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CardName: Convocation of Eagles Cost: 4U Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Put three 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying into play. Then, reveal up to three cards named Sea Eagle from outside the game, and put them in your hand Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Magic 20XX Rare |
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Part of a five card rare cycle with Guiding Whisp. Unlike the other four cards in this cycle, this one is very hard to do in draft. I have seen one player cast this and put three 1/1 flyers into play... but it doesn't seem worth it, really. Still perfectly fine for constructed, I suppose.
Though, I wonder what I planned to do about sideboards when dealing with this card. I can't remember what my original plan was. I could always 'tournament errata' the five bad creature cards to be any number in your sideboard. Granted, cards shouldn't do something that isn't written on the card... but that's more like written into the tournament rules... the cards don't do anything different in a normal game. Plus are you going to argue with a guy that has 15 Pearled Unicorns in his sideboard?
I'm not so sure about "fine for constructed". This looks rather like Icatian Town to me. Okay, they fly, but it's no Lingering Souls or Battle Screech. I don't think I saw nonwhite decks playing Spectral Procession for
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Hmm. I'm not arguing with you Alex, but none of those cards you mentioned put you up six flyers, or three flyers and three cards in hand. I'm willing to drop by
, though. You should, at the very least, get the equivalent of a 3/3 flyer for five to start. That makes sense.
I was talking about constructed, though, so it maxes out at 4, right? In constructed you can only have 4 of any one card total between your deck and sideboard. Unless you're relying on your quirky Sea Eagle and Sea Eagle to let people get 12 in there? I don't know if that works.
Those split cards are dropping. I like the idea, but when I went to assemble the packs, it just didn't look right at all (and it would kind of clue people into which pactmaker they should aim for. That's a big no-no in draft.) So, I'm just going back to the old method of putting the same 5 cards on the timeshifted sheet. How unfortunate.
Yeah, I'm not sure what to do with this card in constructed. Maybe I should have it put three bird tokens into play and three Sea Eagles into your hand? That solves a lot of the problem (including the draft complication) but... well... it ain't as fancy. I kind of like how fancy these cards are. Meh. Fancy doesn't trump playability, though.