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Jan 14, 2013 -- 4:38PM, bay_falconer wrote:

Jan 13, 2013 -- 9:04PM, DarkAvatar1018 wrote:

What, no lands too?

I wonder how much play this will see. It's interesting.

Yeah, they've been making lands have "unofficial hexproof" these days it seems. Compare Craterize to Stone Rain or Despoil or whatever else.

I like how my "not only creatures can have extort" hypothesis has been proved.

Apparently lands cost the extra 2 .  And oddly, with the common tap lands and shocks, the ETB tapped on lands probably wouldn't have killed standard, but whatevs.

@ bay - yeah, more like hexproof and pro mass removal.  I've been hoping for a Wildfire reprint someday...doubt it will ever happen.  Unfortunate.

I really like this card.  Probably one of my favorite in the set.  Wished Gideon Jura was in standard....

Jan 14, 2013 -- 10:00PM, Weisse wrote:

This will definitely be played... just not sure whether it will be played more in Boros aggro or control. It's a very solid little 2drop.

It can be played in both. This is very much a card that helps aggro more than control because they will actually have creatures able to attack to abuse the fact that the opponent's creatures are coming into play tapped. However, the tempo loss is something to note, and there are other things aggro may want to be playing t2.

Jan 16, 2013 -- 5:17PM, MrIndigo wrote:

Why, when Kismet only saw play as a combo piece with Stasis and specifically because it hit lands, do people think this card will be playable? It's an extraordinarily niche answer to Falkenrath Aristocrat, for which many other defences abound.

It does help with tempo:

Your opponent's can't flash block, it does an okay job of fighting Thragtusk reactivism, haste on their end works negatively (i.e., this equalizes their haste advantage). Sure, it doesn't slow their lands down and that does make it worse, but it's half the cost and it helps you eat at their lifetotal. This one fits in as one of many "rock and a hard place" cards, because what it does is force the opponent to spend resources dealing with IT before they can start dealing with other things. Unlike Kismet , multiples are useful.