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Mikeymike
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AEther Vial - 1
Artifact (U)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.
T: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand into play.
Let me tell you, I really like this card. I'm pre-adding it to my Power Conduit deck. Its important to note that it never loses its counters.
Ignoring combos for a second, this is what this card essential does:
- It allows you to largely ignore color dependent CC (Fangren Firstborn for instance, or off color creatures)
- Its nearly uncounterable (only Stifle can counter it, which is a bad play b/c you can just try it again next turn)
- (Best use) it allows you to play creatures as instants, after sorcery speed removal
- It allows you to somewhat fight off mana screw (either lack of land screw or color screw), as it is method for dropping your threats into play without the appropriate resources.
Dropped early, it builds a huge tempo advantage for your creature based deck.
Example in an Aggro-green build:
Turn 3 (Vial has 2 counters) - Hard Cast Sword of Fire & Ice. On opponent's EOT, drop Viridian Zealot
Turn 4 (Vial has 3 counters) - Equip Zealot, keep mana open for Zealot. They do what they will on turn, on their EOT, you Drop Troll Ascetic)
Turn 5 (Vial has 4 counters) - Equip Troll maybe, or cast something for 3 (keeping 2 mana open for Zealot). On opponent's EOT, drop a Fangren Firstborn
Combo wise, it is another card that makes Power Conduit extremely strong. The Conduit can add counters early, and remove counters late according to what is in your hand.
It is also a strong option for toolbox style 187 builds, running bounce (Umbilicus, Erratic Portal, Crystal Shard)
In a creature-based deck it essentially gives you a 3rd main phase to cast creatures on your opponent's turn, all for the cost of 1 mana.
I think this will prove itself to be a very strong card
Artifact (U)
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a charge counter on Æther Vial.
T: You may put a creature card with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Æther Vial from your hand into play.
Let me tell you, I really like this card. I'm pre-adding it to my Power Conduit deck. Its important to note that it never loses its counters.
Ignoring combos for a second, this is what this card essential does:
- It allows you to largely ignore color dependent CC (Fangren Firstborn for instance, or off color creatures)
- Its nearly uncounterable (only Stifle can counter it, which is a bad play b/c you can just try it again next turn)
- (Best use) it allows you to play creatures as instants, after sorcery speed removal
- It allows you to somewhat fight off mana screw (either lack of land screw or color screw), as it is method for dropping your threats into play without the appropriate resources.
Dropped early, it builds a huge tempo advantage for your creature based deck.
Example in an Aggro-green build:
Turn 3 (Vial has 2 counters) - Hard Cast Sword of Fire & Ice. On opponent's EOT, drop Viridian Zealot
Turn 4 (Vial has 3 counters) - Equip Zealot, keep mana open for Zealot. They do what they will on turn, on their EOT, you Drop Troll Ascetic)
Turn 5 (Vial has 4 counters) - Equip Troll maybe, or cast something for 3 (keeping 2 mana open for Zealot). On opponent's EOT, drop a Fangren Firstborn
Combo wise, it is another card that makes Power Conduit extremely strong. The Conduit can add counters early, and remove counters late according to what is in your hand.
It is also a strong option for toolbox style 187 builds, running bounce (Umbilicus, Erratic Portal, Crystal Shard)
In a creature-based deck it essentially gives you a 3rd main phase to cast creatures on your opponent's turn, all for the cost of 1 mana.
I think this will prove itself to be a very strong card