CardName – Innistrad Remastered
Date Reviewed: January 29, 2025
Ratings:
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 3.37
Commander [EDH]: 3.63
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale. 1 is bad. 3 is average. 5 is great.
Reviews Below:
This is a really interesting card, both from a design perspective and from that of how many elements of wedding invitations they managed to jam into mechanical form. There are a lot of clauses on the card’s front face, and if you really had to jump through all of them just to get a Glorious Anthem variant, it really wouldn’t be worth it. However, it gives you a conditional form of card drawing, and/or creatures to meet that condition or to get boosted later on, and realistically probably both in most usual casting cycles. It might be more correct to think of Wedding Invitation as an “army in a can”, and its back face as a pseudo-Overrun effect that you can get for no mana and some time. That’s probably worth a lot more than three mana if you’re going by book values!
I will always find it hilarious when they give a double-faced card a retro frame version. I can’t think of anything less consonant with the pre-Mirrodin era than double-faced cards. The reason it took them almost 20 years to try double-faced cards, and the reason conventional Magic cards still have the same card back as Alpha, is largely because of game balance issues for people who play either unsleeved or with clear sleeves, and partly because it initially wasn’t clear they could legally change the back due to the terms of their previous contractual agreements.
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 3.5
Commander [EDH]: 3.5
Card draw into a static boost is potentially promising; Wedding Invitation lets you potentially get three cards on top of a +1/+1 boost to your team. The kicker is that you may not be able to draw cards, but the result is still auspicious in terms of warm bodies to maybe trigger the card draw. While this is slow, either way you look at it, it’s a pretty good bit of value for three mana, and it even gives you value if you play it in your second main phase after attacks. It’s not jaw-dropping, but white’s notorious for its shaky card draw (even now), and Wedding Invitation can help you smooth out pain points that way.
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 3.25
Commander [EDH]: 3.75
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