If you think I’ve been oddly quiet this week, you’re half right.  I wasn’t planning on reviewing many cards, but I disagreed with many of the reviewers on them so I ended up submitting them late.  So if you didn’t catch it yet, I should have a review up for every card this week.

 

Graceful Charity is one of those precious draw cards in a game where few exist that don’t have crippling limitations.  Most commonly played cards have the simple cost of… running them.  Drawing 3 of them, even having to discard two from your [newly] expanded hand, is great speed.  Again, making it even less difficult are what cards are commonly played: Monsters can be revived by Call of the Haunted or Premature Burial and Spells that we now have up to two copies of Magician of Faith to retrieve.  Discarding a Trap is a bit disheartening, but they are also the least played card type.  All the discards are made easier by a further aspect: redundancy caused by the high utility of cards.  Simply put, even if I have to chuck a Smashing Ground, a highly useful cards in most situations, I probably have a second Smashing Ground, a Snatch Steal, maybe an Exiled Force, etc still available for later.  Then there are card that discarding can make better, like many Tribute Monsters (to be revived later by Premature Burial) or fodder for things like Chaos Sorcerer, Strike Ninja, and Bazoo the Soul-Eater.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional       : 4.5/5 – Combos well with so many cards.

 

Advanced        : 4.5/5 – Still a great card here too: what it loses in combo potential it makes up for by being the best source of draw power currently legal.

 

Limited            : 5/5 – For pretty much any game, draw power rules in Limited events.

 

Summary

Sadly, there are many things that necessitate this game be so dependant upon lucky draws right now: ridiculously small deck size (especially considering there are no mana, Energy, etc cards), two to three card combos that can win the game or at least reverse control without much thought (especially after the first few turns), and a few more things I don’t have time to get into.  You see, if we had real draw power, those problems would all get worst (though individual topdecks would be less important).  You run Graceful Charity.  It’s hard, but you can still find Pegasus Starter decks if you really look for them, so there’s no reason to not have it.