I’ll be honest, this never showed up on my radar so I’m guessing it didn’t have too large an impact on the price.

Agreed, in lots of turbo lands style decks along with the standard tezzerator deck.

Can’t really afford to make mistakes like that for the prices this site charges, Derek. When I’m paying over a hundred dollars a year to read your words, I expect that they are not only accurate and insightful in terms of subject matter, but also grammatically correct. Your fellow authors don’t seem to have this problem, at least on the finance side (I don’t read the strategy articles), and I have previously noticed grammatical errors in your articles–although they’ve certainly gotten better over the past few months. Also, you seem rather defensive about this, so I have to assume that it’s been brought to your attention before now (unless this is a case of tone not carrying over in a written format, although I can sense a lot of sarcasm in the words “…grammar aficionados such as yourself savor pointing out,” so I’m guessing that I’ve got a good impression of your overall tone).

In any case, I appreciate your writing, and that of the rest of the finance authors here on QS, but when we in the service industry receive critical feedback from our customers, it often comes right before they vote with their wallets–although, the OP seemed very friendly and not at all threatening in his comment.

My first thought was Huntmaster, he also appeared in a middle small set and was completely underestimated at first.

I 100% expect Brian Kibler to be playing this card at Pro Tour Fate Reforged

I hadn’t realized we have a 2nd, free editor. I should start placing grammatical/spelling errors into every article to see if he or she finds them 🙂

You’ll have to talk with my editor on that one; surely he changed it to something completely incorrect as I would NEVER make the their / they’re mistake that grammar aficionados such as yourself savor pointing out.

Friendly observation: the word you’re looking for is “they’re”.

My first question is to ask “what decks does this fit into?” I’m certain this doesn’t have a home in grindier Abzan Midrange decks – turning your game-winning planeswalkers and versatile removal spells into 2/2s seems less than ideal. The aggro Abzan decks could jam this – the “wolves” turning into Fleecemane Lions or surprise 4/5-tramples feels like a winning proposition. The issue is that 5 mana competes with Wingmate Roc.

Gruul and Temur decks experience something similar – lots of dudes, so you can often manifest into sweet things, but you’re still competing with smashier [I’m avoiding saying “better” or “worse” during a card analysis, on principle] 5-drops in Sarkhan and Stormbreath Dragon. However, across the board, Gruul/Temur decks benefit way more from manifesting sweet dudes face-up due to the general lack of comes-into-play effects. If this is seeing play, I believe I found the existing archetypes this slots into.

Second question: does this fit into any new archetypes?

…*shrug* We don’t have enough info yet.

Third, and final, question: do EDH players want this? I’d say “potentially.” Someone who’s more in touch with the EDH scene can offer better insight.

All said, I see this being a solid card in Standard, but not seeing play as more than a 2-of unless Wraths suddenly become much more prevalent. I’d put it in the $3-6 range once the dust settles due to some small demand in certain flavors of green.