Wow, indestructible, provides certain lifegain, and gives you slight card advantage. Its also one of the coolest color combinations in magic. Whats not good about this card?
Donovan_Fabian
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Sapling of colfenor + gift of the deity, game long removal as long as she isn't exiled.
Diachronos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Only downside I can see is losing life from a creature's Power. Good way to counter that is to run a lot of creatures with high Toughness and low Power (Walls, creatures like Silklash Spider, etc.).
f3lixx
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This is a treefolk shaman for a reason. They are low power high toughness creatures. I imagine mainly for flavor are they having you lose life because this card was meant to be played with other treefolk which undoubtedly give you plenty of life.
MadTheorist
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
Use with doran. Both make use of defensive creature stats.
Nice card, works nicely with cradle of vitality, if you can get the white mana. What's weird, though, is that this card doesn't show up on a search for cards that are both green and black, but no other colors.
Would make for an interesting EDH general actually. Problem is, you already want Doran in that deck anyway, and at that point it's hard not to just make Doran your general.
She is a really cool general for EDH. I especially like that I don't feel bad including auras for her, since she doesn't get taken out very easily. Staying power, relatively low cmc, and card advantage ability rank her pretty high on my list.
And since I haven't seen it in any of the Sapling decklists I've looked through, Well of Lost Dreams. Not scary enough to warrant immediate removal, but plenty of card advantage to gain from it.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I agree with ProbablyThatGuy, she'd probably make a good EDH general on her own. Maybe I only agree with him because I don't own a Doran, but I agree with him nonetheless. She's hard to remove, gives you some card advantage and G/B is usually a pretty good color combination. My second EDH shall include her. Or maybe I'll use her as my third-in-command with The Mimeoplasm as my general. Either way, we'll see.
Anzu-chan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Looks like Dark Confidant, but he's more costy, you might gains life and he resists to some removals.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The most interesting aspect from a combo perspective is that if you flip an 8/8 you gain 8 life and then lose 8 life, triggering a bunch of "Whenever you gain life" and "Whenever you lose life" effects.
The people who finalize the wording are very considerate with this card. If it had read, "You lose life, then gain life" it would have had the same effect, but some players would think revealing a 5/5 at five life would result in death. (It wouldn't- state-based effects like losing from zero or less life are checked only after the ability resolution is complete.)
Magic: the Gathering is extremely complex, but it's designed so that you can usually play it well enough without knowing all the rules.
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Very cool card, I like the thematic feel of this one a lot.
4/5
And since I haven't seen it in any of the Sapling decklists I've looked through, Well of Lost Dreams. Not scary enough to warrant immediate removal, but plenty of card advantage to gain from it.
Magic: the Gathering is extremely complex, but it's designed so that you can usually play it well enough without knowing all the rules.