As fun as this card is for flavor (rimshot) and as much as I love white life-gain cards about food from you, FOME, this one isn’t jiving with me. There are two cards with the double-your-life-total ability, and both cost 6 and are repeatable without direct intervention, the Mantle being an aura triggering and the Beacon being a Beacon. This has a practical equivalence of paying 8 for one go without the support of a Reset- or Awakening- like effect and a retrieval effect. It would be fun to build a deck around, might be nice in Commander or Singleton, but otherwise not worthwhile.
Of course, now I’m building the deck in my head. Zacama, Primal Calamity as the commander could get me Aurelia with a Celestial Mantle; Reset and Awakening could go with Mirari Conjecture and Snapcaster Mage and Prophet of Kruphix and Derevi, Empyrial Tactician could be the commander…
Yeah, I guessed when looking through cards to compare this to that you saw Oketra and moved up.
@digiman619
Precisely. (writes those cards down for later…)
Yeah, even going by Oketra’s Last Mercy, this probably should’ve cost three. :/
As fun as this card is for flavor (rimshot) and as much as I love white life-gain cards about food from you, FOME, this one isn’t jiving with me. There are two cards with the double-your-life-total ability, and both cost 6 and are repeatable without direct intervention, the Mantle being an aura triggering and the Beacon being a Beacon. This has a practical equivalence of paying 8 for one go without the support of a Reset- or Awakening- like effect and a retrieval effect. It would be fun to build a deck around, might be nice in Commander or Singleton, but otherwise not worthwhile.
Of course, now I’m building the deck in my head. Zacama, Primal Calamity as the commander could get me Aurelia with a Celestial Mantle; Reset and Awakening could go with Mirari Conjecture and Snapcaster Mage and Prophet of Kruphix and Derevi, Empyrial Tactician could be the commander…
… Well, crap.