[Discussion] Bringing Out the Dead - Underplayed Cards

[UniversalSnip]

Fixed.

And extended and type one. It's just an efficient card.

[xsockmonkeyx]

Also, @ monkey: Do you know if Lose Hope has been tested? I'd really like to know how it works out.

Dont know. Ask Hanni, he is usually on the ball. I think it would be pretty good in his fish deck, no?

[Mirrislegend]

And extended and type one. It's just an efficient card.

I'll give you that it has applications in Vintage, but Extended has Echoing Truth, in addition to so many other bounce spells. Repeal is the best bounce in T2, and is useable in a format chock full of 0-cc spells, and goes in most Tron decks, but it wont find a niche outside of that. And none of those 3 situations apply to Legacy

[UniversalSnip]

I'll give you that it has applications in Vintage, but Extended has Echoing Truth, in addition to so many other bounce spells. Repeal is the best bounce in T2, and is useable in a format chock full of 0-cc spells, and goes in most Tron decks, but it wont find a niche outside of that. And none of those 3 situations apply to Legacy

It's just good in blue control decks of all stripes.

Unfortunately the blue control decks in legacy are, as a rule, piles and it's very unusual for them to put up numbers in any large event. Classical blue control has inferior quality engines and that's all there is to it.

It has nothing to do with the capabilities of repeal itself.

[HdH_Cthulhu]

Now i have it!

Rise/Fall

This card could act as a Hymn or a bounce and graveyard return spell

[AngryTroll]

Just looking through cards spread all over my room, a couple screamed "Play me! Play me!!!!"

Crop Rotation

Fact or Fiction
Seriously...you are telling me the last time I played this card was in TJS (Tendrils Combo?) Come on....I think I just really want some UW control deck to be viable.

Troll Ascetic...once one of the three mightiest creatures (ok, so two creatures and a combo spell somehow printed as a creature...I'm looking at you, World-Gorger Dragon), now he doesn't even fit into RGbSA, where he was from the beginning.

Salvager's Game.
Ok, not a card, but an underplayed deck. Seriously.

Survival of the Fittest.
Come on....another underplayed archetype. There must be some combination of 56 other cards that makes this card incredible. I still play RGbSA, but there must be something stupid good that can be done with that card.

LED. You do the math. Come on, it should fit somewhere.

Anurid Brushhopper, Burning Tree Shaman
Both 3/4s for 3, with perks. Goblins hate to see the Shaman, and the Brushhopper is on-color to best make use of its abilities. LftL, Wrath, etc...there must be something cool to do with it. Seriously...3/4s for 3 can come down before Goblins gets a ton of disruption online, and might slip under Thresh's Counterspells.

The Split Second mechanic.
That green one should be in all sorts of sideboards, but what about some of the other cool ones? Weren't there some?

Psychatog!

Wild Mongrel
Another great aggro creature that seems to not get enough love.

Firestorm
A card that can cause huge card advantage...Rootwallas, Deep Analysis, Dredge cards, Eternal Dragon...there are a bunch of cards that can be pitched to this. OOh ooh! Fiery Temper!

These are just a couple of cards that come to mind. These are all cards that I have wanted to use at some point but couldn't find any good home to put them into. Anyway, I would really love to see some cards like Crop Rotation and FoF do broken things.

[HdH_Cthulhu]

Phyrexian Negetor! Witch deck plays bolt? (yeha burn... but what else?)

Bach 2 Basic -> MWS Nobody plays "Basic lands" I think people dont no that basics even exist in MWS...

[Atwa]

Phyrexian Negetor! Witch deck plays bolt? (yeha burn... but what else?)

Goblins (in the form of incinerator), Zoo, Zilla Stompy, Red Death. Only to name a few...

Also don't forget we play in a format filled with creature decks. Negator can be played in sideboards against storm combo decks, but shouldn't be played maindeck in a format filled with goblins, ********, fish, angel stompy etc.

[Plank]

Goblin Grenade? Good-bye Matron, Hello 5 to the dome.

[Shadow1798]

Goblin Grenade? Good-bye Matron, Hello 5 to the dome.

Goblin Grenade falls under the grievous crime of not being an actual goblin, and thus weakening Ringleader. Ringleader is not a card you want to be weakening.

[Bane of the Living]

Crop Rotation got me first place this week in a loam deck. Getting things like Glacial Chasm and Tabernacle whenever you want for one mana is a hot deal.

Heres a card people havent seen since Rifter was played.. HUMILITY

[laststepdown]

Armageddon.
(Definitely) Back to Basics.
Fact or Fiction.
Wildfire.
Chrome Mox.
Damnation.

[Mirrislegend]

Given the rise of fish decks, with Hanni Fish and some other rogue, but well built, UW Fish decks, that have good games against Goblins, I think this may be Goblin's tool to fight back:

Magistrate's Veto

Of course, Goblins prolly doesnt need it cuz its ridiculous anyways. Stupid gobbos.

[Mirrislegend]

Armageddon.
Wildfire.

The issue with those cards is that Legacy operates on such a low curve. It's what allows many decks to gain immense tempo advantages from very early on. Mass LD resets the land situation back to where these decks thrive. You would be doing Tier 1 a favor by running these.

[Pinder]

Court Hussar - Props to Pinder for running it in E.R.A. However, I'm not sure its Legacy-worthy. But definitely makes the cut in every more restrictive format; maybe it will here.

Ummm...Phantom invented ERA. I'm sure I'd run Hussars if I played it, though. Brainstorm with a 1/2 Vigilance attached can't be all bad.