MTG Salvation

Used to be better than it is now. I ran it for years, but recently it got cut because red 5-drops on turn 3 just aren't as good as they used to be, relatively speaking.

(even though Zealous Conscripts is very good, it is better on t5 than t3 usually)

-AA

Seems like it would be amazing one time out of ten. And it would be something swingy like a turn 3 inferno titan.

This is the opposite of the kind of card I want in cube.

Necroing this...

Is this card practical for anything outside of storm? I've been thinking again a bit more about how to enable more big red type decks and thought this could be pretty good for that if it works at all. It could also enable turn 3 Sneak Attack/Through the Breach or some explosive aggro plays. All situational, but it could be fun. Am I insane for thinking it could work?

I tried it as a value spell, and it was just too lacking. Most of the big mana red decks have artifact mana to provide their resource acceleration, and Song loses all the multi-archetype (and color) flexibility that something like Dark Ritual has. So outside of decks that can really "go off" with the mana (like the aforementioned Storm deck) it just didn't pull its weight.

I've run the card for years and I can state that it's not good out of storm shells. I've seen few drafters get it into their red cheat decks, like you referred to, but without that much succes. Not recommending it for none-storm cube at all.