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Joiner
Adept
Fifth Dawn Rare
Reviewed May 14, 2004
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 3.8
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner in CA,
ShuffleAndCut |
Wow...this card has
the potential to change the face of the current
environment. Here comes 5 color Green again.
As long as green is your base, Joiner Adept gives
you the ability to play any number of colors, or
to really take advantage of the new Sunburst
ability. It's downfall is that it's fragile
with only 1 toughness, and can be easily dealt
with. For that reason, I don't see it
becoming mainstream on its own. But if Fifth
Dawn gives us more similar multicolor support, it
might end up as a part of a deck engine that
thrives on multicolor mana capabilities. Time will
tell. In
limited, if you're playing green and any other
number of colors, you absolutely play this. It
smoothes your mana, and also allows you to splash
Sunburst cards more easily.
In casual, yet another
abusive Spike card, sure to see play in some crazy
5 color deck. Fun stuff!
Constructed:
4
Casual: 4.5
Limited: 4
Current Price:
Joiner
Adept -
Fifth Dawn - TBA |
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Judge
Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
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Fifth Dawn's answer to five color play. This
turns all of your lands into 5 color machines. A
necessary must play for limited, a very decent
addition to Birds of Paradise (or maybe even a
replacement) for Standard, MBC's 5 color maker,
and a card that will probably be well loved by
casual players. A high rating all around.
Constructed: 4.5
Casual: 4.5
Limited: 5
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Ray
"Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer
*Game Store Owner (Gamer's Edge) |
Joiner Adept
Dan Gray, inventor of
Type Dan Gray, has proclaimed this card his
favorite new card for Type Dan Gray. Since it’s a
five color format, and this appears to be a five
color set, I can understand his joy, and think
even more “good stuff” is coming down the pike for
us Type Dan Gray Fans. This card though, is just
good all around. For two mana it has two power and
one toughness, making it a great aggro drop, and
it fixes your mana as long as it’s alive. In
limited and constructed it fits the two drop style
amazingly, being able to swing for two, or staying
back as a mana fixer for multi color decks. In
Casual play, it acts as the best mana fixer out
there for so cheap, and will likely be the biggest
lightning rod to hit Casual play in a long time.
Constructed:
4
Casual:
4
Limited:
4
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Jonathan
Pechon
2 Grand
Prix Top 8's
Multiple Pro Tour
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Joiner Adept
Being a 2/1 for two at
least keeps this reasonable, due to it being
reasonably aggressive. I can really say that I
have no clue whether this card will be good or
not; it’s simply going to depend on what is in the
rest of the set, i.e. whether they make the
five-color mechanic good enough. If they do, then
you’re looking at a possible resurgence of
three-or-more color green decks…though this thing
really is fragile. I wouldn’t put a whole lot of
money on this guy, but here’s hoping, at least.
You guys at the wacky
group tables like stuff that lets you play lots of
colors. Maybe this’ll look to replace stuff like
Pulse of Llanowar in decks that want to run four
or five colors. It’s irrelevant for Mental,
though it might be useful in Prismatic, if you run
an extremely heavy green base.
It’s a reasonably
aggressive creature in a draft deck, and it allows
you to splash colors a bit more easily. Since
we’re going to be down to a single pack of Myrs,
we’re just not going to see a whole lot of those
jumping in front of this guy during combat. He’s
not a high pick, but he’s decent enough for a
middle-of-the-pack selection.
Constructed: 2.0
Casual: 3.0
Limited: 2.5
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DeQuan
Watson |
I would trade for
these like a mdman when they first come out.
They are going to be great in constructed
formats of all kinds. Also, all those casual
players with their five color decks and sliver
decks are going to love this creature. Get 4 as
fast as you can as they will trade extremely
well.
Constructed: 4
Casual: 5
Limited: 3
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Jeff Zandi
5 Time Pro Tour
Veteran
Level 2 Judge |
Joiner Adept
Now you're talking! While I have enjoyed reviewing
new Fifth Dawn cards this
week, none of which I had seen anywhere before
this week, I hadn't really
seen a good card for limited or constructed. This
HOT little Elf Druid does
everything you want a good two casting green card
to do. She has a power of
two, she fixes mana problems, and she's an Elf.
This card goes in every
green deck in limited, and probably every Elf deck
in constructed formats.
For Fifth Dawn limited play, Joiner Adept can make
your dreams of Five Color
Magic come true, an important feature for getting
the most out of many of
the cards in Fifth Dawn.
CONSTRUCTED: 3.5
CASUAL: 4.0
LIMITED: 4.0 |
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Joiner Adept
I like this card. It's 2 power for 2 which just
gets rarer and rarer. It
also gives you a choice of any color mana at no
other cost (than paying its
cc) which is odd. It's also an elf, which doesn't
make that much difference
as most elf decks are 1 color anyway. Though the
more I think about it, the
more you can guess how this ability doesn't belong
on this card. With 1
toughness it is at the mercy of any burn spell and
it's effect is only
temorary (while this card is in play) so unlike a
fetch land, once it's gone
it's gone. With this logic, one sees that this
doesn't fit in too many
decks. By the time it's useful, any of the
millions of weenie kills will be
used. It would have been more useful if it had
more toughness, but then it
would cost more.
I guess it's not that bad in limited, but multiple
color decks would have to
have more smoothers.. and as this is rare, you
can't count on getting
multiples.
Constructed: 2.5
Casual: 3
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Jason
Chapman |
Joiner Adept is great.
Any 2/1 for 2 is a good start especially with an
ability that doesn't require the Adept to tap.
Also introducing a great cheap mana fixer in a set
with sunburst and you have a great card for all
time. In some ways he is as good as Birds of
Paradise.
Constructed - An amazing color fixer in a nice
cheap body - 4.0
Limited - A great
pick since you need multiple colors - 4.5
Casual - A cheap
way to access all the mana colors needed - 4.0
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