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Gathering = destroy artifact/enchantment 🤷🏾
Really? I think essence scatter in limited formats has been getting better and better as creatures go up in power. We just saw essence capture be pretty good in OTJ, even if Blue itself wasn't.
And having the option to counter a game redefining non-creature spell is good.
It is a very hard commitment to Blue though.
I do like the cost for activating costing only 5 rather than 7 or 8.
Decent all round removal for a removal light food deck. Though since BG looks to care most about food, they shouldn't be that removal light most of the time.
Edit: and playing this on turn two doesn't look like where you want to be. Probably a clunker, but has a home in one deck that Sam Black finds that counts on getting them late.
I'm glad this is uncommon because the strictly worse this from LCI was plenty good enough.
Decent flavour text that helps build up the world and matches the art without being glib or a Wedon-quip. I love it.
Also, makes all your paying offspring costs replace the card. Not a bad little go wide payoff.
This one being only two mana, that's not much of an issue here. For all the 4 and 5 mana racoons, I'm a little more skeptical. Maybe if there is enough ramp that you can skip 2 or 3 drops and play a 4 on 3 consistently... Rabbits and mice both look fairly aggressive, plus big things is a good way to 1 for 1 and end up falling behind.
Like the others so far have said, if government is to justify its continued existence it needs to be for the good of all the people, not just those with capital.
It still implies a level of hierarchy and control, which isn't good and will tend to lead to centralisation and corruption because power tends towards collecting more power.
But if it could be making life on the ground better for all the people, (food, shelter, education, preventing the environmental destruction that private ownership has bought) not at the expense of people within or without it's borders (even that one child in the secret basement), them it'd be a damn sight better.
But for 2 years less than this card will in standard... Let's see if they print another exile wrath before then.
I had totally missed that it only worked for spells... I'm now much less happy with this mechanic.
It's at a base a 5/5 flyer for 5 that deals 2 to oppo's face when it comes it. Not bad, very good in limited as a removal check.