It's always a decent card in Legacy, so that could be why it's worth something now. But either way, it's still a powerful card. I've seen it show up in Fish decks from time to time, though I feel like it's better to just have more Lords. Thing is, there's a lack of good control decks with creatures you want to protect. You'd normally want to protect something like Stoneforge Mystic or something, against spot removal. There's a decent amount of spot removal in the format, but again, how often do you want to protect guys from spot removal? It's double blue, so you wouldn't find it easy to splash, and because the effect goes both ways, it won't work well in Pod.
It's a really good card for Delver-like tempo decks (fish too), since it protects your guys really efficiently so you can counter other important stuff and beat them with your little efficient guys in a few turns.
I use it in my RUG Delver as a SB card and it DESTROYS Jund, and Path to Exile reliant decks. I've even maindecked it in place of a Clique and didn't feel out of place at all with it's flying and 2 power
It gets played a lot in merfolk decks actually. It essentially gives all their dudes psuedo-shroud. It also has a lot of great play options with aether vial.
It would see more play if jund wasn't so prevalent. Jund's access to Jund Charm and pyroclasm makes kira mediocre against a magor metagame deck, no to mention the amount of hand disruption jund is capable of will often leave you with too few threats to make kira matter. Maybe if SFM gets unbanned in the future, I could see an esper "aether vial value dudes" deck coming together, but it's just not good enough right now.
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Does no one play this? Any why? I ran into it randomly some time ago and thought about how annoying sitting across it would be.
Grixis Death's Shadow, Jund, UW Tron, Jeskai Control, Storm, Counters Company, Eldrazi Tron, Affinity, Living End, Infect, Merfolk, Dredge, Ad Nauseam, Amulet, Bogles, Eldrazi Tron, Mono U Tron, Lantern, Mardu Pyromancer
I use it in my RUG Delver as a SB card and it DESTROYS Jund, and Path to Exile reliant decks. I've even maindecked it in place of a Clique and didn't feel out of place at all with it's flying and 2 power
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