Jackdaw Savior – Bloomburrow
Date Reviewed: August 9, 2024
Ratings:
Constructed: 4.13
Casual: 4.63
Limited: 4.63
Multiplayer: 4.00
Commander [EDH]: 4.13
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is bad. 3 is average. 5 is great.
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I seem to recall that one of the Redwall novels features jackdaws prominently, as antagonists. But Bloomburrow‘s are apparently very helpful, and quite powerful cards besides. Jackdaw Savior itself resurrects anything that costs less than it does, and it’s particularly significant that it grants it to things which you cast later and thus presumably cost more than it does. That sounds a lot like the beginning of a combo deck, or at least a potentially resilient strategy. It protects you very effectively from things like Wrath of God – anything that dies at the same time as the Savior is still “seen” by its ability.
This is also the sort of card advantage I want to see in white – some cube curators and custom card designers have argued that a card which just draws cards sends the message that you would be better off with a random card from your library rather than the one that draws cards. That’s why Jund decks don’t play cards that draw cards, and that’s why white should have cards like Jackdaw Savior that send the message “I am confident that my threats will end you”.
Constructed: 4
Casual: 4.5
Limited: 4.5
Multiplayer: 4
Commander [EDH]: 4
A three-mana creature that turns into a two-mana one on death? If that’s all Jackdaw Savior did, it’d still be pretty good, but it affords the ability to all of your flying creatures, and that can make for a fun and thorny scenario. Notably, you don’t need to bring back another flying creature, so you can splash this in and use it as a swooping threat that accrues value on death. Fortuitously, birds are one of the 10 two-color tribes, and this feels like a phenomenal inclusion. It’s not hard to get a lot of value from the little bird, and I suspect it may have some wings in deeper formats; its 1 toughness may not be ideal, but it replaces itself on death, so it’s not so bad.
Constructed: 4.25
Casual: 4.75
Limited: 4.75
Multiplayer: 4
Commander [EDH]: 4.25
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