I want to talk about this card because I feel it may be the kind of card that finds a niche in an number of archetypes. Its obviously insane with Planeswalkers, and with a number of other abilities. It lets your Undying creatures get ever better, and most importantly it provides card advantage for all colors. Good with smokestack, Tangle Wire, Parallax Wave, and a number of other cards.
Its obviously not strictly better than any other 3 mana draw spell but there are a number or reasons a person might want it over other option.
As a card draw spell, I do see it as a more splashable Night's Whisper, and that in itself is not that bad. I feel that the one shot proliferate might not be powerful enough, though.
Personally If I want a bit of counter abuse, I will try Contagion Clasp first. It is even useful against aggro and elf-ramp. It works againt opponents' persist and for your undying creatures. Insta-proliferate is also good and frees up mana most of the time. Has anyone tried it?
What I have found valuable about the Gambit is that you can splash it in a deck carrying colours that are traditionally lousy at card advantage.
The number of times I have drafted hard green or white, stumbled upon the Gambit late in the draft, and had it come through for me...
I think the proliferate is pretty negligible. One shot poliferate isn't even that great with planeswalkers 90 % of the time. I think the only deck I would run this in would be maybe mono green ramp, and I'd have to have a pool of 21 green cards this and be stuck with 18 lands. My analysis of the card is:
1) like is said a one time proliferate isn't great. The best two things I can think of doing with it is proliferating stax or ever flowing chalice.
2) divination is a bad card. Far from cubable.
3) sure this card is any colors version of a gimped nights whisper, but it's severely gimped. One extra mana is alot for a draw 2 spell. Not to mention nighswhisper itself isn't the card it used to be. I really like the card, but I noticed some people have been cutting it.
4) As creatures get cheaper and cheaper and better and better spells need to do more then fair things with added life loss, and 2 cards for 3 mana is the defenition of core set fair.
Edit - its worth noting that I am evaluating this as a card for an average sized (360-5xxish) powered or non-powered (not tribal, peasant, or pauper) cube. It may warrant some inclusion in cubes out of this range.
I want to talk about this card because I feel it may be the kind of card that finds a niche in an number of archetypes. Its obviously insane with Planeswalkers, and with a number of other abilities. It lets your Undying creatures get ever better, and most importantly it provides card advantage for all colors. Good with smokestack, Tangle Wire, Parallax Wave, and a number of other cards.
Its obviously not strictly better than any other 3 mana draw spell but there are a number or reasons a person might want it over other option.
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Personally If I want a bit of counter abuse, I will try Contagion Clasp first. It is even useful against aggro and elf-ramp. It works againt opponents' persist and for your undying creatures. Insta-proliferate is also good and frees up mana most of the time. Has anyone tried it?
The number of times I have drafted hard green or white, stumbled upon the Gambit late in the draft, and had it come through for me...
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another Ravnika mechanic that is awesome with gambit and proliferate in general.
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1) like is said a one time proliferate isn't great. The best two things I can think of doing with it is proliferating stax or ever flowing chalice.
2) divination is a bad card. Far from cubable.
3) sure this card is any colors version of a gimped nights whisper, but it's severely gimped. One extra mana is alot for a draw 2 spell. Not to mention nighswhisper itself isn't the card it used to be. I really like the card, but I noticed some people have been cutting it.
4) As creatures get cheaper and cheaper and better and better spells need to do more then fair things with added life loss, and 2 cards for 3 mana is the defenition of core set fair.
Edit - its worth noting that I am evaluating this as a card for an average sized (360-5xxish) powered or non-powered (not tribal, peasant, or pauper) cube. It may warrant some inclusion in cubes out of this range.