Joiner Adept is a very interesting card. With
it, you can play any combination of colors in
your deck. In limited, the Adept is seen rarely
(…because it’s like…a RARE) but is always
valuable. Joiner Adept really shines in
constructed play. Unfortunately, when this card
was originally printed in Fifth Dawn, not many
decks found a use for it. I believe that might
be different now that Joiner Adept has returned.
This card’s ability to open up green decks for
other colors may be very useful in today’s aggro/control
designs.
For some reason, I always thought Joiner Adept
was a 1/2 for 2G. Maybe because I figured a 2/1
for 1G would just be too good. Despite not
actually tapping for mana herself, this is among
the most potent "mana Elves" ever printed. With
her in play, color screw becomes a thing of the
past and even Dark Depths starts to look viable.
And she even swings for 2, not that she ever
will of course. I almost want to build a 5-color
aggro deck now.
Constructed- 3
Casual- 4.8
Limited- 3.8
Aethereal
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Joiner Adept
One of the more surprising cards to make it into
Tenth, in my opinion, especially considering
that Birds is in the set. This lady never found
a home in constructed when she was Type 2 legal,
because there was no way you could abuse her
ability before you got killed by Affinity, Tooth
and Nail, etc. Unless there's a lot of
five-color action in Lorwyn, I don't see her
being anything more than a color smoother, and
Birds does the job ten times better. She's a
good smoother for casual, though, so if you're
playing a 5CG deck there, this should be highly
considered.
In limited, good for smoothing your mana, and
splashing for a third color. I'd take it fairly
highly, but not over removal or a bomb.
2 for a 3/1 is not bad. But this elf will see a
lot of play once the dual lands rotate out. If
you plan on keeping dual/tri colored deck this
is a must. The 2/1 body is also viable beat
stick vs control decks also. In any format this
is an awesome mana fixer.
Constructed: 5
Casual: 4
Limited: 4
David Fanany
Player since
1995
Joiner Adept
Joiner Adept is a cute card, but may not amount
to much more than that. Compare it to Birds of
Paradise and Wall of Roots. Both are more
powerful for at least a few applications; the
Birds for their speed, the Wall for its defense
(and the ability to cast Chord of Calling with
only one forest). On the other hand, Joiner
Adept is a 2/1 creature, thus a significant
threat in itself. That's the same reason Dark
Confidant is so good, so I'm reserving final
judgment for now. Provisionally, I'd say Joiner
Adept isn't going to be big in Standard, but I
wouldn't be surprised if it gets played
somewhere.
Constructed: 2/5
Casual: 4/5
Limited: 2/5
The Missing
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Joiner Adept
This is a reasonable cost card that I always
felt was underrepresented in the constructed
world. I think this was because it came when
color fixing was easy. By the looks of things, I
would not be surprised to see this sneak into
some block constructed as color fixing is not
that easy right now. Of course green always has
other solutions. I like this card and always
have but it is only somewhat good.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 4
Limited: 4
PsychoAnime
#1
Magic Noob in Canada since 2002
Right now, I
don't see much use for this card, at least in
Constructed.
The Ravnica dual lands plus the reprint of the
other dual lands in
10th Edition makes it pretty hard to get colour
screwed. I guess it
can be used in a 5-coloured deck, but I doubt
the competitiveness of
said deck if it requires this to save itself
from color screwed.
In casual, this can help the budget player use
more wacky combos that
require more types of mana. It's also an Elf.
In limited, it's rather efficient and smooths
out mana.
