Edit: Better translation:
"Dire Fleet Daredevil"
Human - Pirate
First Strike
When "Dire Fleet Daredevil" ETBs, exile target instant or sorcery from an opponent’s graveyard. You may cast that card this turn and you may spend mana as though as it were mana of any color. If that card would be put into a graveyard this turn, exile it instead.
2/1
Lack of flash, AWESOME and having to rely on your opponent's spells in a DRS environment is so much worse than Snapcaster Mage. But the question is whether or not it's still worth it, despite all of that?
I mean, it maybe punishes playing Hymn and Strix; it's a step in the right direction. Fringe application vs Loam, but it really should be black (flavor is that of Hedonist's Trove) - this would have also broken some of the power of Pyroblast vs UB.
Hymn would be 4 mana to cast, at which point the impact might be already quite diminished. You're probably better off with casting stuff StP, Bolt, AD, Brainstorm and other cantrip shenanigans (excellent with Gitaxian Probe) from it. Also, it synergizes well with your own Hymn since you can use discarded spells to fuel Daredevil.
Also, how does it punish you for playing Strix? It's a creature.
Calling it now, Stealcaster is the best card of the set (barring another even better card being spoiled) and a future staple for any list playing vials or a red stompy shell. Aggressively costed, decent body, CA source in a color that sorely needs it, potential for huge blowouts with vial shenanigans, disrupts decks that use their graveyards for value (from snap to drs to loam to p.fire or delve creatures), Human subtype, never dead except in a handful of matchups like Eldrazi or Stax - there are going to be many decks who want to play this little guy.
Lack of flash kills it for me... At least it could have been proactive graveyard hate against Snapcaster if they added that keyword.
On the positive side, you can use it to exile cards in the opponent's GY - though that's basically just loam and raven's crime, right? (Without flash it doesn't really mess up storm decks.)
I would expect to see people try it in 5c humans in modern. In legacy the most likely value stuff to hit is ponder and brainstorm.
For what it's worth, it can be fetched with both types of Recruiters.
It's hard to say if it can find a home in Legacy, but it's certainly an interesting card. Who doesn't want to play 4x Brainstorm, 4x Snapcaster and 4x the opponent's Brainstorms?
Rules question: If you use it on a Delve spell, you can remove cards from your GY to pay the colorless, correct? Given how OP the spells in Vintage are, this might be cool.
If it had haste instead of first strike I could see an argument in a Burn as sideboard tech against a few cards, but if the choice is between dealing damage and doing something cute, the answer is to always do damage, so this isn't good enough.
Edit: How does this work with split cards?
Also, did we have colorless card filtering this cheap before? Top aside, but that card was bullshit anyway.
Split cards not on the stack always have the combined CMC as their only CMC now. This was changed when As Foretold got printed.
Ah, I forgot about that. Thanks.
That said, I looked it up and it's indeed the cheapest card filtering tool since Top. Darksteel Pendant is the only other card that could compete with it in terms of cost, but Scry 1 can't get rid of dead cards in hand.
Since Gateway asks about CMC, exiling lands counts as , right?
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