Comments on: Insider: Digging up the Plants – 2013 Edition

By: Corbin Hosler

Corbin Hosler — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:29:31 +0000

In reply to JasonAlt. I see what you did there.

By: JasonAlt

JasonAlt — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:06:07 +0000

This should have been called \”Digging Up the Carpet\”. Because you had to dig up your carpet. When your house flooded.

By: Corbin Hosler

Corbin Hosler — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:40:30 +0000

In reply to Brecht Van Reusel. Gift and Unflinching Courage I think are good ones to pick up, the former for Devotion things and the latter just on power level. And yeah, while I won't be going super deep on any of these outside of D-Sphere and Bounty, this will inform my trading over the next several weeks/months.

By: Corbin Hosler

Corbin Hosler — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:39:04 +0000

In reply to Marco Groppelli. It's possible. I thought about that one, but eventually decided that even if such a deck exists the effect is just not powerful enough. If we reach a critical mass, though, it's possible.

By: Corbin Hosler

Corbin Hosler — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:38:22 +0000

In reply to koen_knx. Yeah, it turns out I did not understand it correctly. Ajani's Chosen is still bulk and will be bulk when it's all said and done, unless it's not. Still a no-lose situation.

By: Marco Groppelli

Marco Groppelli — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:42:04 +0000

I quite like Oath of the Ancient Wood, too. It triggers upon entering the battlefield, so it affects the board even if it gets removed. It also works very well with enchantment creatures: if there are enough playable enchantment creatures to build a deck around them, I could see the Oath being played in it.

By: koen_knx

koen_knx — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 14:03:27 +0000

In reply to allisdust. Just as I was thinking, the enchantment creatures (these are NOT the gods !) only become aura's when you pay for the bestow cost; so if played for their normal cost they will trigger Ajani's chosen to make a token but they can not be attached to that token. Obviously the developers took care of this chance on undermining the ability.

By: allisdust

allisdust — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:39:44 +0000

Ajani’s Chosen – The God enchantments are only Auras if you play the Bestow cost.

I picked up a few Ajani Chosen 🙁

By: Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 10:16:25 +0000

I like Awaken the Ancient. It adds 3 to Devotion and is an effect that has been playable in the past.

By: Brecht Van Reusel

Brecht Van Reusel — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:55:05 +0000

Personally, I think there are so much opportunities now that we better bet on the right horse instead of blind speculation.

I used to think like this, and I ended up (like most of us) with a big pile of splinterfrights.

It’s best to profit of the summer dip and target the sure bets.

For me, all of these are watch cards, except detention sphere, which is a safe bet because it already saw play, even in eternal formats.

Additions: the uncommons/commons. There are a few decent ones in RTR block. madcap skills

verdant haven

ethereal armor

pursuit of flight

gruul war chant

unflinching courage

gift of orzhova (for devotion lovers)