Do I expect it to shrug this one off? Not exactly, and therein lies opportunity. We have seen this card basically shrug off one reprint already. There are a lot of copies to soak up, but the card is powerful. This card seems like a pretty good target and I will be a little surprised if this isn’t $2 or $3 in a year or two. I think this is as cheap as it will ever get, it’s bannably good, it’s stupid in Yidris, it’s tough to reprint and I don’t feel like I need a fifth thing. Commander 2018 will bring it back down, but by then it will have gone up if it was going to. It basically has to go in Commander 2017 to hurt the price. When else can they reprint Dig? It’s not going in Eternal or Modern Masters, not in Standard. Treasure Cruise was reprinted in the Yidris deck which was a great opportunity to reprint Dig that they missed (or just didn’t decide to take). A card good enough to be banned in both of those formats is worth looking at, don’t you think? We’re about to see one of two scenarios pan out – either being banned in Modern and Legacy is too strong and EDH won’t be able to muster enough demand to soak up all of these copies and the card will go nowhere or the fact that it’s banned in Modern and Legacy means the card is stupid powerful and EDH will make a stupid powerful card end up worth money. This card is good enough to be banned in Modern and Legacy. A lot of the copies that get opened will end up in the deck that gets built as a result. There is a lot of supply to soak up, but we’re up to the challenge. At its current price, I feel like the risk is pretty low, the upside is pretty high and people are going to start noticing this card. If you’re playing with 5 people this is like 5 times better than Go For the Throat. I doubt undaunted stuff gets reprinted soon and I feel like any black deck can jam this if it wants to. This is the same and I feel like this is too cheap at $0.50. Speaking of Hex and Decimate, both of those spells are better in EDH and scale well into larger playgroups. We’re looking for two legal targets in a game with multiple opponents – it’s hardly a drawback. Granted, there is inherent weakness with this spell given you need two legal targets to cast it, but this isn’t Hex in Limited we’re talking about. All of the undaunted stuff is good in this deck (ish) but this is by far the best and I feel like it’s not relegated to decks where you’re trying to cast high CMC spells. Not only that, but you’re paying Dark Banishing mana for a spell that’s going to dome them for 6 with Vial Smasher and cascade into any CMC 5 or less spell when you cast this after hitting them with Yidris. With Curtain’s Call, you’re paying Dark Banishing mana and getting a double Go For the Throat with no color or type restrictions. You look at EDHREC and notice that like 3,500 people are jamming Go for the Throat in their decks. If you think about it, you’re most likely playing in a pod with 4 players which means 3 opponents which means a 3 mana reduction. I feel like I filed this under “I like this card OK but I don’t like it financially” which may have been because it was $2 or $3 pre-sale (I don’t remember) but I’m warming to this. This card is underrated and I feel like I bear some responsibility for that because I slept on this in my set review. With a new focus on spells that enable these two strategies, we could see some movement on a few key cards. Yidris has been the number 3 most popular commander searched for on EDHREC every day for the last month and Vial Smasher is not far behind. If you can cast an expensive spell you can both dome them with Vial Smasher and also cascade into good stuff. You still have to make contact with him, so cards that enable that are worth a look as well as spells that have a higher printed CMC than you end up paying. Did I mention this one lets us play black spells? Because this one totally lets us play black spells. Maelstrom Wanderer is a popular commander so it stands to reason that another cascade commander will also be popular. When you cascade, you get hecka card advantage and it’s also random so it’s fun, more fun than just tutoring for something. Cascading is a form of cheating in Magic that is somehow legal. “Maesltrom” is a word they put on magic cards to let you know they are going to be worth money. The word “Maelstrom” should make you take notice. Maybe you hear, like, your own voice in your head so technically you’re hearing it, but you’re not, like, “hearing” hearing it so your ears won’t perk up. If you’re just reading it in the article, you’re just reading it. Like, when you hear it, it should make your ears perk up. The word “Maelstrom” should make your ears perk up.
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