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Guardian of New Benalia
Creature — Human Soldier
Enlist (As this creature attacks, you may tap a nonattacking creature you control without summoning sickness. When you do, add its power to this creature's until end of turn.)
Whenever Guardian of New Benalia enlists a creature, scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library. You may put any number of them on the top or bottom of your library in any order.)
Discard a card: Guardian of New Benalia gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.
Caerwyn on Why Does Enlist Have that …
9 hours ago
It would make Enlist too powerful on the curve. Imagine playing a Guardian of New Benalia, a 2/2 for 2. Without Enlist, on turn 3, a 2/2 would be swinging for 2 damage.
Now, let us imagine you drop a 3/3 for 3 on your next turn. Suddenly, that 2/2 for 2 is swinging as a 5/5 for 2, without requiring any other enablers (like haste). That is a massive increase in damage already built into the 2/2 - normally an increase like that would require additional investment beyond the card itself.
Barbarian_Sun_Pope on
2 years ago
Oops, made a mistake with Guardian of New Benalia. The Enlist mechanic can only be used with creatures without summoning sickness. Sorry for the confusion.
Icbrgr on
2 years ago
I like the idea of Guardian of New Benalia and I think its worth giving a shot to playtest. The honest truth is Juniper Order Rootweaver is very "meh" for the most part... the idea is the +1/+1 counter synergizes with Pelt Collector/Quirion Beastcaller and maybe allow for proliferate from Bloated Contaminator to take off on another creature... maybe I'll try splitting the two and see how it goes; Im going to a BIG Pioneer Gamestore next week so ill report back with how it goes!
Barbarian_Sun_Pope on
2 years ago
I like the variety of options in the spell choices (+1). Have you considered Guardian of New Benalia rather than Juniper Order Rootweaver? I think the Scrying and getting around summoning sickness using the Enlist mechanic might be more helpful. Hope this helps.