Funnily enough, I think it's the worst of the battlemages. It's abilities are kinda redundant, especially compared to the likes of Jund Battlemage and Grixis Battlemage.
MtgTGG
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
The worst battlemage.
RaikouRider
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Pretty solid limited and casual card, but I'd rather play Rhox Charger if I needed evasion and exalted ever becomes a viable constructed deck.
Iiory
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
i must say that this is a good card.....have you ever comes to you that bant decks have a keyword called EXALTED....so you attack only with one creature and many times it is stron :) so TRAMPLE is the second key word in bant ok it makes sence
Donovan_Fabian
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Jund battlemage I think is one of the better ones with its token creation ability, but this one is easily second, use the target creature gains flying with branching bolt to blast multiple creatures at once, and give your bruisers trample. If nothing else it's still a 2/2 for 3 which isn't horrible either, at least gives you something to block with.
Alqatrkapa
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This is one of the best battlemages out there. In bant, with all that exalted, for just one mana that 10/10 that would be chump-blocked becomes trample. Helps so much. Flying doesn't hurt either.
Guntz1092
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
wow, this is a pretty good battlemage; giving ur exalted creature the ability to bypass pesky 1/1 blockers or all blockers for that matter is pretty cool
Nagoragama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Very impressive art. Not a bad card either. Provides whatever kind of evasion you need.
Why_not
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
if you give it the umbral mantle from shadowmoor and give the creature flying and trample then it makes your creature much better getting past most of there creatures then trampling the ones with flying
Axelle
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
It subtly makes the point that, before the Conflux, Bant did not know of red mana.
Shoe2
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I am not a big fan of 3+ color decks unless they are 5 colors. My main issue with this battle mage is: when is trample better than flying?
adrian.malacoda
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Trample is better than flying if you are facing flying/reach creatures. In this situation giving your guy flying won't really help, because he can be chump blocked regardless. Trample is harder to chump block because the only way to fend off a trample attack is to have a stronger guy. Giving your dude flying also makes him vulnerable to removal that specifically targets flying creatures, whereas as far as I am aware of there is nothing that specifically targets trample creatures.
On the other hand, if you are facing flying dudes then you can have this guy give your blockers flying, I think.
DoragonShinzui
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The perfect complement to Exalted. The one thing that kills Exalted is chump, and this has two ways of solving that problem.
shotoku64
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'd personally rather take a 1/1 with shroud, increase its abilties to {1G} and {1U} and make it not have to tap. Altogether a good alara draft card, but just a little too weak for any constructed deck
I use this to grouphug :p either I raise my regenerating blockers up to the sky to block their sigarda's or prrosh EDH commanders or I give them trample if they attack my opponent (i can't to sigarda but you get the idea).
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On the other hand, if you are facing flying dudes then you can have this guy give your blockers flying, I think.