@wfain agreed, amazing against Workshops may even be a stretch. Could this card get a lot of triggers against Workshops? Absolutely. Is that even good? I don't know. It kind of depends on the other 56 cards in the deck, and whether or not they give you the ability to leverage the card advantage into a win against a tempo deck.
@protoaddct said in [M19] Open the door, get on the floor everybody Runic Armasaur:
I keep asking how pushed a utility creature has to be to see play and this is close.
I know this is a tangent, but this statement confuses me. Are Snapcaster Mage, Phyrexian Revoker, Containment Priest, Walking Ballista, Deathrite Shaman, Jace Vrynn's Prodigy, Stinkweed Imp, Phyrexian Metamorph, Eldrazi Displacer, Inferno Titan, (etc etc) not utility creatures? What is a utility creature? I think creatures played for their power/toughness in vintage are the exception, aren't they?
Yeah I think a 3 color deck with 4 x DRS and let's say on color and lotus could reliably resolve this thing on the second turn. The issue is resolving the DRS. You end up with a Junk deck that has to play 3-4 Missteps and then you want to just quit building decks.
Check out the Survival deck on MTGO that's been running 5 mana elves and 0 Missteps.
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@hierarchnoble @wfain I swear to you I have played Workshop Dredge on stream before.
"This card would go great in my Workshop Dredge deck" is a phrase I never thought I'd be saying. But here we are.
Agree that this card is a winner. The set of decks that want this is fairly small, but it does what it does better than anything else in those decks. Not bad!
@prospero that's weird, polls shouldn't be locked for anyone. I can try adding it myself for now. Message me with what you want in the poll, and where you want to put it!
Ah, but if it's your deck's fault, then it is your fault.
I would say that Bomberman isn't playable online, but a Bomberman deck recently 5-0'd a daily, so who even knows anymore?
It's a sweet list, check it out.
@forceofnature That all sounds right to me .... and don't forget that your Fork gets copied, too ... so Bonus Round, Bonus Round, Fork means you'll be getting 6x each spell afterwards