Honestly not a bad card in a sacrifice deck. Usually a creature in the graveyard you can remove to it, or, barring that (or if you want to save that creature), you can sacrifice it to a Fallen Angel or Nantuko Husk.
A3Kitsune
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
I like how the rulings refers to the 'players can't reorder their graveyards' rule. "This is a little-known rule because cards that care about the order of cards in your graveyard havn't been printed in years."
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Definitely not a bad card, and the ability to discard it can help you both to keep a recently played bird alive, or to help you get threshold.
storm_crow4presidnt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Good 1 drop with not a devestating drawback
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Synergizes with itself :D
(Well that was probably the main reason to have the discard ability, which can easily find other uses.)
And it's a bird...yeah, you'll normally run a UW deck for that tribal, but a flying 3/2 one-drop just seems to tempting not to try out.
But for its "discard anytime" ability to find a good combo is pretty hard: Library of Leng prevents you from losing by drawing a card from empty library. Mostly you would need it to fulfill conditions like Hellbent and Threshold abilities. Additionally I want to name some card that don't have these keywords but have card-number conditions: Brink of Madness, Dark Suspicions, Dread Slag, Ensnaring Bridge, Scalding Tongs. Or make some effects last longer: Decaying Soil or Forbidden Crypt(remember to send it to the graveyard before playing that)
That discard ability should be rewritten as follows.
Discard this card:.
Sharu
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How... odd.
I mean, for starters, 3/2 flying one drop, sweet. Graveyard removal cost in black, oh no. So far, nice and solid.
And then, the strange discard ability. I know it's so multiples in an opening hand aren't redundant, but it is very strangely worded. A state-based self discard effect is truly unique, and very interesting.
I approve this card, and hope to one day own a playset.
4/5.
thought_jar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Player 1: I'll tap lots of forests and cast something big and expensive Player 2: In response I'll.. Player 1: Sigh, I knew it Player 2: Discard Circling Vultures, didn't see that one coming yes?
ajames
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The reason this card doesn't say Discard this card: is for two reasons. It looks even more ridiculous than it does now, and making it an activated ability changes the card.
Fanaticmogg
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Street Wraith makes good fuel for this. Architects of Will and Monstrous Carabid can be cycled while the triggered ability is on the stack, thus allowing you to drop the Vultures on turn 1 without worrying about it dying the next turn.
JimmyNoobPlayer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is an interesting example of a card that needs "lenticular design", one of Mark Rosewater's favorite buzzwords. That means a card that has different values when viewed from different angles; a card with strategic complexity for experts that looks simple for new players.
If this card were made today, the discard ability would have a tiny weak result like mill a player for one, or something inconsequential. A very new player would play with the ability and quickly realize it was weak and mostly useless compared to a 3/2 flier, but then find the value in Threshhold and Madness and multiple copies later.
As the card is now, a new player will say, "WHAAA... this is weird, there's something here I don't understand. Is someone making fun of me? Are you trying to trick me? I don't like this game."
(There are some players who would take a weird card as a challenge and enjoy learning how to use it, but only if they have already decided they like the game. New players trying it out will always be a little turned off by seemingly hurtful or useless abilities.)
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(Well that was probably the main reason to have the discard ability, which can easily find other uses.)
And it's a bird...yeah, you'll normally run a UW deck for that tribal,
but a flying 3/2 one-drop just seems to tempting not to try out.
But for its "discard anytime" ability to find a good combo is pretty hard:
Library of Leng prevents you from losing by drawing a card from empty library.
Mostly you would need it to fulfill conditions like Hellbent and Threshold abilities.
Additionally I want to name some card that don't have these keywords but have card-number conditions:
Brink of Madness, Dark Suspicions, Dread Slag, Ensnaring Bridge, Scalding Tongs.
Or make some effects last longer: Decaying Soil or Forbidden Crypt(remember to send it to the graveyard before playing that)
sadly you can't use its ability when using Liar's Pendulum.
You're welcome for the bizarrely obvious statement.
Discard this card:.
I mean, for starters, 3/2 flying one drop, sweet.
Graveyard removal cost in black, oh no.
So far, nice and solid.
And then, the strange discard ability.
I know it's so multiples in an opening hand aren't redundant, but it is very strangely worded. A state-based self discard effect is truly unique, and very interesting.
I approve this card, and hope to one day own a playset.
4/5.
Player 2: In response I'll..
Player 1: Sigh, I knew it
Player 2: Discard Circling Vultures, didn't see that one coming yes?
Architects of Will and Monstrous Carabid can be cycled while the triggered ability is on the stack, thus allowing you to drop the Vultures on turn 1 without worrying about it dying the next turn.
If this card were made today, the discard ability would have a tiny weak result like mill a player for one, or something inconsequential. A very new player would play with the ability and quickly realize it was weak and mostly useless compared to a 3/2 flier, but then find the value in Threshhold and Madness and multiple copies later.
As the card is now, a new player will say, "WHAAA... this is weird, there's something here I don't understand. Is someone making fun of me? Are you trying to trick me? I don't like this game."
(There are some players who would take a weird card as a challenge and enjoy learning how to use it, but only if they have already decided they like the game. New players trying it out will always be a little turned off by seemingly hurtful or useless abilities.)