Pointed Discussion

12 hours up on Gatherer and still no comment?

Maybe that's a comment about the card. Sure, can give you a good life boost, which might make it playable in Limited, but generally, this is a rather useless card, methinks...

Not spectacular. But a 3/3 isn't useless, the lifegain keeps you alive, and the 2 green mana in the casting cost boosts any other devotion cards you play.

What about using this in a Maze's End deck?

This archer directly attacks flying creatures, because life gain counteracts evasive damage.

This card is nowhere near as playable as the black and red ones, simply because, from experience, you're looking at about 3-6 life on average. Paying four mana for a 3/3 that gives you five life generally isn't going to win you many games.

This might not kill your opponent nearly as fast as Fanatic of Mogis, but green has access to Garruk, Caller of Beast, who is capable of drawing tons of cards and flooding your board with creatures. This can result in a ridiculously high devotion count.

This archer defys convention by not shooting at things in the air and not shooting at things before they start hitting her...

All thrag, and no tusk. Reminds me a lot of Alive//Well--oh, and also those one 2/4 Elves who get you 7 life if you control two or more guildgates. Nylea's Disciple seems a little less sketchy, though. Although decks that like lifegain tend to like big butts, too, so maybe not. Anyway, none of those cards strike me as wildly powerful. On the other hand, synergy counts for something in this game... Also Purplerooster, your comment was a very clever reading of the flavor of this card. Before I read it, I saw "archer," and thought where's the kill flyers ability? The lifegain makes sense in that context now.

3/3 with some life gain for four, nothing that special for devotion, toughness not even out of Anger of the Gods range. I'm confused. Why did Mihara say this was the best card in his PT sideboard?

i feel that this card was build to be awesome specifically in one kind of deck alone: the kind that's similar to what i'm sporting:

4xPrimalcrux
4xKhalni Hydra
4xDeity of Scars
4xLeatherback Baloth


i know there are a lot of other green cards that have lots of symbols on it, but these 4 are the ones that are currently on MY deck and are pretty much the keys. worry not, i have enough lands and the mana ramp to support these beasts.

that being said, Nylea's Disciple fits snugly right in a couple of sorcery slots. i've had quite a few games where i gained 20+ life from just casting this with the keys ingame already. and it being a creature, adds a blocker too. and 3/3 isnt something to laugh about either.

I am not Mihara, but I believe the reason he was swapping this guy in postboard every matchup was because the lifegain buys mono-green time against other beatdown decks. You don't want to chump block with your dorks and lose devotion, so Disciple gains back ground lost while providing a decent blocker. Great against decks light on removal, but useless against control decks.

Surprisingly useful card... In a green devotion deck if your ever struggling for Mana your defiantly doing it wrong, that being said every time I played this guy he gave me 9 to 12 Life and helped bump up all of my other devotion based actions.

I do feel though that his usefulness is strictly limited and hes borderline useless in non-devotion based decks, although the same can be said about Polukranos. The "XX(Forest)" in Monstrosity was designed to combo into Green Devotion Mana Overflow.