Don't be surprised to see this card get some
playing time. It can be fit into combo decks to
bounce it and reuse artifacts. It might even be
in some decks to retrieve a deck defining
artifact. It won't be a superstar, but it's
likely to be useful.
I'm actually writing this before Xth hits the
streets, so I don't yet know what Treasure
Hunter's creature type is. I'm guessing it got
made a Human, but I'm even more sure that it's
no longer a Townsfolk. What does Wizards have
against Townsfolk? It's a perfectly good
creature type! Goblin Spelunkers would've made a
lot more sense as a Goblin Townsfolk than a
Goblin Warrior!
Anyway, Treasure Hunter. The Gravedigger of
artifacts. It's good, definitely, to be able to
recycle your Chromatic Stars and Mind Stones,
but a 2/2 with a comes into play ability seems
awfully limited. If there were more Spellbombs
around, I'd rate it higher, but I just don't see
it as anything more than a way to get an extra
card when you really can't do any better.
Constructed- 1.5
Casual- 2
Limited- 3
Aethereal
Tuesday -
Treasure Hunter
10th's replacement for Anarchist in 9th, this
would have been an insanely good creature to
have in 8th Edition for Mirrodin block, but it
was not to be. All things considered, this guy
has a decent enough effect and is well costed
but doesn't have a place in constructed right
now. Perhaps when Lorwyn hits there will be more
interesting artifacts to play with.
In casual, this recycles things like Nev's Disk
and lots of other fun artifacts. Fun to build a
deck around.
In limited, you have to have an artifact in the
graveyard (something that sacrifices itself),
and it has to be useful to make this worth it.
There are not a lot of artifacts in 10th that
fit that description.
Constructed - 2
Casual - 4
Limited - 1.5
David Fanany
Player since
1995
Treasure Hunter
The first thing that I said when I saw that this
card was legal in Standard was "Momentary
Blink!" The second thing I said was "What
artifacts do I need to return to my hand?" If
you go back to the Mirrodin set, there's neat
stuff like Wayfarer's Bauble and Pyrite
Spellbomb. Maybe Treasure Hunter will feature in
the new Extended. You could even use it in
Standard with cards like Sarcomite Myr, Booby
Trap, or Triskelavus, but there are probably
better ways to use the Trisk in particular.
In limited, Treasure Hunter can be okay, but not
spectacular, in the right card pool. Imagine the
look on your opponent's face when they finally
manage to get rid of a Razormane Masticore or
Loxodon Warhammer and you play one of these
guys.
Constructed: 2/5
Casual: 4/5
Limited: 3/5
Arcane
Treasure Hunter
Constructed: There are a few strong artifacts
that are worth recycling right now, but Treasure
Hunter just isn’t in the right color for me to
make it worth playing in constructed. The best
recursive artifact decks are mostly blue to
abuse the power of the Academy ruins, or use the
tri color (non of which are white) Mishra with
cards like booby Trap or Jester’s Scepter.
Casual/Multi: There are always the big splashy
artifacts that you’ll want to get back for the
kitchen tables games: Oblivion Stone, Mindslaver,
Akroma’s Memorial, etc that your opponent’s were
hard pressed to solve the firs time around let
alone a second or third time. And with the White
Bringer and his recursive artifact techniques,
the treasure hunter could be a welcome addition
to the white artifact decks. White is also the
color of “blink” effects which could let you
abuse the hunter’s ability more and more.
Limited: There are some really great rare
artifacts in 10th edition limited like Platinum
Angel, Razormaze Masticore and Loxodon Warhammer
and this Hunter, is a great shot at getting
these cards back to harass your opponent with
all over again. Other than that you’ll probably
be returning chromatic stars most often, which
isn’t good but isn’t great. It all depends on
what you can crack.
Constructed: 1.5
Casual: 2.5
Limited: 2.5
PsychoAnime
#1
Magic Noob in Canada since 2002
Treasure Hunter
(2W)
Creature - Human
When Treasure Hunter comes into play, you may
return target artifact
card from your graveyard to your hand.
There's not much artifact cards right now that
you would want to recur
that wouldn't be better off using Academy Ruins.
But for some reason
if splashing in blue for Academy Ruins is
impossible, let's see what
good stuff this can do recur:
Mindslaver
Triskelavus
Engineered Explosives
All of these are much better when they can be
continually recurred, but
Engineered Explosives can still work fine just
once. Is running this for
Engineered Explosives worth it? Why I could just
run another one in the
first place, seeing as how it's quite rare to
run a full 4 copy of it.
In casual, this is more playable as stuff like
Jester's Cap & Sceptre
are better to use here.
In limited, there's hardly any worthy artifact
and even less ways they
would hit the graveyard in the first place. At
worse though, it's still
a 2/2 for 3 so it's still better than Scathe
Zombies.
