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Gustha's Scepter
Alliances
Reviewed January, 2004
Constructed: 1.25
Limited: 1.10
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Bill
Level 2
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Thursday -
Gustha's Scepter
A card that was used in the first extended
builds of Academy decks to hide cards from
discard, it costs 0 and builds your artifact
count. (Hmm, sounds like another thing that is
pertinent today.) Other than that though, that's
all this does. And since it doesn't do anything
actively, it ends up being not too good.
In limited, it sucks just as bad, for the same
reasons as above.
Constructed: 1.25
Limited: 1 |
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The Game Closet - Waco,TX)
* pro tour player
* Scrye writer since 2002
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Thursday - Gustha's
Scepter
OK, I'm going to make this short and sweet
today.
DO
NOT
EVER
PLAY
THIS
CARD.
It seems like a waste of space in nearly every
way. It's uses are EXTREMELY linear and limited.
Constructed: 1
Limited: 1 |
Ray
"Monk"
Powers
*Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer
*Game Store Owner (Gamer's Edge) |
January 1 – Gustha’s
Scepter
Gustha’s Scepter?!? I wouldn’t tap a Mishra’s
Factory for that thing! Oh? I don’t have to you
say? Well then, let’s take a look… It’s free,
and you get what you paid for. In limited it’s
about as bad as it can get, especially since
that block had near nothing for good discard
cards, so what was there to be afraid of? Now in
constructed, it actually saw some use in some
sideboards, but mainly for combo deck who wanted
to protect combo pieces, and since Duress was in
by then, you had to be going first AND have it
in your opening hand for it to be as good as you
really needed it to be. In short, it was a neat
idea that just fell short.
Limited: 1
Constructed: 1.5 |
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Chase |
Gustha s Scepter
Happy New Year everyone! Let's hope you had fun
partying last night. Now onto the review. Now
you can see why Synod Sanctum and friends suck.
There was and always will be artifact hate. (Not
only do you lose the artifact from a Disenchant,
but you also lose all the cards under it.) But
there was a lot less artifact hate when this was
released. Obviously it s meant to be an anti
discard card. That is put the card that you can
t or don t want to play under Scepter until you
want to play it. (And black generally has a
tough time dealing with artifacts.) But it s
pretty useless otherwise. Oh well, at least it
costs 0 mana to cast and activate.
Don t even think about it in Limited. (Actually,
don t even dream about having an Alliances
draft. If you do, invite me.)
Vintage: 1
Limited: 1 |
Jason
Matthews
* Level 1 DCI
Judge
*game store employee
* gaming for over 15 years |
Thursday-Gustha’s
Scepter
Gustha’s Scepter has potential as a card for
your sideboard if you fear an area that has a
lot of discard decks. In limited I don’t think
this card is something that you would really
want to use that often because you don’t have a
lot to fear. There isn’t a lot of hand
destroying effects in a limited that would have
enough you needing this card. The good side of
this card is that it has a good activation cost
and it has a no cost to cast.
I can see a lot of people thinking that with a
cost of zero to cast, that this card could be
used in a combo deck such as Minds Desire deck.
There is much better zero casting cost artifacts
to use so avoid it and choose a better card.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Constructed: 1.5
Limited: 1 |
Jonathan
Pechon
2 Grand
Prix Top 8's
Multiple Pro Tour
appearances |
Gustha's Scepter
I believe that this card actually saw play in
Brian Hacker's deck in PT-Rome back in 1998,
mainly simply due to the fact that it costs
zero, though I do believe it saw some use as a
method of hiding cards from Duress and from
Lion's Eye Diamonds in his Academy deck, which
received acclaim as one of the more explosive
versions of the deck at the event. Digression
aside, the ability to hide cards is only mildly
useful at best, and Academy has long since seen
its days of usefulness fade. There are other
zero-cost cards available that are simply
superior to this. In limited, this card serves a
fine purpose: representing either one or five
life while you use your sideboard as a
life-counter.
Constructed: 1.75
Limited: 1.0 |
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Jeff Zandi |
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Gustha’s Scepter
In Alliances, some rares
(yeah, I know, Uncommon-1 for you expert
card collectors) didn’t seem as rare as
others. Seems like this BAD rare artifact
was in every booster pack I opened back
then. I thought this was the worst artifact
ever in the days of Alliances. It’s funny
how many worse cards have been printed since
then. Still, bad is bad.
LIMITED: 1
CONSTRUCTED: 1.5 |
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