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I disagree with you about maindecking Golgari Charm though. The -1/-1 ability hits relevant creatures in a lot more decks than you’re considering. It hits mana dorks to slow down G/W and Reanimator. It hits Lingering Souls tokens. It’s one of the few cards being played that hits Falkenrath Aristocrat. It hits G/W Humans. It hits Sorin Vamp tokens. It hits Snapcaster Mage. It hits Stromkirk Noble and Rakdos Shred-Freak. And so on.

When you add in the ability to hit Detention Sphere, O-Ring, Intangible Virtue, Underworld Connections, as well as the ability to regenerate from Supreme Verdict, Bonfire, Mizzium Mortars, or just an alpha strike, you have an incredibly flexible card that’s relevant against almost every deck. I play 3x main in my Junk Control deck alongside Selesnya Charm, Abrupt Decay, and O-Rings. Golgari Charm’s almost never a dead card.

The spec was a hidden option. I am a financial guy almost as much as I am competitive. In fact, when I started writing for this site, I wrote financial articles. Also, I have actively been trading for Regents because they are so cheap. Ultimately you must make your own decision, but I do think Regent has potential to grow a lot. She is nuts in Commander and that alone may carry her price a bit higher once the set stabilizes.

We’ll have to wait and see re: Regent. It begins to affect all of your other creatures in the next combat phase – but your opponent still gets to react. It depends on your board state when you cast her, plus whether or not you get at least one effective combat phase in before they knock her out.

Re speculation – I don’t think Mike was really focused on spec options, this seems like a game strategy article to me – there’s no financial analysis here!

Regent seems very vulnerable (fi Selesnya charm).

Also I don’t understand why an article about speculating on one or more cards is free content… ???

Any other thoughts?

I can’t stand when people evaluate the Titan test as 6 mana for 6/6 and then try to say it’s invalid because titans don’t exist. The fact is Titans were 6 mana creatures that did something when they hit play and did something IMMEDIATELY when they attacked. This creature still does nothing but cost 6 mana, doesn’t attack right away, and doesn’t do anything when it comes into play. If it lives, it might make another creature bigger that turn, might. It doesn’t even compare to Consecrated Sphinx because if the Sphinx lived to your opponent’s draw step, it replaced itself twice over. Right now, the vampire is a bulk mythic and an EDH card only.

And certainly if you’re stretching for the Vampire as an underrated call, some of your overrated calls are spurious. Azorious Charm is good because it can draw into Terminus on your opponent’s turn and putting a creature on top of the deck means it’s not going back to the graveyard to be Rites back into play (while also simultaneously blanking a draw step).

I do agree the Pack Rat is HIGHLY underrated right now and any control deck could easily use it as a finisher. I suspect it will be a big player once Dimir is released in Gatecrash.

I totally agree on the Necropolis Agent call too. Currently sitting at 0.58 tix on cardbot, this one’s an easy buy.

As for mana dorks they are far more underwhelming in the current std. A lot of games go forever with Thragtusk everywhere. Drawing these on turn 6, 7 is just punishing.