This card is frighteningly powerful if used
correctly. Your opponent can't block it and
can't target it to kill it, but you can target
it in order to pile Auras and Equipment onto it,
making it a most fearsome attacker. Does anyone
yet remember Silhana Ledgewalker from Ravnica
block, and how she frequently donned a
Wurmweaver Coil and swung for seven unblocked as
opponents simply looked on in hopelessness? At
least the Ledgewalker could be blocked by
flyers. Invisible Stalker can't be blocked at
all! Even something so innocuous as an Eel Umbra
makes it an incredible headache!
On the topic of something I said yesterday,
apparently Silhana Ledgewalker is blue now. That
might be even crazier. Not quite as crazy as
trying to deal with one of these guys when it's
carrying all the human-tribal equipment from
Innistrad, but pretty crazy. With all its
unblockable creatures and card drawing, you'd
think blue would have been picked as a color for
equipment decks at some point . . . oh, right.
Did somebody call The Deck That Shall Not Be
Named dead? Might want to look into that again.
Magic The Gathering Card of The Day: Invisible
Stalker
Welcome back readers today’s card of the day is
the fantastic sword wielding human, Invisible
Stalker, Squadron Hawks eat your heart out.
Being both Hex proof and unblockable means that
your opponent is on a clock as soon as he hits
play. In standard this has seen some play in
blue/white cawblade decks along with Geist of
Saint Taft for a powerful combination of
aggressive creatures and equipment. In extended
and modern the same concept applies this
creature is powerful but doesn’t I feel stack up
to the degenerate power available in other deck
archetypes and cards. In eternal formats this is
severely outclassed by its competition that it
just doesn’t do enough in formats where games
can end on turn one. In casual and multiplayer
this card is good if you need an evasive beater
and combos well with all equipment. Multiplayer
is much more tricky as you would need 20+ attack
steps to kill a single person and if there are
three or more people in a game it rises, that is
not however counting equipment and other
enchantments still my point is that it is slow
and ineffective outside a deck based around
unblockable creatures or an equipment theme. In
limited it’s a solid equipment carrier as it is
a human and receives those tribal benefits and
can get through ground stalled boards. Overall a
powerful and interesting cards with a wide
variety of uses most of which concern wielding a
sword and turning sideways.
Today's card of the day is Invisible Stalker
which is a two mana 1/1 that is Unblockable and
has Hexproof which makes it an extremely
effective attacker when equipped or enchanted.
A deck with Blue using auras or equipments can
easily win the game with just this one creature
ever attacking and the few methods of removing
it can be countered or designed around.
This is a card that will definitely see
tournament play and is a star in nearly any
setting.
For Limited this is an uncommon that can be
picked before a rare as it will win games with
even a tiny bit of support and can be an
annoyance even without as there is little in the
format that can directly deal with Hexproof.
Any Sealed deck that can afford splashing Blue
and has equipments should run this and Booster
should draft it whenever possible and follow up
with support.
The card of the day is Invisble Stalker. He is
two for a 1/1 unblockable hexproof. Hexproof is
already a powerful effect but unblockable along
with that? I've seen this guy used in mill
decks, they put Sword of Body and Mind on this
guy and just keep hitting the opponent for at
least 10 cards. Any equipment on this guy is
devistating, the only way to take him of the
board is to wipe it, or make them sacrifice. In
standard he was seeing a lot of play in the
beginning when the metagame wasn't really
established, but now that standard is starting
to take its form he has more or less lost his
value. In limited I think this guy is great, he
comes out early and is very hard to remove.
