[Gatecrash] Treasury Thrull

[Thrillho]

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4WB
Creature -- Thrull
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay w/b. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever ~ attacks, you may return target artifact, creature, or enchantment from your graveyard to your hand.
4/4

[imopen2]

seems very meh...unplayable in constructed and not even very exciting in limited. for a rare it seems underpowered

edit: unless they are going to have extort 3 i'm not seeing a ton of use (at least for constructed)

[The Dark Guardian]

Any idea what the pre-release style is for Gatecrash?

Because I have a feeling if it's the same as RtR, we are looking at our pre-release champions. In Limited, the card seems solid, but rather depressing to open in a pack for any constructed format...

[Pendulum]

I dunno, selective card advantage is pretty powerful right now. He'll never be a chase rare but he might make a 2-of in the right deck (or a 1-of if they give us a decent creature tutor).

[Yannaria]

he seems decent in limited as he can regrowth your old creatures and gives your spells kicker 1 your opponent loses one like you gain one life. He makes your stuff a little better late game as limited can turn into a grind fest.
That said, I don't see this mechanic making a huge splash unless we see an aggressively costed creature with this tacked on, and even then... meh.

[Thrillho]

The mechanic seems best positioned for decks like UW Flash that like to maximize their mana as much as possible and play a lot of spells (via Auger, Snapcaster, Flashback, and Resto), that tend to grind opponents down with incremental and strict card advantage. Extort just seems like a good way to tack on that capability, assuming it's printed on a quality and aggressively-costed creature since Standard is presently a lot of midrange grind-fests. Tacking on draining an opponent for 1 for each spell and a mana may not seem like much, but when most decks, particularly these UW decks, are playing 3-4 spells a turn between 6+ Revelations, having a lightning helix each turn (particularly if you can stack extort triggers) can go a long way in tilting games in mind-bending ways.

Clearly a 4/4 for 6 is not going to best illustrate how effective that can be, but a 2/1 for 2 or a 2/1 flash flier for 3 or something similar might be a
good example. Or not since it doesn't have any innate advantage.

The ability may just be a worse Hellrider effect, which I guess is my current barometer for effective abilities.

[Shalako]

It's positioned best for 8 player kitchen table games.

[poggydude]

i want to see a land with extort a la cathedral of war

[Yannaria]

i want to see a land with extort a la cathedral of war

this would be so playable