A decent one drop in any Human deck, or really
any White Weenie deck, since Human Knights and
Human Soldiers have already been quietly serving
in those ranks for years. Really, even one more
Human makes the Champion a 2/2 for one mana, and
remember how much luck we had with Isamaru? But
I can do better than references to older cards,
can't I?
Champion of the Parish is valuable not only
because it hist play early, but because there
is, strictly speaking, no limit to how big it
can get. As long as you can produce more Humans,
you can make the Champion bigger. The Achilles'
Heel of aggro has always been its tendency to
run out of steam, coupled with the comparative
weakness of its late game topdecks. If your
opponent survives long enough to start casting
Dragons and Baloths and Demons, your efficient
little 2/2's are going to look hopelessly
anemic. The Champion, however, can grow and thus
keep pace with opponents' escalating threats.
Of all the cards that are currently in Standard,
I think the one I'd be most amused to see
comboed with Champion of the Parish is Aether
Adept. With the Champion in play, cast Aether
Adept and target itself with its ability,
allowing you to add as many counters onto the
Champion as you have 1UU to spend on recasting
and bouncing the Aether Adept. Logic dictates
that a creature token generator would be more
efficient, as long as the tokens are Humans, but
what produces Human tokens? Crib Swap? I can't
think of anything at the moment, but I'm sure
someone will, and it'll find its way to my
garage. I'm laying the challenge down, folks.
Find a combo with this and send me the decklist.
In contrast with my comments from Monday, I was
definitely surprised to see human tribal cards
in Innistrad. Humans just didn't seem very
special as a tribe; but if anything can make a
case for them, it's Champion of the Parish, with
his stylish tricorner hat and intentions of
stepping into the Standard role vacated by the
various one-mana two-power creatures from
Zendikar. It's surprising how many creatures
that are used for other purposes happen to be
humans, and even if you just threw them all into
a deck together, the Champion would be decent.
When you start building around him, I think
he'll turn out to be much, much better than
that.
Welcome back readers today we are reviewing
Hada Freeblade oh I mean Champion of The Parish.
Champion accumulates counters the more humans
enter the battlefield under your control. In
standard humans will be split into two
archetypes green and white and straight white
weenie and with creatures like Mentor of The
Meek white weenie I feel will actually become a
legitimate deck type and humans will definitely
assist in that. In extended and modern human
archetypes may spring up as well. Modern has
access to Aether Vial making tribal
beatdown decks even better, I n legacy I don’t
foresee this card making much of a splash there
are already competitive deck types and this
doesn’t really fit the mold, maybe Death and
Taxes style decks. In casual and multiplayer
there are thousands of humans in Magic all
players have to do is mix and match and humans I
feel will be quite popular around the kitchen
table. In limited it forces you too value humans
quite highly and is a solid creature especially
if you can get a lot of human support cards.
Overall a great casual card that may see some
play in copetative human decks.
Today's card of the day is Champion of the
Parish which is a one mana White 1/1 that gets a
+1/+1 whenever another human enters the
battlefield under your control. For a
soldier deck this is a very solid first turn
play and aside from not having an effect without
support and decreasing in usefulness the later
it is drawn it is playable which should get it
slots in appropriate decks.
For Limited it is useful as a 1/1 and humans are
fairly plentiful in the set, so this soldier is
quite good here as well. While not a bomb
it is a decent first pick in Booster as long as
an eye is kept on the human type for later
choices. In Sealed a 1/1 for one is going
to be played regardless, though any humans for
support really make it shine.
Welcome to another
great card of the day review here at Pojo.com.
This time we look at Champion of the Parish from
Innistrad. Champion of the Parish is a white
rare human soldier that costs only one white
mana. He is a 1/1 that says Whenever another
human creature enters the battlefield under your
control, put a +1/+1 counter on Champion of the
Parish.
This is certainly a staple card for anybody
running a human based deck, or any white deck
indeed. The fact that he can become very large
in a human based, or soldier based deck is
absurd. Playing this guy turn one, and then say
two Elite Vanguards on turn two means you are
swinging for three damage turn two! That is just
carzy! The amount of nice and cheap humans that
exist from M12 and Innistrad are crazy, so
pumping this guy should be an easy
accomplishment. And let’s not forget that all
Werewolves start off as humans, so you could
bolster Champion of the Parish, and then sit
back and watch the human transform into another
super powerful creature, ultimately
strengthening your army even more.
Come out the gate with this guy and you are making a
statement that humans are the underdog, and a
force not to be messed with. Buff this guy up
and watch as your opponent squirms worse than if
there had been a werewolf, vampire, or zombie
instead! When used properly, this is to me a
better tournament contender than even Stromkirk
Noble.
