Pointed Discussion

Yet another must-have foil!

Gorgeous card. It looks like it costs just one mana too many, however. It'll do wonders in limited.

Compare to War Priest of Thune... yeah.

Nor fair to compare it to War Priest of Thune as it's a different rarity. A better comparison would be to Cloudchaser Eagle, Aven Cloudchaser (and possibly even Cloudchaser Kestrel even though it breaks the mana similarities) and you get the idea: white is better at destroying enchantments!

This would be unplayable at 3 mana. Oddly enough, however, due to the unique Limited format of Theros I could see this being fairly highly draftable though.

Contrary to the Cloudchasers, though, destroying an Aura is optional with this gal, so you don't have to destroy one if you're the only one with any on the battlefield and you just need another body to put between you and your opponent.

Almost always a 2/1 for 4. Even with 3 in my sealed deck, in the 18 games I played I never landed her ability once.

I think I'll call this one SImon.

I'd say it is fair to compare to War Priest of Thune. Two mana more, one toughness less, targets are more restricted. That's not the kind of difference I would expect to see between common and uncommon. Maybe common and mythic rare, and even then that's pushing it.

I hate it when they waste great art on bad cards.

While I'm hearing lots of love for this card in draft, no one mentions Priest of Iroas.

When you need a chump blocker, it's a 1/1 for . When you need to destroy an Enchantment (not just an Aura), it's . If you play the creature first and then wait, the destruction happens at instant speed. It's more colourful, but what it really does is create a threat.

Your opponents will be less likely to play big enchantments unless they're willing to reciprocate. That means that you could save yourself a few turns before they play those.

I honestly hate this card because it's still a "kill spell", but it's so inefficient that I'd rather just draft a creature like Pheres-Band Tromper and let them deal with me rather than the other way around.

For everyone comparing this to War Priest of Thune, do you even play limited? How rare/what CMC would you expect to have a creature at that can kill a vast majority of the set? If this guy said "ETB: Kill 1/2 the cards in the block", what do you think his rarity would be? What would you want to pay? Do you think a 2CMC bear that had such power could be at common or even uncommon? Would you even play anything BUT that bear?

I'm not saying I like this dude. Like others said it is only aruas, not enchantments, so it MAY not hit. BUT, if it were like War Preist, costed only 2 mana, and killed ANY enchantment, then it would be WAY overpowered for limited. Its like if a 2 drop shatter-bear was a common in Mirrodin blocks... wouldn't happen. It would break the format, and limited wouldn't be fun.

So yeah, for constructed, if you have access to obv run the priest. But not every card is designed with constructed in mind. There are many formats in which one can play MTG, and not all of them have access to the entire library. Please keep this in mind when making such narrowminded general statements.