Quote Originally Posted by Dice_Box View Post
Personally, I am looking more at Earth as a card. That's the one that has my eye.
They will probably fit two different roles, earth is a sweeper (like kozilek's return or similar) and it's probably the best fitting one because can kill large creatures and could be dredged without fear; drop deals with very problematic creatures like tnn or leovold. Imho it's mostly a meta call and also depends on what you are struggling against: earth seems better vs aggro decks, drop vs midrange and tempo decks. Elves will probably ignore drop while earth will be a game winner but it's useless vs tnn and they seems equivalent vs taxes, delver, bug...earth seems better vs gixis but is mana intensive that makes it slower/easier to counter. All that said mine is pure academy because I almost always played without sweepers and the few times I used one my sweeper of choice was k.return