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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
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Staff
of Domination
Fifth Dawn Rare
Reviewed May 13, 2004
Constructed: 2.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 3.9
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner in CA,
ShuffleAndCut |
Here you have a
jack of all trades, though a master at none.
While versatility makes the difference between a
good card and a great card, this just isn't a
constructed card. In casual though, this
could be a lot of fun.
In limited, Staff
really hits its mark. Its versatility really
shines here as it gives you a really nice base of
control, and always something to do with your
unused mana. An first pick and a definite
play.
Constructed:
2
Casual: 4
Limited: 4.5
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Judge
Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
*game store employee
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MaRo's preview card for last week. The abilities
are costed to prevent abuse (for the most part),
and so we have one card with a lot of pedestrian
abilities. Pseudo Icy, Pseudo Jayemdae Tome,
this may be a good card for limited, or even
casual, but I don't see this even making a
splash in cometitive constructed.
Constructed: 1
Casual: 2.5
Limited: 2.5
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Ray
"Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer
*Game Store Owner (Gamer's Edge) |
Staff of Domination
Staff of Domination is very cute. It’s got some
good abilities, and is under costed as a whole,
although the abilities of it are over costed, so
it balances out. In general, in a casual
environment, especially multiplayer, the vast
options of utility for this card will make it fun
to play. In constructed, while Mark Rosewater may
call it an engine card, I don’t think its anything
other than a mana sink. To me, that’s the
recipient of an engine, not an engine itself.
Nonetheless, I’d try to play this card in Limited
and Casual, and have a blast doing it.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 5
Limited: 3
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Jonathan
Pechon
2 Grand
Prix Top 8's
Multiple Pro Tour
appearances |
Staff of Domination
Well…uhh…err…infinite-mana-combos, anyone? This
certainly looks like fun, and has a
Morphling-esque spread of abilities. The problem
is…they just don’t matter in constructed. There
simply isn’t a way to make this card work with
what we’ve got in constructed, being that there’s
no reasonable way to generate infinite mana
outside of Channeler-Pants. Skip it.
Now, who doesn’t like having cards with ridiculous
numbers of abilities in casual games? This thing
certainly provides you with a ton of uses,
combining with your ridiculous mana combos or just
as something to use at random. I’d actually
consider playing this in Mental Magic because the
number of really solid 3-drop artifacts is rather
low.
This really is a difficult call to make for draft
without actually playing it. My instinct says
that the relevant abilities (drawing cards and
tapping creatures) are overcosted; however, the
sheer number of abilities available to you might
actually make sure that this has some appeal.
Draft this with Vedalken Engineers and you’ll have
yourself a pretty good time.
Constructed: 2.0
Casual: 3.5
Limited: 3.0
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The Game Closet - Waco,TX)
* pro tour player
* Scrye writer since 2002 |
This thing is like a Swiss army knife. It seems
to do everything. The better effects cost more
to use though, which is probably going to keep
it from seeing play. It's a good all purpose
card though. I'd epect it to get played a bti
in casual games. Also, it is going to be a high
pick in limited:
Constructed: 2
Casual: 3
Limited: 4
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Jeff Zandi
5 Time Pro Tour
Veteran
Level 2 Judge |
Staff of Domination
I would have expected a card named Staff of
Domination to have a picture of
the Pojo staff on it, because, you know, we uh,
rule.and stuff. I'll be here
all week! Being serious though, which isn't easy
with this card, it looks a
lot like an Unglued card. This Swiss Army Knife
(you heard this card's new
name HERE FIRST) is amazingly fun. The bottom line
is, if you have untapped
mana and this card in play at the end of your
opponent's turn, chances are
you can do something useful. This is the kind of
weird all-purpose artifact
that a lot of my friends come up with when they
first try to invent their
own Magic card. Obviously playable in almost any
Mirrodin limited deck, it's
hard to know if this card has enough utility to
replace more focused cards
in good constructed deck designs. It's certainly
possible. Somewhere, T.V.'s
MacGyver is building his first deck.WITH FOUR
STAFF OF DOMINATION.
CONSTRUCTED: 3.0
CASUAL: 3.5
LIMITED: 4.0
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Raksha Golden Cub
Gee there are a lot of cats around. Well even so,
this dog is top cat (?!).
Bonesplitters and clamps make the "when this is
equiped" a playable
mechanic. Double strike is nothing to sneeze at
especially with the 4 extra
damage. 7 mana isn't fun to pay for a seemy
weenie deck. Though once this
hits, it would be a good finisher.
In limited, depends on if you're willing to pick
up a bunch of cats and 7
mana. I would be reluctant to pick this as it
limits you to white though it
is a nice creature and its effect is powerful.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 4
Limited: 2.5
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Jason
Chapman |
Staff of Dominion has a little bit of everything
but boy does the price tag add up. Even so, I
expect that some decks, especially control decks,
may admire the versitility of the Staff and some
players are always going to look for the mana to
abuse it. I think it works best as a swiss army
knife and many decks could potentially find it
useful. Constructed - Not great but it does have
great flexibility - 2.5
Limited - No truly broken effects for limited
but some benefits - 2.5
Casual - This card has a great casual feel -
3.0 |
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