Playing it in a black control deck with cards like street wraith could be okay. It could have some fun interaction with led, but it requires a lot of guys in hand to get any larger cc spells.
-rob
*include "goes into Nic Fit!" comment here"
I don't think it's that bad. However, it certainly isn't Legacy-level good.
The plus is bad. The minus is reasonable. The ultimate is at least actually reasonably game winning.
The CMC is reasonable. The starting loyalty is reasonable.
So, this is a reasonable card, if you can generate value off the plus and have a need for the minus. Probably Standard playable. Maybe Modern if you have a way to fulfill the aforementioned criteria.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Street Wraith is the only real enabler for it, beyond that the only shell that could make sense is something like Zombardment and even then it seems weak.
A better parallel for this card is Traverse the Ulvenwald given that’s a tutor with conditional requirements, and even that sees little-to-no play (though I’ve certainly tried to jam it in Turbo Depths to no avail).
Arclight Phoenix (?) - 3R
Creature - Phoenix (M)
Flying, Haste
At the beginning of combat on your turn, if you cast 3 or more instants and/or sorceries this turn, you may return ~ to the battlefield.
3/2
Probably not good enough for Legacy, but only because Hollow One.dec isn't really viable - but worth posting because free-to-play creature is free-to-play.
Barook is correct about nicfit obviously great in a rector build.
Wonder what else could help for goes to graveyard effects.
Abrupt decay is totally fine too.
-rob
It has Dr. Obvious synergy with Explorer, but I don't think it can make good use of a 4 mana enabler. Therapy and Tower are ideal, Diabolic Intent is rarely used anymore, and you can do fringe things like Liliana, the Last Hope and sac your Explorer that have significant impacts on the metagame. Playing it with Life from the Loam seems better, and I'm not sure that's good enough for even Bg pox. Maybe, I guess. In a straight Golgari shell of Nic Fit it might find a role, especially with Swagtusk. Seems like Nissa, Vital Force is still quite a bit stronger.
For modern I could see it in something grindy like Death Cloud. Kitchen Finks and Thragtusk are both pretty decent ways to create value with the first ability. The second ability is relevant, and the third seems pretty good in something with a lot of removal (like Death Cloud.) I could see Lilianas, Garruk Wildspeaker, new Vraska in a PW-heavy build of Death Cloud. Swamp Sakura-Tribe Elder for Viridian Emissary so the dies-and-gets-a-land clause works in your favor with the pw's.
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
Vraska could be good in some kind of BUG Hatching Plans-style deck that actively wants to sacrifice its own permanents, but even with her present as an upgrade, I don't know that it's a very good card.
The black tutor would fit pretty well into a cycling deck as far as enabling it goes. Archfiend of Ifnir, Street Wraith, and Vile Infestation are all actually Legacy level playable in a cycling deck, but what black cards do you want to tutor? All the good cycling tutor targets are red, white, colorless, or green.
Strangleroot Geist and Geralf's Messenger!!! BaROOOOOOOken.
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
One of the guys in our playgroup literally only ever plays home brews, regardless of format. Most are bad, but some are sometimes surprisingly resilient. While we don't play Modern often at all, he came up with a mono-Black Zombies deck that he brought to Regionals a couple years ago. He was X-1 and in top 8 contention until taking the loss in the last round of swiss and missing on breakers (his first loss was round 1).
It used Geralf's Messenger to great effect and was wrecking people all day. It wouldn't surprise me if your idea wasn't terrible in Modern, honestly. Decidedly tier two, but having more legs than I think almost anyone would give it credit for.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
I wonder what pushes WotC to do those terrible mana requirements. It's an Elf, so Symbiote shenanigans would be great, but that mana requirements are terrible, especially with DRS gone.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Brainstorm Realist
I close my eyes and sink within myself, relive the gift of precious memories, in need of a fix called innocence. - Chuck Shuldiner
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