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[Gren]

Card of the Day for Tuesday, April 17th 2012

Card Name »  Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Mana Cost » 3WWU

Expansion » Avacyn Reborn

Type » Legendary Creature - Angel

Card Text » Flying, vigilance

Whenever Bruna, Light of Alabaster attacks or blocks, you may attach to it any number of Auras on the battlefield and you may put onto the battlefield attacked to it any number of Aura cards that could enchant it from your graveyard and/or hand.

Rulings »

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Legal in »  NYR

Gren's Thoughts » Look, it's a Johnny Combo kind of card. To be honest, it doesn't really take that much prep time to buff the shit out of Bruna, especially since you don't have to pay a single ounce of mana for all the Auras. Like the Daily MTG article pointed out, there is really a lot of decent auras that can make here into a huge powerhouse. For making fun with combos, I'm going to love her, and she seems more casual than the others, although she'd make a sweet EDH general.

Art » She's pretty dark skinned for an angel.

Notes » Week 2 spoilers for AVR! Angel week, first three days being the multicolored angels.

[Dragonheart91]

She basically wins if she swings, but she takes quite a bit to set-up and I imagine she usually just dies before attacking.

[Arcangel Miguel]

Just get Eldrazi Conscription and hit for one million trampling damage. White has enough aura tutoring for her to work just fine, just not in standard where only Angelic Destiny is worthy of deck space.

I do like how its attack and block triggers.

[Ritokure]

So, uh, Bubbles is a very nice card indeed. Slow, needs a proper deck to use her on and a bit of set-up, but hits like a truck and will win games if it taps. Sadly, this made me notice that I really can't remember what was the last Aura released that gave a creature protection. A quick search aaand... wow, Totem Armors are pretty much the only playable means to protect her. Well, maybe Clout of Dominus could work as well, but good luck trying to make that work...
To make things worse, neither Blue nor White are very well known for their Haste shenanigans, so I really can't see many ways to be 100% sure that this card will hit. Well, at least with those colors it's not that hard to make her Unblockable... or, as Miguel mentioned, you could just pick Eldrazi Conscription and Annihilate stuff while Trampling. Hell yeah.

So! As much as you try, Bubbles is a hilarious Timmy/Johnny card that's just fairly slow. Still playable if you ask me.



EFF: 8/10
ART: 8/10 (Not a huge fan of Angel artworks, but at least this one is a bit more unique)

[Siyanor]

Eldrazi Conscription doesn't work quite as well as one would think, since both her effect and Annihilate trigger on attack. She doesn't have Annihilate yet when it would trigger, unless you put it on her before she attacked. Of course, she'll still get the +10/+10 and trample. Her value over Zur is 1. she can take 4+ CMC and 2. you can put multiple on her at once. So stick on Conscription and Battle Mastery and you have it.

Edited by Siyanor, 17 April 2012 - 03:19 PM.

[n00bdragon]

Hmm, I wonder if she might make a decent replacement for sutured ghoul in legacy/vintage? The only problem is getting an enchantment to give her haste. She's only got 5 power so the dragon haste enchantment can't automatically pop out and by the time she can attack haste is pointless.

[Siyanor]

Dragon's Breath checks for 6 CMC, not 6 power, so she will trigger it.