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Alert Heedbonder
Creature — Human Scout
Vigilance
At the beginning of your end step, you gain 1 life for each creature you control with vigilance.
Swebb87 on lathiel, the bounteous dawn and …
1 year ago
I know I can stack trigger at each step, so I can have Alert Heedbonder trigger first but can I then put the counters on creatures using Lathiel's ability or not because for heedbonder's ability to resolved, I will have moved passed the beginning of my end step
Coward_Token on Secret Lair: Street Fighter
2 years ago
Gidgetimer: While it sure is functionally different, are there a lot of cases where it matters, especially power-wise? The templating is way more elegant (and more consistent with how this kind of wording is typically templated) , it working with "vigilance matters" cards like Alert Heedbonder & Solid Footing feels more like a feature than a bug, and with the reach criteria in mind, there's not a lot of cards that care about the untap/vigilance distinction (Wake Thrasher, I guess??).
Kazierts on
Bant Stoic Control [Budget/Casual]
3 years ago
There's a reason why there aren't more creatures with vigilance besides the angel, it's because there's no need for them. I'll use the creatures you suggested as an example. Let's say I play either Alert Heedbonder or Tajuru Pathwarden. What do any of the these do to help develop my strategy? Nothing, especially the Heedbonder. The Pathwarden at the very least is big, but that's about it. Nether of them help to keep my opponent's creatures tapped. Taranika, Akroan Veteran I actually stopped to think about a little bit. However, it basically works the same way as the others. Sure she can untap my creatures and maybe grow some of them a little bit, which is important to know as a lot of the creatures wouldn't receive that big of a buff, but there's someone else that can also "untap" while also being an Engine. Soulherder. It doesn't technically untap but effectively is the same thing. To wrap up this point about vigilance, the only creatures that would benefit from having it would be the Bounding Krasis and Icefall Regent. Another thing to mention is Evolutionary Leap, which can turn useless tapped creatures into something more useful.
Icy Manipulator is an interesting one, but is kinda mana intensive due to the mana cost. Thankfully, I found other cards with similar effects, like Pacification Array. While I think the deck has sufficient tapping effects, this is something that caught my attention enough to make me want to playtest it.
Thanks for the opinion and suggestions!
ClockworkSwordfish on
Bant Stoic Control [Budget/Casual]
3 years ago
Since you're completely built around Stoic Angel, I'm surprised you aren't running more creatures with Vigilance! After all, her drawback applies to you too, meaning you can swing with a vigilant army turn after turn and save your one untap for a mana dork or whatever. There are plenty of solid budget options, including Alert Heedbonder, Tajuru Pathwarden and Taranika, Akroan Veteran. Of course, you can also just staple Vigilance onto your whole crew with something like Brave the Sands or the humble Serra's Blessing!
The other thing to consider is having a repeatable, reliable tapping effect. Bounding Krasis and Icefall Regent can tap a creature... once. But maybe something nastier shows up later - then you'd be better served by something like Icy Manipulator. Having more cards that can tap a creature on demand than just the mana-intensive Verity Circle is likely to keep your opponent down once the Angel is in play.