Card of the Day - Monday, April 14, 2008
Serrated ArrowsHomelands uncommon. At the first Pro Tour in New York, the format was "Standard, New York Style," which meant that each deck had to include at least five cards from every legal set in the Standard format of the time. This included the most recent set, Homelands, which was short on powerful cards—leading many deck designers to include this creature-weakening artifact.
HairlessThoctar
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(4 votes)
Probably the only card from Homelands that was at the time good, and still is good.
majinara
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(6 votes)
@ HairlessThoctar: actually there are quite some playables hin homelands. Sure it's power level is low, but cards like merchant scroll or memory lapse are fine, and half a dozen others can find a home in many casual decks.
themicronaut
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(8 votes)
Such a balanced card. 5 stars for being a decent Homelands card.
Bandswithother
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This is pretty nasty with proliferate. It recharges while your opponents bleed out.
scumbling1
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
It wasn't very good at the time, and still remains weak. As was already explained by the Card of the Day post, decks had to use five Homelands cards at the time; it was choice was between the lesser of ~100 evils. Mono-black Necro decks usually used it to deal with Order of the White Shield as a formality. I don't know if they even would have bothered if 'New York Standard' rules didn't apply.
tavaritz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
That's untrue. This was used in many tourney decks as creature removal during the period that Homelands was in Standard.
Shadoflaam
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Best card in Homelands. That's like being the smartest guy in a mental asylum. Or the least-creepy old man near the ice cream truck. Or the coolest guy that plays Magic.
Radagast
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
An effective answer to the "pump knights" of its time, and interesting even by today's standards.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Thanks to the reprint as a Timeshifted Time Spiral card, it's even Modern legal to use this and proliferate together...
I will also point out that it can even be used to get one of your Undying creatures back which has already died once and now has a +1/+1 counter on it.
DarthParallax
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Merchant Scroll is still Restricted Hairless Thoctar.
But, yeah Baron Sengir, Autumn Willow, and Ishan's Shade didn't age too well. Sad.
TheWrathofShane
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card got stronger with proliferate.
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I used to be an adventurer like you... then I took an arrowhead counter to the knee.
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@shadoflaam
Those are awesome analogies, lol.
the card it self is alright, If it were standard legal im sure it would still see minor play. 3.5/5 Stars
Salient
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I love this card, but I have to say, tavaritz is drawing wrong conclusions from true information. This was widely and universally derided by tournament players at the time.
Why?
Tournament rules at the time required you to use at least one card from the most current set. And there was a time, for a while, when Homelands was the latest set.
A few people were able to fit Memory Lapse into their deck. Because Serrated Arrows can be shoehorned into any deck and has at least some useful purpose, literally everyone else ran Serrated Arrows. And, everyone hoped they wouldn't see it in their opening 7, or the 7 after that.
Since it was the card everyone played, it was kind of a lightning rod for complaints about Homelands. Nobody in a tournament played this because they wanted to...
Comments (15)
Serrated ArrowsHomelands uncommon. At the first Pro Tour in New York, the format was "Standard, New York Style," which meant that each deck had to include at least five cards from every legal set in the Standard format of the time. This included the most recent set, Homelands, which was short on powerful cards—leading many deck designers to include this creature-weakening artifact.
That's like being the smartest guy in a mental asylum.
Or the least-creepy old man near the ice cream truck.
Or the coolest guy that plays Magic.
I will also point out that it can even be used to get one of your Undying creatures back which has already died once and now has a +1/+1 counter on it.
But, yeah Baron Sengir, Autumn Willow, and Ishan's Shade didn't age too well. Sad.
Those are awesome analogies, lol.
the card it self is alright, If it were standard legal im sure it would still see minor play.
3.5/5 Stars
Why?
Tournament rules at the time required you to use at least one card from the most current set. And there was a time, for a while, when Homelands was the latest set.
A few people were able to fit Memory Lapse into their deck. Because Serrated Arrows can be shoehorned into any deck and has at least some useful purpose, literally everyone else ran Serrated Arrows. And, everyone hoped they wouldn't see it in their opening 7, or the 7 after that.
Since it was the card everyone played, it was kind of a lightning rod for complaints about Homelands. Nobody in a tournament played this because they wanted to...
...except me. What can I say? I like arrows.