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Title: Ramp into Ætherling
Post by: the_intelligentleman on December 06, 2014, 10:49:39 AM
Alright. I like the card {Ætherling}. A lot. And I was wondering if there was anyway to make it fit in a modern deck. So here's my thought. Ramp into it. A turn three of four Aetherling is pretty darn good. I need help though and have no idea how to make it work. Thoughts?
Title: Re: Ramp into Ætherling
Post by: cltrn81 on December 06, 2014, 11:27:29 AM
Personally I feel it is unplayable in modern.  Even ramping into it does not guarantee to have an open mana available to save him from removal.  A ramp deck should be doing better things with a six mana creature IMHO.
Title: Re: Ramp into Ætherling
Post by: Kaalia with haste on December 06, 2014, 12:13:02 PM
Could maybe be a control deck win condition. That's about all I've got for it though.
Title: Re: Ramp into Ætherling
Post by: Munchlax on December 06, 2014, 06:46:47 PM
Quote from: Kaalia with haste on December 06, 2014, 12:13:02 PM
Could maybe be a control deck win condition. That's about all I've got for it though.
There are better cards to win in control with
Title: Re: Ramp into Ætherling
Post by: Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth on December 06, 2014, 07:48:25 PM
Yeah, the biggest problem is that you are looking at 7 mana for it to be effective and a UG shell to make it work, you might as well play {Scapeshift} at that point.
Title: Re: Ramp into Ætherling
Post by: blackychan1 on December 06, 2014, 08:40:18 PM
Scapeshift+ ætherling??
Scæpthershift?
Title: Re: Ramp into Ætherling
Post by: Kaalia with haste on December 07, 2014, 10:31:44 AM
Quote from: Munchlax on December 06, 2014, 06:46:47 PM
Quote from: Kaalia with haste on December 06, 2014, 12:13:02 PM
Could maybe be a control deck win condition. That's about all I've got for it though.
There are better cards to win in control with
That's true, I didn't say it was the best control deck win condition, I just said it could be one
Title: Re: Ramp into Ætherling
Post by: cltrn81 on December 07, 2014, 02:00:20 PM
It is an out of the box idea and I do not mean to shoot it down without giving it a thought.

I just think any deck with {U} as control is doing other things with their mana.  Casting a {6} CMC creature is not typically what {U} control wants to do.  Then you talk about ramp and {G} comes to mind......at that point your {6} CMC creature may as well be a {primeval titan} or something like that.  I am just trying to wrapt head around a deck that what's that {6} CMC creature so bad and I do not see it.

It takes a lot of mana to get him to the point that he is swinging unblockable as a big creature and at that point, what does your opponents board state look like?