Speaking of things that it's about time there
was more of, I've been hoping for serious green
card-drawing since Planar Chaos teased us with
it. I have no problem with it being tied to
creatures, like this card - green decks play
creatures anyway. They always have and they
always will. The power required on the creature
is low enough that a wide range of decks will be
able to use it advantageously, more easily than
something like Triumph of Ferocity, and the fact
that it triggers when the creature comes into
play leads to more flow in cards and gives
creature decks a better long game.
Today's card of the day is Elemental Bond which is
a three mana Green enchantment that has you draw
a card whenever a creature with three or more
power enters play under your control. This
has the same effect as Garruk's Packleader at a
lower cost and being far less vulnerable to
removal, though less efficient in the sense of
not being able to attack or block. The
lower cost and potential value to an enchantress
design gives this some situational value an it
is likely to see at least some play as card
acceleration for Green in Casual formats if
nothing else.
In Limited this depends somewhat on the pool as
it is far less valuable in a low mana curve
aggro build with few three power creatures
available. It is very unlikely to have no
creatures that can trigger the effect, but the
higher the mana curve the more likely this is to
be an actual advantage of drawing more than one
card and of being playable early without costing
a creature play. A reasonable second or
third pick in Booster and worth including in
Sealed when running a Green deck with some
larger creatures.
One of those cards that you read, get really
excited, then re-read and have your hopes
dashed. I did this, looking for even more draw
power in my "Go elf yourself" EDH. That said,
it's stackable draw power for limited and
casual, which is cool. Don't expect to see this
anywhere competitive though.
