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[Gren]

Card of the Day for Thursday, April 12th 2012

Card Name »  Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
Mana Cost » 3UU

Expansion » Avacyn Reborn

Type » Planeswalker - Tamiyo

Card Text » +1 Tap target permanent. It doesn't untap during it's controller's next untap step.

-2 Draw a card for each tapped creature target player controls.

-8 You get an emblem with "You have no maximum hand size" and "Whenever a card is put into your graveyard from anywhere, you may return it to your hand."

Rulings »

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Legal in »  NYR

Gren's Thoughts » At first I was like, wait... is that a Soratami? Then I was like, BY THE GODS IT IS. I came buckets. But anywho, back to the card. First ability lets you shackle a creature for a turn. Not bad. Second lets you draw a card for each tapped creature your OPP has. Blue is pretty notorious for stuff like that, also not bad. The Ult, however, is pretty decent. This planeswalker, in general, needs support from other cards, but I like that this time cause most planeswalkers are powerful by themselves. This one relies on other cards, which is a different, but interesting approach. With the way blue works, it shouldn't be hard to synchronize with Tamiyo.

Art » I had nostalgia flashbacks to Kamigawa.

Notes » Week 1 Spoilers begins for AVR. This set is going to be creamy.

[Dragonheart91]

I love that it's a moonfolk, but the abilities are extremely underwhelming. I feel like she needed a fourth ability, or at least one of her other abilities being better than it is, or to only cost 4 mana instead of 5. I don't don't see her getting played anywhere. Jace 3.0 seems better and he sees marginal play at best.

[Ritokure]

I'm not sure. She seems kinda decent. Her +1 is definitely good. Ajani Vengeant has an inferior but similar effect, and he's multi 4. Its biggest problem is that it's not that hot against Tokens, which are pretty popular nowadays. Her -2... well, even considering that you can target yourself, I still think it's only OK-ish. But since you can swing with your field and draw lots of stuff (even if the counterattack is going to suck), as an utility situational effect when you reeeally need that DoJ, it's not half bad.
But her Ultimate. Oh GOD HER ULTIMATE. It makes Venser's Ulti look like a child's toy. Seriously, all you need to break that Ulti is either a card with low CMC, a counterspell or a card that costs Phyrexian Mana. It basically makes every card in your hand infinite.

I can't blame you though, I was underwhelmed at first, and still kind of am TBH. She costs a bit too much and her effects seems kinda generic Blue stuff, but IMO that's a good thing. Finally a Blue Walker that doesn't cares for Artifacts or milling and that isn't banned. She's good and useful, but not really groundbreaking. For the hype surrounding a Soratami Walker, I agree it's a bit disappointing.


EFF: 7/10
ART: 8/10 (Weird hair, but hey... Soratami!)

[Siyanor]

Or... Rite of Flame and Lightning Bolt.

Or Time Warp.

Or Dark Ritual.

Basically, the issue is actually getting her to 8. JTMS's -12 is worse, because you still don't win that turn if they have a hand. If you -8 Tamiyo it's pretty hard not to win that turn.

Because I can, I'll name more...

Cathodion
Channel the Suns
Manamorphose
Gaea's Touch
Inner Fire

Aaand a lot more.

Edited by Siyanor, 12 April 2012 - 03:11 PM.

[n00bdragon]

Wow, that ultimate is... ultimate. Draw your whole deck with Manamorphose lol