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  • There’s a lot going on here. 7 mana over 2 turns to draw 2 and make a 4/4 flyer might be solid. The issue is it doesn’t let you use mana of any color to cast the spells you exile, so you have to generate treasures by attacking or be playing the mirror to use them (or hit spell + a land to cast it). This will feel real bad when you cast the adventure on turn 3, hit two spells you can’t cast, and they answer it before it attacks.

    That said, card advantage, a solid body and ramp can be good. I think it’s likely too weak to see play in standard main decks, but could be a strong play out of the board.




  • Well, thinking about this more, there’s a slim chance it could combo kill. You’d need two things. First, Vorinclex, Monsteous Raider in play. Second, a repeatable source of paying life. Something like an expensive enchantment with “pay X life: surveil 1”. It’s be a three card combo, but you could drop Ashiok, exile your library until you have mana value in exile equal to or greater than your opponents library size, then ult, mill them out, and they die on draw step.

    That said, that’s a lot to ask for. And it’s pretty unlikely we’d get an abusable life paying outlet. You could also do it with some sort of “pay any amount of life” but that’s even more unlikely in standard.


  • I think you’re right. 5 mana draw a card or 5 mana make, at best, 2 2/2s isn’t ideal. Interesting with phyrexian mana but how often will you be able to play this and another spell in the same turn.

    If there is support in set for paying life as a cost, maybe this sees play? But it’d be a lot for the meta to allow a slow PW in a suicide black style deck that also wins by milling.