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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 8:57AM
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Todays GTC card to rate is... Ivy Lane Denizen  Spoiler:
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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 is in my opinion hands down the best denizen in the set. Giving +1/+1 counters can be huge and this little guy does it well as long as you have a decent number of green creatures. Should be a fairly high pick. 2.5-3 Discuss!
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 10:03AM
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Date Joined:
Jun 15, 2009
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I think this guy is fairly powerful, at least a 3.0. My last opponent used him to give counters to his evasive creatures.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 10:18AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 10, 2012
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Definitely a 3.0 Sorta like the druid's familiar  of the set, and that 3 toughness really helps its sticking power. In multiples this guy is crazy town.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 11:22AM
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Definitely a 3.0 Sorta like the druid's familiar of the set, and that 3 toughness really helps its sticking power. In multiples this guy is crazy town.
How is this at all like druid's familiar?
DF was a 4/4 when it came down, that, when it came down, gave something a giant strength  . This durdles around and, if you didn't topdeck it, and have other creatures in hand, can make something bigger later.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 11:47AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 10, 2012
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Definitely a 3.0 Sorta like the druid's familiar of the set, and that 3 toughness really helps its sticking power. In multiples this guy is crazy town.
How is this at all like druid's familiar?
DF was a 4/4 when it came down, that, when it came down, gave something a giant strength . This durdles around and, if you didn't topdeck it, and have other creatures in hand, can make something bigger later.
I should've qualified that: I've played this in Simic casual sealed/draft decks and had this trigger evolve, then add extra counter when later evolve-triggering creatures came down, or even when I topdeck a Spire Tracer. Though this doesn't add 6 p/t to the board for 4, even without evolve this will probably add 4p/5t to the board if it sticks. Close enough to "sorta like [x]" for my tastes. If this was exactly like DF I'd rank it a 3.5.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 12:12PM
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Very solid card in any green deck. I'd go 3.0 as well.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 2:35PM
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Date Joined:
Sep 30, 2010
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2.5 is probably closer to where I'm at. It's really solid but not exceptional.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 7:11PM
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2.5 - certainly one of the better ones, but also the slowest one.
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3 months ago ::
Feb 26, 2013 - 8:17PM
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Date Joined:
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I like most of the Denizins (Sage's Row is kind of bad and Foundry Street is more marginal), but this may be my favorite. It doesn't give you the quick yet lategame relevant boost of Shadow Alley, and perhaps lacks the broad utility of Court Street, but it makes up for that in, frankly, raw power. Out of all the Denizins, this is the only one that permanently improves your position when it triggers. If I'm Simic, I want to have one or two, because having it on the field means that topdecking Experiment One  rather than Adaptive Snapjaw  in the late game isn't a total whiff -- it still pumps at least one creature. 2/3 is also a sweet spot for Evolve, as it evolves EVERY evolve creature for their first hit, and essentially half (6/11) for their second. Gruul likes it slightly less, because Gruul's higher slots are marginally more jammed, and gruul is rewarded for not casting all its green creatures: as such, they get less use out of the denizin, whish is not to say they get none. a respectable 2.5
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3 months ago ::
Feb 27, 2013 - 4:40AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 13, 2008
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This guy is good, I think Sage Row is the best though.
3 mana 3 toughness and the milling is often non-trivial.
I don't like this in Gruul and think it's only ok in Simic.
2.5 as the counters can be timely.
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