Oreskos Sun Guide

Greven's Rating system:


Actually very annoying card to play against and bearz is bearz. 2.5, maybe even 3 because white is so st00pid good.

3.0

I did see them go late in my last draft, but that was probably just a fluke. Very hard to race against.

2.5 for me. Hard to give a 3 for a card that's not even the best 2 CMC common in white.

I feel that I should expand on this score.

The base toughness in BTT is 3. Each colour (except green) as 2 CMC commons with 3 toughness and once you move to 3 CMC loads of cards have at least 3 toughness. This generally means that a 2 power creature is going to need help to get through (fear not there is plenty of help). The issue is that you want to help creatures that say thank you in a big way. Sure 2 life is fine but wouldn't you rather have a +1 counter (hopilite and skyguard or the superbly generous phalanx leader). Obviously you need a critical mass of 2 drops but while okay the sun guide is, in my opinion, nothing special.

You made me look at white common and uncommon two-drop creatures in Theros block. There are eleven of them. I'd rank them this way:

Better than the Sun Guide: Phalanx Leader, Akroan Skyguard, Cavalry Pegasus, Leonin Snarecaster
Comparable to Sun Guide: Battlewise Hoplite, Akroan Hoplite
Worse than Sun Guide: God-favored General, Vanguard of Brimaz, Traveling Philosopher, Setessan Battle Priest

Two-drops are very hard to get lately, everybody picks them highly. The quality tricks are in Theros (unless you're blue), so the BNG two-drops should be even higher picks. In fact, if you plan on being white, unless you see the Skyguard, Ghostblade Eidolon and maybe the Elite Skirmisher, you should pick the Sun Guide.

But what rating this translates into, I don't know. 2.5 seems a bit low, but it's just a feeling.