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Temple Acolyte

Multiverse ID: 6495

Temple Acolyte

Comments (10)

Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
surprisingly nice portal-only card.
of course it's not game-breaking, but Venerable Monk may still learn a lot from this guy.
i also like how they removed the restrictions for the cip/etb effect in the oracle :D

by the way, that fellow looks like a girl. i didn't know temple acolytes were allowed to be female back then O.o
garbagegatherer
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Back then? The people and goblins and night stalkers in Portal2 have freaking GUNS! Freaky guns, but guns nonetheless... Yech!
ScissorsLizard
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (2 votes)
This poor guy's about to be outclassed in Worldwake.
achilleselbow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
@Mode: You mean back when goblins and elves and planeswalkers existed? :-p
ZursApprentice
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Good common. Lone Missionary is indeed better but this is arguably better than Aven Rif***cher: 1 mana less, gains 3 life immediately, doesn't vanish.
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (2 votes)
She's more defensive then Lone Missionary, with 3 toughness and 1 power compared with the Missionary's 1 toughness and 2 power. The Missionary is better in more aggressive decks, but she's better in defensive decks.
GoblinNaysayer93
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
The Oracle text makes this card better. The text on Portal cards always seems strange even when compared to other old sets.
blink182zombies
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is just a 1/3 without the oracle text in most cases. Cards don't enter from your hand (in most cases), they enter from the stack.
Equinox523
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
An interesting take on Venerable Monk - a better blocker with more toughness, one extra point of life, but is worse on the attack. Not a bad common, all in all.
CFLuke
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think it's funny how everyone is saying that Lone Missionary is clearly better when she actually beats Lone Missionary and lives to tell the tale...power isn't always better than toughness.