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Battle at
the Bridge
- Aether Revolt
Reviewed
Jan. 31, 2017
Constructed: 3.13
Casual: 4
Limited: 4.13
Multiplayer: 3
Commander [EDH]: 3
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David Fanany
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Battle at the Bridge
I would like to think that this card's name and
the metallic aether reaching out like extra arms
is a reference to Final Fantasy XII. I'm not
really sure how much the designers play JRPGs,
though (or other games in general!). Regardless,
this card's game text is pretty generic and the
X cost hurts it in comparison to other black
kill spells . . . on its own. But the addition
of improvise makes it worth a second look, along
with the fact that black decks often use
artifacts to shore up areas they have trouble
with anyway. There's already every reason to be
playing cards like Filigree Familiar and
Prophetic Prism, and enabling powerful effects
like this one is a nice bonus.
Constructed: 3/5
Casual: 4/5
Limited: 4/5
Multiplayer: 3/5
EDH/Commander: 3/5
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James H. |
Battle at the Bridge
Battle at the Bridge is a
kill spell that also gains you life in the
process. Improvise actually helps this, because
it makes it a far more efficient way to dispose
of creatures. This scales well to all parts of
the game, and you’ll rarely not have a use for
it.
Improvise means that this
synergizes well with a lot of artifact token
generation, so that you can go all-in on a cast
of this and still leave mana up to cast other
things. I don't know if the format has room for
this spell, since Fatal Push is usually more
efficient, but I could see this slotting in for
a deck that has trouble with big behemoths that
Fatal Push fails to nail.
Constructed: 3.25
Casual: 4
Limited: 4.25
Multiplayer: 3
Commander: 3
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