Second, you have to have guys with power high enough to make this interesting, which usually means infect or equipment, and R/X infect doesn’t seem like a great archetype. First, you have to have a bunch of evasive guys, since it being a sorcery makes it pretty hard to get through it isn’t like they aren’t gonna chump your 5-power double striker with a Myr. There are a lot of moving pieces needed to make the Strobe playable. I understand the appeal of Berserking your infect guys, and this is a way to do so in Standard, but it’s just not gonna happen. T1 Spellbomb, t2 Myr, t3 Copper Steed is normally a sick start… When they play a Myr into a 4-drop and you clear them both out with Arc Trail, you will understand. The reason it is so unreal is just the makeup of the format creatures are smaller than normal, due to the speed, and Myr + infect guys all give you excellent targets for the 1 damage part.
In reality, Arc Trail is more like a 4.25 better than the rest of the removal spells but not quite as good as an absurd bomb. The choice between Clasm and the other two is easy, and picking which fork on the trail you go between Arc Trail and Forked Bolt is wholly format dependent are there decks with 2 and 1 toughness creatures, or just decks with 1’s? It is nice that we get to pick between Clasm, Arc Trail, and Forked Bolt, and I suspect it will not be too difficult to figure out which you want. Forked Bolt is also clearly in the same league, and does cost less mana, but can’t accomplish the important task of killing Fauna Shaman and the Bird she rode in on. The decks that are going to lean on Arc Trail are decks with their own guys that die to Clasm and aggressive decks, categories which often overlap. Ramp has nothing that dies to it, and being able to damage players is pretty irrelevant. In a control deck, like Valakut Ramp, I would always play Pyroclasm if that sort of effect is what the deck needs. The obvious competition for Arc Trail’s slot is Pyroclasm, but the differences here are significant enough that the two cards are able to appeal to different decks. (10%)Ġ.0: I will never put this card into my deck (main deck or after sideboarding). (30%)Ġ.5: There are situations where I might sideboard this into my deck, but I’ll never start it. (50%)ġ.0: I feel bad when this card is in my main deck. (70%)ġ.5: This card will make the cut into the main deck about half the times I play this color. (Given that I’m playing that color, I will play this card 90% of the time.)Ģ.0: If I’m playing this color, I usually play these. If playing that color, I essentially always play these.
(Given that I’m playing that color, I will play this card 100% of the time.)Ģ.5: Several cards of this power level start to pull me into this color. Period.Ĥ.5: I will almost always play this card, regardless of what else I get.Ĥ.0: I will strongly consider playing this as the only card of its color.ģ.5: I feel a strong pull into this card’s color.ģ.0: This card makes me want to play this color. (I believe it was tech vs Owling Mine, although fairly suspicious tech at that.) Limitedĥ.0: I will always play this card. (Bear in mind that many cards fall into this category, although explanation of why is obviously important)ġ.0 It has seen play once. Sideboard or currently unknown archetype. Goblin Guide.Ģ.5: Role-player in some decks, but not quite a staple. Mana Leak.ģ.5: Good in multiple archetypes, but not a format staple. Plus, who doesn’t like expensive planeswalkers?Īs usual, the ratings scales are as follows: Constructedĥ.0: Multi-format All-Star. Red has a bunch of cards for different mono-red decks, which is cool, and a couple of decent burn spells for other decks. Well, that isn’t true, but I certainly don’t play mono-red very often, and mono-red seems like the flavor of the day here. For those of you who missed my first couple reviews, here are white, blue, and black.Īh, red, the color I never play.
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