It's going to see play in Stax and Bomber Man, but I don't know what else. The reason is both those decks can make an arbitrary amount of Mana. I suspect it's home will be the last piece of a combo quite often, and little else.
Doesn't cost any more to put a counter on it than to put a counter on Triskelion. Legacy affinity doesn't play games with +1/+1 counters, but shops and modern affinity do.
I don't think that's right at all. This card is really good, certainly at least as good as Hangarback, and it all-but-completely obsoletes Triskeleon.
Like Trike, Ballista gives Ravager “double strike” in the sense that you can swing with Ravager, then sac Ravager to itself and modulate the counters over to Ballista and unload. It’s a potential turn 2 kill with the right hand, but ignoring that, the ability to turn Ravager counters into free pings is totally nuts. Being able to do this for 2 mana instead of 6 is huge.
On top of all of that, when you’re not doing amazing things, this is an artifact Fireball. For as much as you want to spend, it converts 2 mana into 1 damage. Does there exist a better source of mana-to-damage in artifacts? In all of Magic? I guess Aeoplile converts 3-to-2, so that’s better, but other than that I’m coming up short.
And then they have the audacity to give it a way to ramp itself up if you have 4 spare mana in the midgame? Insanity.
....and it gets EVEN BETTER. This guy is a mana sink for infinite mana combos to win the game -- from your hand OR FROM PLAY. He's a winning part of Hulk-Flash style lists. It slices, it dices, it does your laundry!
For fun, maybe some type of Construct Tribal?
Mana
4 Cavern of Souls
4 Ancient Tomb
4 City of Traitors
8 Lands
4 Mox Opal
4 Chalice of the void
Constructs
4 Hangarback Walker
4 Walking Ballista
4 Adaptive Automaton
4 Chief of the Foundry
4 Foundry Inspector
4 Memnite
4 Steel Overseer
Non-Construct Creatures
4 Arcbound Ravager
Also just saying its not strictly better than triskelion. 4/4 > 3/3
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It's all-but-completely better. You don't reach for a Trike because you want to pay 6 for a 4/4. You do so because you want a way to snipe off heatbears, act as a force multiplier with Ravager, and give you some reach. Having a card that can do this at 2, 4, 6, 8, or whatever instead of just at 6.
Metallic Mimic + Walking Ballista + Enduring Renewal ... slow for Legacy but maybe just right for Modern?
Just to point out, now that people have had a chance to actually play with Walking Ballista, the price has gone from $3.00 nonfoil to near $8.00 nonfoil since the 15th.
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/price/Ae...Ballista#paper
Card is good.
121.3. If a permanent has both a +1/+1 counter and a -1/-1 counter on it, N +1/+1 and N -1/-1 counters are removed from it as a state-based action, where N is the smaller of the number of +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters on it.
Metallic Mimic can act like Melira 5-8 naming ouphe/assasin to do infinite life/damage with sac outlet.
Does having more Meliraish effects improve this strategy or is GSZ for Melira make it unnecessary?
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