MTG Salvation

Anyone have playtest results on this guy? I recently added him to my 450 and he has been preforming pretty well, and even won me a couple matches. Pro white and a black guy seems to be more relevant than pro black on a white guy. I think Mr. Infamous could be a solid contributor.

What do you guys think?

It really depends on what kind of black aggro support you have, but he's a good replacement for black knight or a random pump knight.

The mana cost not being BB is the main selling point here. I'm not sure if he is good enough for rare cubes..

I cut him from mine for not being good enough, he's just a duder and the exalted really only mattered a few times. And I'm not looking for a 2/1 with pro white.

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I cut him from mine for not being good enough, he's just a duder and the exalted really only mattered a few times. And I'm not looking for a 2/1 with pro white.

It's too bad - this card is very cool.

At 720, this guy replaced Stromgald Crusader for me. And the only reason I kept Stromgald Crusader around was because of the random synergy with Gravecrawler.

We played him at 450 and just cut him. He's fine, but mediocre. Pretty universally we agreed that Wretched Anurid would've been better in his place almost every time (the one time that wasn't the case was when Pro-White actually mattered, which I'm not counting on)

I wanted him to be good. He wasn't. Moving on.

I'm currently just using him as a placeholder until something better rolls around.

I'm running him because I don't want to run the 2 drop shadow guy. Maybe I'll just run interloper instead. I have never acctualy drafted this guy yet.

It's not an amazing card, but it's been pretty solid for us around here. It's a very flexible beater, unlike many of the black 2 drops.

He's been real good for me

I've been impressed with it in very limited testing. Pro-white is really powerful, and exalted is usually quite strong in the midrange decks he gets tossed into.

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I have no love for random protection guys. Against white decks this guys performance is so much higher than against non white decks. I hate that variance, and for no reason other than your opponent had the audacity to play a particular colour. None of the protection knights will ever see my cube. I hate them.

I think many of them are perfectly fine. None of them are over the top good. I think they add a dynamic to drafting that can be interesting. If I'm drafting black and I see a chameleon colossus or paladin en-vec it makes me think about my deck and wheather I have a way to address those cards.I mean I cube with phantom centaur and no one has ever said. "that card is so cheap! I'm only losing because I play burn, black cards, and/or hope to interact favorably through combat damage."

protection is simply part of the game, and a plethera of 2 drops are necessary if you want aggro to be an archetype in your cube.

This guy is in the same camp as Mirran Crusader to me - it's sweet enough without the protection, and great with it. Granted, mirran crusader is a much better card in general, but a 2/1 exalted for 2 is solid.

No two drop with protection from a color will ever step foot into my cube.
I think protection from particular colors is an incredibly bad mechanic in limited.
Especially on low drops

Even flavorwise, I never understood why they couldn't even attempt to block the guy.

I've had good experiences with this card. The ease of casting cost has helped it slide into B/R + B/W aggressive decks and the exalted ability has been relevant multiple times. I'm sure the card will be outdated in time but for now it helps contribute to the critical mass of aggressive black low drops.

Also, he helps your 1-drop by providing exalted. Having an immediate damage impact on the board is really nice.

-AA

I didn't really like it before, so I can't imagine cubing this now outside of a big cube supporting black aggro.

Cheers,
rant

It was barely fringe-playable before. Things have only gotten worse for it.