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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Scott
Gerhardt
This
Weeks Card Selector:
My
Wife :)
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I
have an unfair advantage - I can see my fellow
reviewers works before I write my own
review. I have the following to say:
What's the big
deal?
Is Upheaval
good? Yes. Is it format
defining? Yes. Why is it more so that
Jokulhaups or Obliterate was? Both were
solid cards, but never were played with the
dominance this card does, not to mention that a
well played 'haups or Oblit would cripple an
opponent trying to scramble for mana. With
this, they know they can just drop a land next
turn.
Don't get me wrong
- this card is ridiculously good, and I certainly
think it's a 4.5 overall, and 5 in T2, but I think
people need to stop whining about how this card is
broken and needs to be banned. It's good,
but it's 6 mana. Plus, even at 6 mana,
that's not enough. You usually need at least
8-9 mana on the board when this thing goes off to
make it effective. I'd like to remind
everyone that there were a lot of 9 CC spells that
could win games that never got played. They
were called "The Prophecy Winds" and
people said they cost too much. Sorry, I'm
not real kosher on the idea of banning a card that
needs 9 mana to win.
In limited, it's
sick. It wins. Wait until you can't
wait anymore, 'heave, drop mucho threats, smile,
point, and laugh
Constructed
- 4.5
Limited - 5
Current Price - $7.45 |
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Rob
Lawing
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One day the Blue Worshippers at R and D were
looking for a way to continue making blue the
dominant color in Magic. They had, of course,
been doing this for years and were distraught
that blue still hadn't achieved such a status
after making Morphling, Force of Will, Tolarian
Academy, and blocks with 4-8 playable
counterspells. So they said "What if we
steal great abilities that should belong to red
or white or black and make them blue?" So
they took Wrath of God, Obliterate, Mutilate,
and many other cards which had mass LD or
Removal abilities and made them bounce abilities
so that blue could have them and called it
Upheaval. Then they said let's take that
Psychatog card and make it U/B instead of R/B so
it will be a dominating card in an entire format
for over a year and our big blue god will be
happy and we get to screw people who play red
decks again. This happened and we all suffered.
Rating
Constructed-4.25 overall 5 in current T2
Limited-4
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Andrew
Chapman
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Upheaval is just a HUGE mistake to have been made.
I
believe it is more format defining currently than
Fact
or Fiction, and its power will only increase after
the
block shift. Cards simply need to be able to
deal
with Upheaval, or they won't cut it. That is
what
usually makes for a banned card in most formats.
In Limited, this thing is just as big of a
monster.
Anytime you run into trouble, you can swing the
game
back in your favor by casting this and following
it up
with some random creature.
Constructed: 5
Limited: 5
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Judge
Bill
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This is the real
problem with the Psychatog decks. Their ability
to bounce all permanents, then drop their win
condition makes any deck not running counters
lose. I think this should have at least cost 8
mana ({6}{U}{U} or {5}{U}{U}{U}), and probably
more like 10. That way, they have to have an
ungodly amount of mana on the board to play
their Tog afterwards. In its current form, I
think it needs to be banned in type 2.
Hopefully, Onslaught will change the format
enough such that this is not necessary.
In limited, this is
just as sick. Wait for the late game stall, then
heave and play 4 or more of your creatures. Just
sick.
Constructed: 5
(because I can't give it any higher)
Limited: 5 (Ditto)
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Robby
Hinton |
Limited: 4
Constructed: 4 1/2
Upheaval is a really great card. And quite
annoying
as well. In limited, I think it's good, just
not as
good in constructed since you can't really build
your
deck around it. And I've always liked reset
buttons
in limited. In constructed, you of course
have
UpFestation and Tog to look at if you can't tell
the
power of this card. Tinker is running it in
some
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