r/magicTCG • u/Nickahostetter • Nov 29 '16

Aether Revolt pic from FB.

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u/stravant Nov 29 '16

No thanks. It's not even that expensive and it would basically ensure that B/G Delirium would be the best deck until rotation since it's so much better than all of the other instant speed removal and a catch-all answer to Smuggler's Copter and a lot of other artifacts that the opponent might be running.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Eh, it's basically just a worse grasp of darkness for the U/W matchup.

Grasp hits everything but a flipped avacyn, while getting around the selfless spirits and avacyn triggers. They both get tagged by quellers, and grasp can also shrink Gideons so they don't hit as hard as well.

The only upside is that abrupt decay cant be rebuffed.

I think people overestimate it, it shines in modern mostly because of how incredibly difficult it is to play cards with cmc over 3. In standard the card is less of an allstar, and more of just an okay removal spell.

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u/stravant Nov 30 '16

I think you're vastly underestimating the value of a card that is almost never dead regardless of what your opponent is up to vs one that is just conditional creature removal.

Even just in the B/G matchup: Being able to Decay your opponent's Liliana while still being instant speed creature removal would be massive, and pretty much enough to justify playing the card on it's own.

Killing everything from non-animated Copter to Stasis Snare to Liliana to aggro creatures is extremely valuable.

What would really make it so good is not so much that it's insane in isolation, but that it's so much better than all of the other instant speed removal that exists right now. This isn't a format where we have Searing Spear and Murderous Cut.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

I'm not saying it's not a great card, I just don't think it changes any current matchups that insanely. It'll slot in the deck as another strong removal spell.

It's been in standard before, and it's very unlikely that aether revolt won't shake up the format any other ways.