Blahahah wrote: Also blightcaster is obscenely good. Comparing it to claust isn't exactly fair on account of it having 3x more board presence and outright removing the cards or softening them while your own get buffed. -2/-2 when its played, -2/-2 for every support you play after.
pandabear wrote: Yea but its 6 mana for a 2/2 while you could go 9 mana for a Mizzium who immediately wins you the game. We have to put some bound here on "suckiness" and there just isn't anything that Black does that someone else doesn't do better. Well, technically I suppose, and that would be "board wipe and then rebound" but when is that necessary? Why not just prevent them from casting any creatures in the first place (Jace) or simply pummel them into submission (gideon) or outright creature kill (chandra)? Berserk is the least useful of creature kill skills, after vigilance (first strike is a bonus) and DD, because it wastes a creature's damage for that turn. I'm sure you can make a black deck that does well (very well) in both pvp and story, but the problem is the other planeswalkers can do so much easier with fewer rare cards, and at lower levels. So this is why I rate her so poorly. How many of the really good things you mentioned are rares or above? While Chandra/Gideon can win hands down with no rares at all, and Jace only really needs ONE of his many amazing rares to work.
Blahahah wrote: *flops on the floor* I just never agree with pointing out the bad parts of something when there are so many good points you overlooked. Like does she suck? Maybe. Everyone on ladder plays Nissa so its really whatever, she does fine against green. But people reading it are going to just completely bypass a perfectly good PW, and the meta is made by people willing to break the mold a bit.
Kaneda wrote: And then I use enshrouding mist to help keep my core three alive if they're in danger of being taken out before they get going, also it counters destroy mechanics as currently destroy works by dealing the creatures toughness in damage to them.