Gitaxian Probe
One of the most interesting cards of the new set, Gitaxian Probe really reminds me of Street Wraith. When the Wraith was spoiled there was a lot of talk about playing a four of in every deck, simply to "cheat" on the number of cards in your library, reducing the total from sixty to a functional fifty-six.
In reality, things do not work as smoothly as one expects as having the Wraith leads to harder mulligan decisions, since you do not know what you're going to draw with it when it is in your opening hand. The same reasoning applies to Gitaxian Probe but the card has some interesting upsides in respect to Street Wraith.
First, you not only cycle the card but also get a "Peek" effect with the Probe, an effect that becomes even more powerful when attached at a zero mana cost as it allows you to see if the coast is clear before playing one of your big spells. Considering that in the actual Standard metagame resolving Jace, the Mind Sculptor or Primeval Titan is extremely important there are very good chances that this will see play in the format.Not to dismiss the fact that you can also just pay one blue mana instead of two life in the lategame.
It also increases your storm count for free, a feature that could lead to its inclusion in Pauper storm decks, that could benefit from looking at the opponent hand to see if they have an answer for Empty the Warrens or not.
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"I bet you did not expect to see this card in a constructed review, right?" Perhaps you missed Lord Erman's take on the set? He specifically mentioned Splicer for basically the same reasons you did. a 3/3 token + a 1/1 body for 3 is not bad at all.
Another thing nobody seems to be mentioning about blade splicer is that you can bounce your splicer with your jace and play him again, to build up a 3/3 each time. I can definitely see this coming up.
Also yeah, I'm pretty sure every constructed review is talking about this guy to some extent!
Yes, I've seen that and even LSV had mildly good words for it but when I started writing the article I still had not seen any of those :)
The most important thing about the splicers is that they generate an artifact with being an artifact. We can expect to see a fair amount of turn 4 Blightsteels thanks to this guy. Dunno if it's tournament worthy, but it's a solid combo.
EDIT: withOUT being an artifact :)
what?
I think he's referring to shape anew.
ahhh that actually makes sense when I include shape anew in there lol
Oh yeah, sorry, it was supposed to say withOUT being an artifact. In the forums I follow I'd seen a fair amount of chatter about the splicers replacing master's call etc for Shape Anew. But seeing as how we're not even seeing Inkmoth Nexuses being used for this, I'm not sure if there's a home outside casual play. And with all the tumble magnets and JTMS in STD I'm not sure that cheating a blightsteel into play is build-around worthy anyway.
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