#token stratagies

[pepperstrawberry]

A dumb but amusing thought...

Okay, before I go into this, I must reiterate: I am a casual. I don’t keep up on every deck or every protour. I don’t play magic near as I would like... Still, there are things I notice...

Okay, so here is the silly theory: Goblin Chainwhirler, currently a frustration, might just be one of the cards that, if you can find a space in your deck (yes yes, shocks help, but it’s still best in a mono deck and frankly, I kinda doubt a straight rdw is going to be around after rotation... again, could be totally wrong) might actually be a help rather then a hinderence (that is not a busted card, but rather something needed, not to win, but survive)

First, consider all the saproling generators we already got in Dominaria (in Golgari colors no less), and then add in the new Emmara (with convoke being a super easy way to get her tapped and keep her out of direct combat) and Legion Warboss (giving haste and having Mentor)... I think these are signs that Ravinca might have a larger token strategy then normal.

Possibly much larger then we’ve seen in a while.

Sure, Chain fren up there can wipe the board. But unless you take out Emmara, she is going to keep churning out more tokens. Remember, Chain is an ETB, so unlike the dread of Ferocidon, it doesn’t keep going. After Chain settles in, it’s just a 3/3 with first strike. Nothing to sneeze at, but if your opponent is able to get back what you took out the next turn, it’s not going to matter that much.

Maybe I’m totally of base. Maybe I’m reading the winds wrong... But at the same time, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was actually in preparation for giving potential tools to deal with the coming wave. XD 

(and possibly the RRR was to keep Gabo up there from getting into too many decks too easily. Imagine if Ferocidon was not banned. Every token pinging the token players. Gobo clears one field of whatever 1/1s are around, but the other would just basically stop the token player from even trying till they used up some removal. so rather then tokens having a chance, it would be a total shut down and you’d see that card in every deck that even looked at red)

Again, maybe I’m wrong. I’m just saying, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the intention in the first place.

(forgive any spelling or word flow errors... i’ve been up all night and I’ don’t know why... now to watch more rider or sleep?)

{edit... one last time} The amulet’s very existance is why I came on these theory. I have heard literally -no one- happy with, talk about using, or even bothing with the Amulet. it feels like a stricktly worse Orbs of Warding from Origins... but with a slight addition (the token debuff) and I was like ‘wait... what if?’ XD