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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Chris
Gerhardt |
Lightning Greaves can be considered a well-costed
ANNOYING spell. Giving your creatures haste for 0
is a good thing, people. Protecting them for 0 is
even better. When it's in play, your opponent will
need to hold back in case you play something
devastating in the creature mode that they will
have to block. Or play it on something as
simple as a flyer against a deck without flyers,
and they can't burn it out, arrest it or otherwise
deal. It's a clock (ticking toward their doom).
It's
cost is right to make it available as a
constructed card. The question is, will it find a
home in a deck. In limited, it is a great early to
mid pick, especially nice in a quick deck that
wants to bash face quickly. Colorless is always a
plus.
Constructed:
3
Limited: 4
Current Price:
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Judge
Bill
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Lightning Greaves
The perfect
equipment for when you absolutely, positively
have to attack right now. It allows one creature
per turn to ignore summoning sickness, and fits
right in with a hasty Broodstar. Not many other
constructed decks would use this, but this is
very handy in limited, as it allows one creature
to not die to anything but combat damage.
Constructed - 3
Limited - 4
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Lightning
Greaves
One of my favorite cards in the set! All your
creatures have haste
(basically), and any creature can be a green
untargettable! Add to that a
zero equip cost, and this is quite dangerous in
limited, and has a lot of
useful functions in constructed too. (to note,
my article about suicide
black with greaves... when you can't target a
hasty negator, he's even
better).
limited 3.3
constructed 3.1
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Chase |
Lightning
Greaves
Another one of my favorite new cards. I have
seen this thing rule the
table. The beauty of it is that if you cast one
creature per turn it says,
all your creatures have haste. The untargibility
is good too. And if you
want to put an enchantment on it, just move
greaves to another creature for
free, enchant, then equip the creature again. It
works best in WW but, it
can still be good in just about any deck.
In Limited, this is also great. Haste is very
valuable in Limited, as most
people tend tap out if you have no creatures (they
are guessing you won't be
able to attack them next turn). Giving a fatty
haste for no mana is great.
A high pick.
Constructed: 4
Limited: 4
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Jason |
Lightning Greaves
This is an all
around winner. Two casting cost for an artifact
that protects you creature as well as giving it
haste...hmmm I think I might be stretching it a
bit if I say this is pretty darn good. I think
this card would have seen play even if you upped
the equip cost to 1 maybe even 2. In standard this
thing can wreck your game winning strategy just by
being on a Platinum Angel. Sure you might have one
artifact kill spell for the Lightning Greaves but
now you have to draw another for the Angel. Haste
is not a second rate ability either. Each turn you
play a creature you get to move the Lightning
Greaves for free and another creature adds fuel to
the fire. I like to review cards that I know are
good because they show up in Standard, Extended,
Vintage, and they get early picked in draft.
Limited 4
Constructed 4.5 |
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