[SCD] Grand Abolisher

[Greenpoe]

Suppression Field is sometimes played in Staxx.

[Tao]

No I didn't. I don't pretend that any evaluations of a card's strength or weaknesses is fact. You're flailing around desperately to try and make up something vaguely condemnatory you can stick me with.

Vendilion Clique is over-rated largely because people like doing things at instant speed, even when there is no advantage to doing so. Likewise people are overrating this bear because they like doing things at instant speed and infer that stripping this ability from their opponents will be inherently relevant.

I don't know if I can make the connection any more plain to you, or explain that when adults have conversations it's taken for granted that unless I say otherwise I represent no one's but my own opinion.

There is no need to explain that connection a fourth time. I understood it the first, second time and third time.

Imo there are advantages of playing Vendillion Clique EoT or in the opponent's draw step but that's only my opinion on a different card with its own pros and cons. I just won't argue about that card. The discussion would have gotten even more off-topic if I did that. But to even begin arguing about your point that Instant status is overrated I would have to do just that, deal with your irrelevant, off-topic Vendillion example.

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

There is no need to explain that connection a fourth time. I understood it the first, second time and third time.

Imo there are advantages of playing Vendillion Clique EoT or in the opponent's draw step but that's only my opinion on a different card with its own pros and cons. I just won't argue about that card. The discussion would have gotten even more off-topic if I did that. But to even begin arguing about your point that Instant status is overrated I would have to do just that, deal with your irrelevant, off-topic Vendillion example.

ITT: Tao does not understand what Ace of Diamonds has to do with Three of Clubs, they are completely different cards.

[Mr. Safety]

Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this new card better than Orim's Chant or Silence in a combo deck attempting to protect it's combo from countermagic/removal? They are easier to cast, not susceptable to removal, much more flexible, and if countered it at least fish out a counterspell that may have been shot at a combo piece. The already discussed Xantid Swarm is by far more mana efficient as a creature-based protection, conditional or not. The single G is much more pragmatic than WW.

If you're going to get your combo on, well get to it. But don't play an overcosted wuss like Grand Abolisher to protect it.

[Di]

Maybe I'm missing something, but how is this new card better than Orim's Chant or Silence in a combo deck attempting to protect it's combo from countermagic/removal? They are easier to cast, not susceptable to removal, much more flexible, and if countered it at least fish out a counterspell that may have been shot at a combo piece. The already discussed Xantid Swarm is by far more mana efficient as a creature-based protection, conditional or not. The single G is much more pragmatic than WW.

If you're going to get your combo on, well get to it. But don't play an overcosted wuss like Grand Abolisher to protect it.

You aren't going to see Cephalid Breakfast Vialing in any Orim's Chants. He's great for that deck, or really any creature-based combo deck that can Vial him in.






And he sucks in pretty much everything else.

[Mr. Safety]

Ahhh...I was forgetting Cephalid Breakfast. Good call there...and I agree with your second line, lol.