Interesting, this soft unbans mono white humans now and mono green devotion gets even better in historic. This is also a nerf to Yawg and the fact that Thalia is now playable again makes Kethis need to consider that card again.
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Oh yeah, forgot that Mono-Green can run 12+ 1-mana dorks now. Wonder if anything's gonna catch a nerf/ban or if that doesn't change it enough given they already had Halfling/Utopia.
The Bowmasters change seems like it brings the card in line with what it should have been in the first place. It still hates on card-drawing, but it's not a combat trick or instant-speed removal anymore.
Honestly though, they could have taken away the Amass ability too and I think it would still be playable, at least in sideboards.
Agreed, definitely still a viable sideboard card and would have also been good in Commander. The etb really just pushes it over the edge
Yea I agree. I played this in Dimir Control and now I just moved it to the sideboard. I think it will still be good against the control mirror, like Narset, at punishing card draw but what is crazy to me is that it seems like card draw is just gone from the format now. Most cards let you look at the top X and put them in your hand to avoid the insane card draw punishment they've been printing lately.
As much as I like drawing extra cards, I don't like it when formats get to a point where you have to draw extra cards to compete. There needs to be space for decks that just draw one efficient creature every turn or so and attack with it. So I approve of there being some amount of draw hate. On the other hand, if you're doing contortions to "put cards into your hand" instead of "drawing" them because of all the hate, that's probably too much.