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I can't believe people haven't commented on this card, I see it as one of the biggest shenanigan card WoTC ever made as an uncommon. Seriously there is so many green decks just said "thank you so much!" to this. I'm somewhat disgusted and at the same time happy to see something that can ruin someone's day all at once, it has the ability to make a quick blocker while at the same time in an elf deck just becomes rather bonkers. i guess the only thing you could do is Whipfire and call it a day with red decks, white controls can run Norn's annex to prevent major attacks, and for blacks, they got Black Sun's Zenith. all of them has the ability to control your hoard, but over all late game bomber totally

Mr. Lordtaco

What's Jade Mage got to do with elves?

Why not, you know, run more elves instead?

Yeah, you'd get more use out of, say, an Elvish Promenade or Lys Alana Huntmaster in an elf deck. This is a good card for green, yes, but not a boon to elf token decks.

@LordTaco Most of the comments are hidden because it was just reprinted.

I currently play this card in a cheap white/green agro deck and like it just because it's a good way to use your excess mana and because if you combine it with Mentor Of The Meek it becomes strictly better then Azure Mage.

Same combo as with Nemata, Grove Guardian:
Jade Mage
Overgrowth
Earthcraft

Drop the Overgrowth on a Forest, infinite Saproling tokens :-) This is now one of the win conditions in my Ghave EDH deck; infinite tokens + Altar of Dementia. Who'd ever see that coming? Mill in a Sap deck!

does any one know what the other mage cards are iv only run into two

Would 1+{G} for hexproof be OP, considering it would be amazingly affective against Gideon's Lawkeeper to say the least?

@dman2stow for your reference:
Alabaster Mage
Azure Mage
Onyx Mage
Crimson Mage
and of course Jade Mage

Lame card... pretty smoking with training grounds, hivestone, and muscle slivers though :D
3/5

@Drewsel: I think the point is more that elves are usually very good with supplying mana, making it possible to use the saproling ability several times a turn. Although, I'm not sure if there might be actual elves that can summon saprolings themselves. All I can think of at the moment is Elvish Farmer.

You don't understand. This is the closest they're going to get to reprinting Sliver Queen! 4/5

Why not a little...
*Puts on shades*
Training Grounds?

Jade Mage, Terra Eternal, Life and Limb. Looks like W/G's got some combo decks in it after all.

Optional additions: Intangible Virtue, Quest for Renewal, Mycoloth, and, if you can swing three-color, Training Grounds

@endersblade
I'd just run blasting station instead. It costs 1 more mana to play, but then it can still infinite kill, and it has more utility if you don't go infinite. Increasing devotion can turn into an emergency lava axe, but it's divided as you choose, and can hit creatures.

@talcumpowder0046
Quote: "Lame card... pretty smoking with training grounds, hivestone, and muscle slivers though :D
3/5"

Let me fix that for you:
"pretty smoking"

This + Training Grounds + Doubling Season/Parallel Lives = SAPROLINGS EVERYWHEREEEEEE

B(o)(o)BS.


That is all.