First of all, I want to say that I REALLY like
the full art textless cards in Future Sight. The
first time I cracked open a Future Sight pack
and saw Blade of the Sixth Pride, I thought I
had gotten an extra rare, an extra Player’s
Reward textless card, a futuristic Savannah
Lion, all rolled into one. As a common, I
especially like this card for limited play. This
card is easy to play, it blocks and kills some
pretty big creatures in Time Spiral limited
formats, and can be searched out of your deck by
your Rebel searchers. In constructed, Blade of
the Sixth Pride will probably find a place in
white weenie decks and maybe even in Boros Wins
red/white decks for the months in which last
year’s Ravnica block remains legal for Standard
constructed.
How simple. A 3/1 for two mana. It's three power
for two mana with no drawback beyond a low
toughness. Most three- power creatures for two,
or even three mana see play, even with a small
drawback. And this already has a high-level Pro
Tour deck to slide right into-- Boros Deck Wins.
BDW can now mulligan down to four cards, and if
they're the Blade, Savannah Lions, a Plains, and
one other land, you're golden. My only question
left is, what will the other five Prides be
like?
Constructed- 4
Casual- 2
Limited- 3.5
Aethereal
Monday - Blade
of the Sixth Pride
A possible card for White Weenie, as it is
similar to Savannah Lions. It isn't as fast,
because it doesn't come out on turn 1 (but then
it'd just be too good), but it can have a place
in that deck. Unfortunately, that deck isn't
really viable in Standard, and has been hated
out of Block, so I don't know if it'll ever get
played much.
Hey, here's another card for your Cat and/or
Rebel decks in Casual!
As for Limited, it's decent enough. It might get
in for a few points, then trade with something
bigger than it. Not great, but not bad.
Constructed - 2.5
Casual - 2.5
Limited - 2.5
David Fanany
Blade of the
Sixth Pride
I like this card. It's one of the coolest card
names ever made, the only Cat Rebel ever
printed, and one of the first five cards with
full-length artwork and no flavor text.
Unfortunately, it doesn't really do much of
anything. It's efficiently costed in terms of
power to mana cost ratio, so Blade of the Sixth
Pride on turn 2 puts your opponent on almost as
good a clock as Isamaru did. Unlike Isamaru,
though, it dies immediately when a Sulfur
Elemental comes into play, which will probably
warn people off from playing it in Standard.
Save it for limited play - a two drop that
trades with three- or four-drops is pretty
solid.
Constructed: 2/5
Casual: 2/5
Limited: 3/5
Arcane
Blade of the
Sixth Pride
Constructed: 3 power for 2 mana is a blessing to
white weenie decks that want to maximize power
on the table without overextending and leaving
themselves vulnerable to mass removal. My
problem with this card for constructed play,
especially in standard and block right now is
that 1 toughness leaves it on the bad end of
Sulfur Elemental, which are pretty much in every
red decks main or sideboard.
Casual/Multi: A decent budget beater for kitchen
table games, and a new addition to both the cat
and rebel tribes. It doesn’t offer much beyond 3
power though, bringing no abilities with it and
a defense stat that is just asking to be chumped
by saproling tokens. I can definitely see lots
of WW decks going turn 1: Savannah Lions, Turn
2: Blade of the Sixth Pride, Turn 3: Glorious
Anthem and outrace a lot of other casual decks
that are more prepared for the mid game than the
early.
Limited: 3 power on turn 2 is great thing, and
will punish opponents that can’t make a guy in
the first few turns, ideally getting in for a
few points. But again, 1 toughness means that
there’s almost nothing that this creature can be
blocked by and still survive, so in that regard
you might find it stuck at home unwilling to
swing into opposing token creatures.
Constructed: 2.5
Casual: 3
Limited: 3
Necro
nomikron
Blade of the
Sixth Pride:
This is one of the better textless full art
cards in the set. It's a powerful constructed
card, though I'm not sure of its uses in
limited. I'd be surprised if you get in one good
swing with it due to its 1 defense. Still, it's
a body, with 3 power, at the 2 mana point.
That's gotta count for something.
Constructed: 4/5
Casual: 3/5
Limited: 3.5/5
PsychoAnime
~ SARCASM
ALERT!! ~
I predict Blade of the Sixth Pride will break
Standard.
3 power can take down Ornithopter and such with
ease. Now let say your opponent refuses to block
it, they'll be taking 3 damage per turn. That's
right, the game will end in 7 turns if this
beast goes unchecked.
It even has no ability to hinder it whatsoever.
In fact, it can get a +2/+2
boost from Muraganda Petroglyphs, making is a
powerful 5/3, turning the 7 turn clock into a 4
turn. Imagine your opponents' fear as they look
upon this
terrifying monster.
Let's say you're playing against Dragonstorm.
You get this out. They draw
Remand, oh, no help. They draw, get Borgardan
Hellkite. Aw, no mana to play it out. They draw
again, Steam Vents, shoot. Several turns later,
they are
dead. Now do you see the brokneness of this
card?
