Evasion on the Fiend is nice, but the casting cost is just too restrictive. 5B vs. 7BB might seem small if you’re on the delve plan, but it’s a difference of getting the card out on the battlefield a turn or two sooner (with less delve setup.) If you get to untap w/ Tasigur on turn 4 (i.e. turn 2 Satyr Wayfinder > turn 3 Tasigur), you can swing for four, or start activating his ability for more cards. If you draw him late game, you can immediately mill for more cards on the same turn (…whereas the Fiend will just see play mid to late game, hoping to blank an opposing attacker and not much else.)

You don’t think the flying and removal (admittedly a nonbo with his delve) on fiend make him a better choice? A 4/5 with no evasion is pretty durdly and you won’t want to draw multiples the way you do with Siege Rhino.

Regardless, if this does see some play, it seems likely it would be in a post-rotation environment. That would actually be an ideal outcome – let the card hit bulk status where people who believe in the card can scoop armloads for nothing.

Why it’s worth a 2nd look:

1. Ease of casting – Delve for 5B will often be B – 2B which is quite undercosted for its…

2. Good base stats – 4|5 dodges Stoke, Strike, Blight, and punches through Courser 🙂

3. Repeatable source of card advantage. On a stalled board, this could just sit back and activate for 4cc eot for a free spell (albeit the worst one, assuming your opponent knows what he/she is doing). You don’t even get blown out if you choose to activate the 2nd ability tapped out as you still get a card back regardless.

4. This could either go to U/B control or B/G devo-whip decks (but most likely the former.) In tandem with delve spells in heavy circulation in standard like DTT and Murderous cut, you can sculpt your yard to get back a more relevant card with each activation.

As somebody who’s been playing a lot of U/W Heroic during Khans, I can’t wait (to possibly switch to U/B and…) playtest Tasigur. I think that its one of those cards (along w/ Crux and Ugin) that will push the archetype to the top.

Speaking of Ugin…

5. (The artificially inflated) 6cc on Tasigur dodges X=5 sweeps and below from Ugin 😀

What do you like about it?

Yeah, I realize when I said “this” the “it” later in the sentence makes it seem like I meant the spell not the creature. I knew that but did a shitty job conveying that.

Correct. I meant “at the cost of being able to summon a second creature because you’re using your mana to improve the first one you played”

…….I see nothing gets by you…..

George, if you activate the first ability, you’re not playing a creature on two. That’s why it’s “at the cost of a second creature”.