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James H. |
Aven Mindcensor
It turns out that, once
again, bird is the word. Mindcensor debuted all
the way back in
Future Sight,
and it has managed to annoy players for years
since. It cripples a lot of search effects (like
fetches!), it flashes in (to limit counterplay),
and it can get in there as a 2/1 flier. Its rate
of return in combat is not great, but it couples
a potent effect with a serviceable body.
The value of Mindcensor's
search limitation is most evident in Legacy and
Modern, but it can do some work in Standard.
Even if that half of it isn't amazing, it's
still a 2/1 flier with flash for 3 mana, and a
body like that has seen constructed play (albeit
not as reliably in this Standard environment).
Constructed: 3.75
Casual: 3.25
Limited: 3.25
Multiplayer: 4
Commander: 4
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Aven Mindcensor
This would be widely-known as a griefer card if
it weren't so frequently used against even more
unfair strategies. For example, I've long
maintained that the real issue with problematic
mana bases in Extended and Modern was actually
fetchlands, and the Mindcensor does a pretty
good job of keeping them in check (especially
for three-color plus decks, where statistics
dictates that the likelihood of a suitable
target in the top four cards is lower). It is of
course pretty fragile, which is actually less of
a problem in combo-heavy metagames where a
number of decks don't have space for creature
removal. You still shouldn't underestimate its
potential impact on surprising decks like Zoo,
though.
Constructed: 4/5
Casual: 3/5
Limited: 3/5
Multiplayer: 3/5
EDH/Commander: 3/5 |
