Seeing play in 510 decks, Wipe Away features split second, one of the best mechanics ever printed in Magic. On a personal note, definitely pick this up if you have friends who run mono-green stax decks in your meta. Heliod, God of the Sun and Derevi, Empyrial Tactician give Pentarch Paladin vigilance and pseudo-vigilance respectively, allowing it to attack and then hit a problem permanent. Brago, King Eternal and Roon of the Hidden Realm can both flicker this card, allowing you to select a different color. Tails and Paladin basically make a mono-white Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim. Enchantments, creatures, planeswalkers, colored artifacts, Dryad Arbors.even without a flicker package, this guy is going to make your scariest opponent's game miserable.Įight-and-a-Half-Tails, who turns all of your opponents' stuff white, plays this card the most at 95 decks. Running this in a deck with lots of flicker effects like Conjurer's Closet, in conjunction with a haste-like enabler like Thousand-Year Elixir, can yield a really efficient piece of hate tech.
#Time spiral full
Five mana is pretty expensive for a 3/3 body, but check out that activated ability! This is one of those cards your opponents will never see coming, and can wreck a meta full of mono-color decks. Pentarch Paladin is a color-hosing removal engine that sees play in 394 decks. Any white deck with a weenie and/or token swarm theme could run this card effectively, incurring minimal downside from the added cost. Tolsimir Wolfblood makes up two of the creatures you need for this card with just him and his Voja token. Other commanders are pretty good at making lots of tokens to fuel spells like this commanders like Darien, King of Kjeldor, and Rhys the Redeemed. Kemba, Kha Regent, who poops out cat creature tokens, plays this card the most at five decks. If you're looking for a cheap backup to your mono-white removal package, this card may be worth checking out. The extra cost can even be helpful if you run cards like Order of Whiteclay. Gaze doesn't give your opponents any life like StP, it doesn't give them a land like Path to Exile, and it does have flashback, unlike either of those more popular cards. But a worse Swords to Plowshares is still Swords to Plowshares.
Yes, you have to tap three untapped white creatures you control to cast it. Gaze of Justiceis another one-mana white removal spell that sees play in 73 decks.
#Time spiral archive
If Alhammarret's Archive is out.well, you do the maths. A dedicated lifegain deck can easily get to 50 life, one-shot an opponent with the Reservoir, sacrifice said Children to regain that 50 life, and shoot another poor unfortunate soul. Any commander with swingy life plays should be able to find some use for Children of Korlis.Įditor's Note: The Children play very well with Aetherflux Reservoir. Oloro, Ageless Ascetic decks are usually obsessed with lifegain, and can pull some fun tricks with Children of Korlis. Children of Korlis can help Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim recover from a big hit. Mason Brantley did a fantastic breakdown of why Selenia, Dark Angel plays this card the most at 103 decks. This card makes the life cost on cards like Bond of Agony, Fire Covenant, Toxic Deluge, and Treasonous Ogre basically free, and arbitrarily large, up to the amount of life you have to start with. But beware commander damage! You can still die to 21 damage from a voltron, or sufficiently big, commander. Combined with cards like Alhammarret's Archive and Rhox Faithmender, Children of Korlis can actually gain you double the life lost in a given turn. I bent the rules slightly, so today we're going to look at cards that see play in about 500 decks or less, but should see play in more.Ĭhildren of Korlisis a twist on the classic fog that sees play in 514 decks. Everyone knows about Jhoira of the Ghitu, and Delay, but what else lies hidden in this set from 2006? You may notice that I had to stretch a bit. In addition to bringing back flashback, Time Spiral introduced us to the temporal keywords suspend, split second, and, the previously unkeyworded, flash. Then we visited Planar Chaos. Hm, is this a pattern? Yes, we've been doing Time Spiral block in reverse, and that means that today we're going to the past to visit the set that kicked off this crazy block. Maybe you've noticed a theme in my last two columns.