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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Scott
Gerhardt
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Patriarch's Bidding
Constructed:
4.25
Limited: 1.5
Current Price:
$3.95 |
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Chris
Gerhardt |
This card is showing
up in a deck called Goblin Bidding now. Basically,
it uses some suicide Goblins to hit hard and fast,
and after they die, you Bid them back up from the
grave along with a Goblin Warchief to give them
all haste, then WHAM!! Nice.
In limited, unless you
have a tribally focused deck, most likely in black
(Zombies, anyone?), this card probably isn't worth
the slot.
Constructed: 4.5
Limited: 1.75 |
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Judge
Bill
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One of the tribal
influenced cards in Onslaught block, this allows
both you and your opponent to pick a creature
type, and all creatures of those types in both
graveyards are returned to play. This is what
finally helped goblins become a top deck, and
that's not going to change when Odyssey block
rotates out. Expect much goodness from this card
until October 2004, and not just from the little
red men.
In sealed, your deck
is usually way too random to take advantage of
this. And in draft, your opponent's deck is
usually way too focused to take advantage of
this. I'll pass.
Constructed: 4
Limited: 1.5
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Jason
Chapman |
Patriarch's Bidding is
flashy and expensive but returning cards to play
is a very powerful ability especially for theme
decks. Zombies anyone?
Constructed - A great
effect here especially for casual games - 2.85
Limited - Not so
good unless you go into the draft with a creature
theme already built - 2.65 |
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Tyler Grund |
Patriarch's Bidding
Being included in one of the toughest and most
played archtypes in Type II
right now, the bidding is near the top for
contructed play. The
ever-present urging of wotc for players to play
tribal decks just keeps
rolling with this fine addition.
I used this card in my Goblin Bidding deck, until
I ran into more Mirror
games than not, but I can say there were plenty of
games where a nicely
timed Bidding brought on a game-winning world of
hurt for my opponent.
The down side to the card is that if you are
running against another tribal
style deck, there is little to no point to playing
it. ( Although Once I
played it for fun against a Rotlung zombie deck
very late-game to quite
funny results. When it all settled, there were 30
creatures on the table....
with the majority of his going back to the grave
thanks to two hasted
Sharpshooters:) But since you can sideboard it out
or simply choose not to
play it, it stays at the top of the ratings. Ever
since I noticed other
tribal decks being a majority, I used Oversold
cemetary in my sidebaord for
a while. Though not as powerfull, being one-sided
makes it a realatively
good replacement during sideboarding.
In limited, I say useless since both players are
playing creatures, and it
just turns into a two player animate dead since
there is little to no tribal
action during limited. Its high cost and low
yields makes it a non-pick for
me.
Constructed: 4.5
Limited: 2.0 |
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Patriarch's Bidding
Like its predecessors, living death and replenish,
this card is certainly
showing it's value in block constructed and type
2. In limited, you would
have to have an already amazingly tribal deck for
this to be more worthwhile
for you than your opponent any greater than 50% of
the time.
constructed - 3.3
limited - 1.9 |
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