While that’s great information and will let the table adapt to it, it also means they get to use it for free, which can potentially make for an explosive turn. Loxi: I don’t particularly care for the counter effect, only because it will really just delay the card for one turn. Not sure if this will see a whole lot of play outside of Standard, but in the format it will be exceptional. Hitting a card like a counter spell basically renders it useless since you can only cast plotted cards at sorcery speed. Ryan: This is a neat card with some interesting lines that can really trip up your opponent.

Of course, it does die very easily, but you aren’t likely casting this specifically to beat your opponent’s face you’re doing it to fizzle their spell and potentially tax them if they can’t remove it immediately and cost them a removal spell if they do.īPhillipYork: Neat “counter” spell that only delays but can counter uncounterable spells, with a pretty solid stax effect stapled on, and a 2/2 flyer on top of all that to clear out planeswalkers. Sure, it doesn’t completely get rid of it, acting something like a Soul Partition for an extra mana, but the added tax on the evasive body is a nice touch. Marcy: Three mana isn’t really bad for what amounts to a white counter spell. Solid card, I don’t know if I’d play it outside of blink unless you really have good synergy with your commander. This is a really good mana sink when you can stick a card that has a really strong payoff for the archetype, or at the bare minimum provide a good way to swing yourself into a more advantageous position. The issue with Blink, however, is that it’s always struggled to close out games. Loxi: Blink has always been a powerful archetype, and it’s easy to generate a lot of resources with it. Your opponents might scoop but a win is a win I guess?

The only problem with this card is that it is guaranteed to drag your turn out for a long time while you resolve all your triggers 3-4 times. Ryan: Do you like ETB effects? Well, this card is right up your alley. Nonetheless, once you hit around 7 mana that is an awful lot of potential triggers. There are some other decks that have toyed with ETB effects that might like this card too, and even if you do it at 5 CMC (so, 2 flickers) that is still potentially very strong.īPhillipYork: Decent finisher for an ETB deck, especially something like Brago that is going to be able to generate a ton of mana off rocks, but the sorcery speed makes it difficult to really leverage that. Still, if you had 3 creatures that you flickered even twice, that’s 6 life your opponent is losing just from the call ETB, and could turn certain cards that make creature tokens even scarier. The only downside for those decks is that they tend to rely on token generation and if you did that, those tokens are going bye-bye. Marcy: There is certainly a way that the Boros decks that try to use Warleader’s Call could certainly take advantage of this as a secondary finisher.

Sure cuts a lot 2 vs 3