#Mtg thopter spy network rules upgrade

Then, using a hypergeometric calculator, and some ugly ass tables:Įven on turn one, you have roughly a 23% chance of getting a zero-for-one against a random opponent, which doesn't strike me as a card being worthy of a slot. Then further assume that your opponent's deck's curve also follows this ratio - that is, of their 23 non-land spells, 30% cost 4 or more. Most Riptide cubes have pretty low curves, and not a lot of spells with mana costs above three, which might make this dicier than in your traditional cube.Īssume that 30% of your cube has a cmc of 4 or greater (my own is closer to 27%, but I'll round up). Should be interesting.I think it has a pretty decent chance of whiffing, cast on any turn other than turn one. Just in general I feel like this new set is moving into some more interesting design space - token decks look very strong but there's also a lot of token-deck hate. Also he's pretty much always gonna be flying so it's not like you really lose anything a little extra toughness on your thopter stack is mostly irrelevant but it doesn't hurt. He's not gonna be an auto-include into every Thopter deck but that card draw is nice and the instant mana gain is very nice.

If you trigger his activated ability, and the only reinforcements you have on the board are the stack of this guy, he'll get -1/-2, lose 1 reinforcement count, and you'll draw a card and give it half its mana. If you also have a Thopter Spy Network out, when it triggers and you get four thopter tokens, instead of getting the tokens, this guy will get +4/+8 and his reinforcement count will increase by 4. If you cast Ornithopter, you get an Ornithopter, and this guy also gets reinforced, once, which will increase his P/T by 1/2 and his reinforcements counter by 1. Or else you're just fuzzy on how the 'leader' mechanic works. You're confusing him with Squee who is very non-standard for a 'leader' creature. And activate 3 is easy enough to hit that it should be pretty relevant (and half mana of every draw is pretty awesome too) I think he looks like a perfectly fine build-around rare. I mean, could you imagine Sai as a 4/5 with TSN out? I mean, even at a 2/3 that would get insanely huge insanely fast. Slimefoot's secondary abilities aren't as good, though, and he doesn't have flying (easier to block) and there are less saproling generators than thopter generators. I't'll be good in Saheeli, but I'm not sure that the other Origins cards, in general, are good enough on their own to justify the +1 toughness as a legitimate power increase for this card, especially when a leader like Slimefoot turns 1/1 saprolings into 4/5 Thopters are quite easy to spam a lot of.

#Mtg thopter spy network rules upgrade

The only thopter token in game is a 1/1, so 1/2 is already an upgrade and given his additional effects he is a nice receptacle for them. Losing a reinforcement reduces the stats associated with the reinforcement. Ornithopter is not a token and not subject to Leader. If the reinforcement buffs are permanent, with no fluctuation in it's power or toughness except for increasing, I could see why they kept it at 1.Ĭasting Ornithopter would reinforce him once via the cast trigger. Would it's 'Activate 3' ability weaken it if it lost a reinforcement? Or just lower the reinforcement counter on the creature?