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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Scott
Gerhardt
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Very
interesting. I believe there is a good
wizard control deck out there. One of the
obvious problems being the speed in the
environment. If the environment ever slows
down, we could see a number of Wizard decks
utilizing Patron Wizard to slow other decks down
to a crawl, and this card to finish them off.
That
said, though, I still think this may be the
weakest of the 5 Onslaught Avatars. The
Morph ability is not THAT strong and there are
plenty of other things you would want to play at
the 3 spot other than a 2/2 that doesn't even
count as a wizard. Probably won't see much
play, but who knows.
In limited, if you've
got the wizards, bash the face. Things that
are generally 3/3 and higher are good in limited.
Better in draft than constructed, it can bash face
if enough wizards are on the board.
Constructed:
2.5
Limited: 3.5
Current Price: $.95 |
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Chris
Gerhardt |
Onslaught has
reintroduced the concept of creature-type based
decks, and Wizards are one of the more
interesting creature-types, even encompassing
Finkel's Shadowmage Infiltrator. Even so, U and
3 for an x/x just doesn't seem cost effective
enough to me to be included in any constructed
format.
In Limited sealed,
you'd have to really be lucky enough to open a
ton of Wizard's to make this card worth the
space, or in Limited Draft, you'd have to commit
to drafting Wizards... if they dry up, the card
isn't worth the spot.
Constructed - 2.0
Limited - 2.0
~ Chris
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Judge
Bill
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The one for Wizards. Naturally, this has
morph. Unfortunately, this costs
either 1 too many, or it has a type of echo. In
either case, this typically
won't see much play, as you want as many cheap
Wizards as possible, with a
kill of something like Supreme Inquizitor. This
may see fun play, but that's
about it.
In limited, it depends if you have a lot (5+) of
Wizards. if so, this would
probably be good to play.
Constructed: 1.5
Sealed: 2
Draft: 3 |
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Alex
Hockey
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Yes there are a lot of wizards around (especially
if
you include people like shadowmage infiltrator)
and
being blue the typical wizard doesn't have much
punch.
Although nameless one could grow to huge
proportions
he doesn't have any evasion so could easily be
chump
blocked ad nauseum. If your going to use him
you're
going to have to give him some way of getting
through
blockers eg splash balck so you can give him fear
easily (and get access to the infilrator) or run
stuff
like opposition (not the most elegant solution).
Overall though, I think it will be just as easy
for a
wizard deck to play a second colour to a better
class
of kill creature like exalted angel. Nameless one
gets
a 2.5 in constructed.
In limited he's ok if you get loads of wizards,
he's
bad if you don't so I'll give him a 2 overall in
limited.
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Jon
"RaNd0M" Schewppe |
Overall a weak card. Sure, it could do
somewhat good in Onslaught
sealed if you get a lot of Wizards, but in
constructed? Psh. Don't even
consider playing it.
Constructed: 1.25/5
Limited: 2/5 |
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John
Hornberg |
Nameless One is in a way a lot like Doubtless One
(See the Review for
Duobtless One from last week) when it comes to
playablility, except it
comes with an ability that is considerably less
useful in the grand
scheme of things. What this card has the
potential of being is a Wizard
decks major kill card, especially since a wizard
deck has become very
doable right now.
The problem there, though, is that Wizards are
constantly leaving the
board because of a bomb drop like Voidmage
Prodigy. It is in most
people's better interest to counter many of the
spells being played than
to keep something like Nameless One larger.
It also lacks evasion. Nameless One doesn't
trample, doesn't fly,
doesn't draw a card, doesn't do anything
incredibly cool. It just
morphs.... and the morph doesn't even speed up
when it's played. It's
morph ability in my opinion has no real point of
being on the card, and
is there more for show or for the possiblity of
whether or not you have
a lot of Wizards in play or not. Otherwise, it is
kind of blah for Type
II constructed, and since it's a 4 crop, wouldn't
be in any Wizard deck
of mine. I'd just as soon play something Mahamoti
Djinn for a large
creature. It gets a 1.5 out of 5 in constructed.
In limited, it serves as one of only like three
creatures that blue has
that has any distinct hope of being a large
creature. Blue in Onslaught
block is really weak, reduced to mere tricks and
other colors to win the
game. In limited especially, where blue fails to
have a single good
bounce spell in the set, and card drawing is a
rare only thing now for
blue as well. Nameless One is one of blue's power
creatures in limited,
which is unfortunate when you look at it compared
to other colors. Blue
has no big creatures or any major game changers,
and even with as large
as Nameless One can get, it is still a blah
creature. I in general
don't like Blue in limited anymore. This card
gets a 2 out of 5 in
limited, because you need to be playing a
relatively weak draft color,
and at least 7 wizards to make him worth it for
your draft deck. At
least he morphs, so if all else fails, he is a 3rd
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