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Granted, I am a no one, with no results to speak of, but I always found the life loss from Canopy a massive liability in D&T because there are far more times where one needs to stabilize, in my experience, at a low life total, vs. times where exchanging a land-drop and "two" mana for a "cylce effect" is worth it. Again, strictly my opinion and I don't have any metrics to back that up.
"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
This is probably the best printing DGA has had in years.
Canopy has always been a great card hamstrung by a few things:
-Lack of GW decks
-U+G/W decks having other draw engines available
-G decks tending toward land toolboxes (depths, maverick) squeezing out room
-W decks (D&T, stompy variants) running either a ton of other non-basics or cards like Ancient Tomb
The color combination matters. This taps for B on turn 1 so you can IoK/TS with it, then hymn them, then deploy a liliana. You can get the life back with equipment, or lifelink creatures, or whatever. You aren't leaning so heavily on Bob to draw extra cards. (Speaking of which, playing 4x life-sucking lands is the definition of greatness at any cost). I'm super excited to work with it.
Similarly RW getting this kind of effect is nuts but R is getting a lot of draw these days.
One place the black force would really shine in Legacy that isn't getting mentioned much is vs. Dredge. They can do their "make a bunch of dudes" plan, and you can wipe the board on their turn. Same with Phoenix decks. I think this card is better/has more uses that it's getting credit for.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Not Legacy playable, but this is such a mish-mash of abilities.
"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
Yea, you can play better Blue cards, but it's Stax. If you wanted to play good cards you would play something better, like Nourishing Lich.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
Collected conjuring look playable in some jank list, collected company for spells sounds abusable. Suspend spells, tinker for vintage, show and tell for legacy etc...
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