I think as time goes on, she will definitely see play in standard decks. I did get a few foils for $4.00 but that is the low end as of right now. This has made me invest more aggressively in foils and non-foils due to the current price, which is about $1.50-$2.00 for nons and foils at $5-10 depending on where you purchase. I've tested her close to 50 games now and I must say, I've been very impressed. Where he would have been worse were in games where I had taken a lot of burn damage or against various aggro decks.Ī card with conditional card draw matters so if you are strictly wanting a 2 mana 2/1 black creature draw engine, Bob is the better option but not as much as you think when compared to Glint-Sleeve. In most of those games, he would have been just as good or worse. The games she thrived in, I went back and evaluated those games to see if Bob being there instead would have been better, indifferent, or worse. This is probably what stood out to me the most. She has won me games in the same manner as Bob can.
She works quite well in both aggro and mid-range builds. Even R&D knew that if she was ever going to see play, she had to have some sort of built -in evasion. But even without Aether Hubs adding energy, she still creates her own when entering and during every attack, which is why she has menace in the first place. Without menace, she would be unplayable in basically any format.īob is less conditional when it comes to card draw but what I have found with Glint-Sleeve is that she gives you more options in how you draw for example, the damage you take each draw trigger is 1 regardless of casting cost of the card while Bob pings you based on the casting cost of that card and he forces you to draw which she always gives you the option to when you have 2 or more energy counters.Īether Hub must be a 4-of with Glint-Sleeve in order to maximize draw potential early in games. Her menace ability when comparing apples to apples makes her a better 2/1 creature than Bob because he's just a 2/1. Here is what I've come away with after extensive testing: Of course it's not Bob so I'll save the potential of a snarky comment accusing me of saying she is as good as Bob because she's not. Your opponent may not always see it coming if they’re expecting things from larger formats, and it’s a strong reason to go black in energy decks just in general.So I've been testing her a ton in modern this week in order to evaluate if it's as playable as Bob in other formats. The Siphoner is a callback to powerful black cards like Dark Confidant and Phyrexian Arena, but gives you more control over when and how you make the trade, and can just generate energy for other cards if you don’t need to draw extra cards for some reason. There were enough crazy cars and trains to recreate episodes of Top Gear, for one thing and cards like Glint-Sleeve Siphoner that dealt with energy counters did some cool stuff, even if it could feel bad that you can’t interact with energy as an opponent. The fact is, it had a lot of other interesting things in it. It really is too bad that the main thing we remember about Kaladesh right now is the banned cards and the craziness that had to do with tournaments at that time.
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