Blue is very flexible and has some of the key cards in the format (voyage's end and griptide for instance). It usually plays more of a support role (i.e., the other color dictates the strategy), but it's almost always a good addition.


It's just not very good. If you flash it in to block with it, then it almost always dies, making it a really bad divine verdict. As a creature, it's pretty irrelevant, being a 3/2 for 4. It's only ever relevant when you are able to untap a bigger creature to use that creature as a blocker, but that situation happens far less often than you may think. I mean, look at our deck. What big creature do we have that we are likely to attack with and would like to use as a blocker?

blue/white can generate a good heroic deck

flying/evasion is good with ordeals

Am I bad for wanting Asphodel Wanderer? I really hated that chump until I realized how nice a lategame-relevant 1-drop could be, but having played with him he seems decent.

late gate regeneration can block vanilla monstrous all day and an early drop

Asphodel Wanderer

No, you're not bad. I was seriously considering it. However, it's very likely we'll see another one in the future at a point that we won't be fretting about taking it over something else.

it's 6 mana to regenerate two

Oh, the negative tempo play! I could maybe see it in a deck that really wants 1 drops for aggro anyway (like bunch of ordeals).

Pack 1:

Wingsteed Rider
Magma Jet
Baleful Eidolon
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Shipwreck Singer
Disciple of Phenax
Felhide Minotaur
Pharika's Cure
Disciple of Phenax
Gainsay
Lagonna-Band Elder
Opaline Unicorn
Unknown Shores
Yoked Ox

Pack 2:

Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver FOIL
Nimbus Naiad
Lash of the Whip
Sentry of the Underworld
Cavern Lampad
Returned Phalanx
Vaporkin
Gainsay

Next...

Hunt the Hunter
Thassa's Bounty
Asphodel Wanderer
Demolish
Staunch-Hearted Warrior
Chosen by Heliod

Well, here's your other wanderer. I think I prefer bounty however.

Yeah, I guess bounty can be our curve topper.

I'm very surprised to see a Staunch-Hearted Warrior this late. No one at the table must be white/green.

I absolutely hate Thassa's Bounty, but I guess we got to take it.

march of the returned is better card draw (not a current choice)

I've never played thassa's bounty but it has made decks.
It's less like to come again than Asphodel Wanderer

Not that my memory is this good but this pack had 2 rares, wingsteed, savage surge and voyaging satyr. So there's no signal here. Also the next pack has a bounty. I don't like wanderer so I am going to hate the enchantrip, chosen. No one needs to wheel that.

Pack 1:

Wingsteed Rider
Magma Jet
Baleful Eidolon
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Shipwreck Singer
Disciple of Phenax
Felhide Minotaur
Pharika's Cure
Disciple of Phenax
Gainsay
Lagonna-Band Elder
Opaline Unicorn
Unknown Shores
Yoked Ox

Pack 2:

Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver FOIL
Nimbus Naiad
Lash of the Whip
Sentry of the Underworld
Cavern Lampad
Returned Phalanx
Vaporkin
Gainsay
Thassa's bounty

Next...

Silent Artisan
Asphodel Wanderer
Agent of Horizons
Scourgemark
Viper's Kiss

Perfectly acceptable Scourgemark? Or do we take the Kiss?

mark

Viper's Kiss

This is relevant removal against many decks. Kills Vaporkin and various aggro starters, disables Voyaging Satyr. Scourgemark is very good if you have Heroes, and just decent otherwise.

Kiss. Not sure what mark would do for us.

That makes sense. Viper's Kiss it is.

Mark cycles itself and makes a threat better. But really, it cycles itself. A -1/-1 counter/situational removal spell is never better than drawing a card. Drawing cards is one of the most powerful things you can do in magic, and in 40card decks it's that much better.