This coupled with yesterday's Card of the Day
makes me suspect that we're in the middle of
some sort of theme week. Gideon's Lawkeeper is
certainly a respectable first-turn drop, as it
sends a very stern message to your opponents:
you're not getting through for damage unless
you're willing to overcommit and walk right into
my Day of Judgment. It of course also combo's
well with Gideon's Avenger, but so does Blinding
Mage and so many other or white's tap effects.
Though it may look like a fairly weak way to
keep an opponent's creature off your back, it
benefits from the ability to adapt to whatever's
the biggest threat each turn, whereas a Path to
Exile gets rid of one creature and then can do
nothing about the bigger creature your opponent
plays two turns later. As a result, this is a
solid one-mana creature that you're still happy
to draw long after the relevance of an Elite
Vanguard or the like has waned.
I totally wish I had one of those whip katar-things
Gideon uses. Granted I'd probably kill myself
the first time I tried to put it on, but it's
possibly the most badass fictional weapon I've
seen, ever. In my opinion, Gideon's Lawkeeper is
an appropriately badass user of it - if white is
overloaded with two-cost creatures, it
occasionally struggles to find a one-cost
attacker that stays relevant late game. Plus,
you've no doubt noticed that many of the premier
big creatures of the current era have attack
triggers or on-damage abilities, and the
Lawkeeper lets you basically turn them off at
will. No matter who you end up facing, though,
this is undoubtedly a strong card.
Today's card of the day is Gideon's Lawkeeper
which is a one mana White
1/1 that can tap for one White to tap target
creature. This is one of the best one
drops for a White or Blue/White control deck and
is useful at any stage of the game. There
is a variety of cards that benefit from an
opponent's creature being tapped, so this works
well in theme decks as well. Expect to see
it in soldier and control decks across formats
for quite some time.
In Limited this is a very nice way to control
most of the biggest threats and is a one mana
1/1 as well, making it good even in most topdeck
scenarios and as early as the first turn.
Any Sealed build with more than a splash of
White mana should include this as it is easy to
maintain a lockdown and can potentially get in
early damage. For Booster drafting this
fairly early is worthwhile as it works as
removal in most cases and is still a creature,
yet is less vulnerable than other formats due to
the shortage of true destruction effects.
Welcome to the
Pojo.com card of the day. Today we are looking
at Gideon’s Lawkeeper from M12. Gideon’s
Lawkeeper is a 1/1white creature human soldier
for one white mana. Gideon’s Lawkeeper says pay
one white mana and tap it to tap target
creature.
Gideon’s Lawkeeper is just another way white
likes to lock down the board. Most players
utilize the Lawkeeper as a defensive weapon,
tapping the largest creature an opponent could
send during the declare attackers step. However,
I personally enjoy using it offensively,
removing the most annoying blocker from my path
to my opponents face ;).
However you choose to use the Lawkeeper, those are the
ways he is most effective on it’s own. He truly
gains advantage though once combined with the
other Gideon cards. Using him for either purpose
with Gideon’s Avenger out puts a +1/+1 counter
on the Avenger. And of course should you get
Gideon himself out, he can destroy whatever you
forced tapped. But why use your planeswalker for
such ridiculousness? I like white and black
working together, and therefore, combine the
Lawkeeper with our old friend, the Royal
Assassin. One mana, tap something, blow it up.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
