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Flag CommanderGreven • February 2, 2013 8:14 AM PST

Todays other GTC card to rate is...

Beckon Apparition

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5.0: First pick no matter what. I will always play this card.
4.5: Splashable and first pick worthy.
4.0: First pick pack 1.
3.5: Early pick though not always a first pick.
3.0: Solid early/mid pick.
2.5: Solid pick in color.
2.0: Should generally make the deck if in this color.
1.5: Decent filler.
1.0: 23rd card if you have to.
0.5: This card will sometimes be sideboarded in.
0.0: I will never put this card into my deck (main deck or after sideboarding).

This card looks good. However it's not. You need a dead dude which should be doable but not early enough and late game it won't really matter generally.

1

Discuss!

Flag orin02 • February 2, 2013 8:45 AM PST

You can remove an opponent's dead guy too. And the 1/1 has flying so that's better. I would say 1.5 Sideboard card against a deck that likes to pull the same creatures out of graveyards.

Flag silentbobus • February 2, 2013 9:13 AM PST

1 for this as well, I wouldn't really want this outside of sideboard material, but I could see it making the maindeck if I was short on playables.

Flag I-rock • February 2, 2013 9:17 AM PST

Eh, in Orzhov it gives you flying chump blocker in the mid-game that is easy to extort to high-heaven.

In anything else... eh. Gives you a cheap Cipher target in Dimir, and nothing useful in Boros.

It's about a 1 for me. It's not particularly bad in Orzhov, where cheap removal often means having cards in the GY early enough for it to matter, and the cheap cost helps with extort. A little worse in Dimir, but not completely useless. Still, I'd rather have most any other in-color 1-drop over this.

Flag Lobster667 • February 2, 2013 11:06 AM PST

1 sure.

Flag Kazepenku • February 2, 2013 12:35 PM PST

this is a "I need some cheap spells to extort off of" card

1.0~1.5

Flag Iamwinterborn • February 2, 2013 4:25 PM PST

Feb 2, 2013 -- 8:14AM, CommanderGreven wrote:
T You need a dead dude which should be doable but not early enough and late game it won't really matter generally.

Small correction: It doesn't have to be a creature card to be exiled. It can be any card, including a land you milled or a spell you played.

But yeah, 1.0.

Really not ever looking to play this except out of the sideboard, but even then I have a hard time figuring out when I would be desperate enough to side it in.

Flag GeekyDad • February 2, 2013 4:30 PM PST

I'd rather have a one drop with extort, honestly. It'd be one of the last picks in a pack for me.

It might be sideboard-able in standard constructed against graveyard recursion, but Cremate

would be preferable.

Flag Urzasapprentice • February 2, 2013 6:47 PM PST

1.5

Actually I wouldn't be upset to have one of these in my Orzhov deck.

Flag Tevish_Szat • February 2, 2013 7:20 PM PST

Remember, this is an instant, and requires only any one card in any player's graveyard: it's not going to be a 1/1 flyer on turn 1, but at the same time it's not entirely unlikely to be usable by turn 2-3 thanks to early removal like Mugging

.

It's not great (it will be a good bit better in DGM when it's in the same format as Scavange to hate on), but it's not utterly uinusable. 1.0 by Greven's Metrics, 1.5 by UA