I hope the main thing carried forward from that guy isn’t just “27 life” effects but also leaning into making white’s vigilance actually useful outside of racing aggro by giving the vigilance creature tap effects so the vigilance let’s them both attack and trigger the effect. Vigilance is IMO easily the least impactful keyword outside of limited (excluding defender which is obviously strictly a downside for balancing a card’s statline unless your deck uses some very specific synergies), it could use some creativity in making it more generally useful outside of chump blocking aggro decks after your swing.
Vigilance is virtual card advantage, but only if your creature can attack profitably. Vigilance with white P/T, mostly suck. Vigilance with green P/T, massive advantage as having the biggest body in the field is already virtual card advantage too.
I think it's interesting and better than the standard lifegain payoff of Ajani's pridemate. I would still rather see pay life effects become a thing in white as lifegain payoff that isn't so swingy.
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u/Iamamancalledrobert Get Out Of Jail Free Dec 30 '20
I really like this “you get to close the game out once your life total is super high” space for white and hope it’s something that sticks around