.e. a counter spell or splashing black for hard removal) than spending 2 cards from your hand because you have to deal with the 2/2 as well.
January 27, 2015 1:31 a.m.
removal in modernThe Doctor says... #10
See, the thing is, is that we already had a similar card.
And that didn't see much play.
January 27, 2015 2:19 a.m.
Hjaltrohir says... #11
Maybe the exile clause is more relevant and a manifest usually isn't as good as a 3/3, could be wrong, but we'll see...
January 27, 2015 2:24 a.m.
CommanderOfBolas says... #12
@TheDoctor: it saw play in mono blue devotion and some u/w decks (as an answer to Blood Baron of Vizkopa), but it was best in mono blue, which could take advantage of the tempo it gained from doing that. the exile clause is relevant against Whip of Erebos decks, Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker, and any gods that happen to see play. it is also a blue answer to Stormbreath Dragon at instant speed, which is also big for u/w control decks. I think this card could make an impact, especially with the meta shifting to Ugin, the Spirit Dragon decks, which have a lot of mana dork, Frontier Siege, and other cards that decrease the density of "real creatures" in the deck.
January 27, 2015 2:31 a.m.
What about something like Temur mid? That may want this because they lack stellar removal already and that'd eckhart seriously does not care about a 2/2. You just gotta hope you don't manifest something brutal.
CommanderOfBolas says... #2
well....I will be playing it....not sure about anyone else, but I play it in u/w control
January 26, 2015 11:32 p.m.