Timely Reinforcements was basically better but it always felt like a badly designed card to me. You're 1 creature down from them but you're running G stompy with some W support... and you are at 5 to their 7 or so? Timely Reinforcements just breaks the whole match right there. This is more balanced but, in Standard, it's still bad due to Lingering Souls... so I'm not sure what to think here.
Eternal_Blue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Granted, it's not the best card out there. And perhaps it would have been fine costing one mana less. I don't know. However, I do look forward to failing miserably at making some sort of Pauper token deck using this card with Gather the Townsfolk, and Raise the Alarm.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Has none of the flexibility of Raise the Alarm. And no, I don't really think the extra dude is worth and a speed downgrade.
ZEvilMustache
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why does white have to pay so much to get the magic number "3?"
Diachronos
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Every other spell that gives you 1/1s has either been a 2cmc sorcery or a 3cmc instant (except Lingering Souls, which is a sorcery), and both Lingering Souls and Midnight Haunting give you FLYING 1/1s.
Why does adding a single 1/1 dude to a sorcery merit doubling its cost? Is it because Captain of the Watch got reprinted and they're afraid of your Soldier tokens getting... a Soldier-only Intangible Virtue?
TheWrathofShane
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Yes there are better cards! But one honor of the pure makes this thing a serious threat! Stop being spoiled and have fun again!
A3Kitsune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Diachronos: Yes. That is exactly why.
Hercynian
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I fail to see how this is not good. It's three creatures for one card with a very relevant and exploitable type. Rarely do I ever find myself in a situation where I would rather have one big creature than the equivalent amount of tokens. That's why, whenever I play mono-green, howl of the night pack is the finisher I play most of the time. I'd take it over primeval titan even (almost).
This has interaction with cards like soul warden, glorious anthem, odric master tactitian, the titular captain of the guard, and a host of other cards. It can even be replicated because it's not a creature (stretching it I know). This card is severely underrated.
In order to understand cards like this one, I have a question. Since Captain's Call is a Sorcery do the tokens come off the Battlefield at the end of the turn or do they become a permanent?
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Why does adding a single 1/1 dude to a sorcery merit doubling its cost? Is it because Captain of the Watch got reprinted and they're afraid of your Soldier tokens getting... a Soldier-only Intangible Virtue?
This has interaction with cards like soul warden, glorious anthem, odric master tactitian, the titular captain of the guard, and a host of other cards. It can even be replicated because it's not a creature (stretching it I know). This card is severely underrated.