It seems like a good card for a deck that wants
to swarm with tokens. But that five mana cost?
Most token swarm decks don't have that long to
wait, nor do most Boros Aggro decks. Intangible
Virtue makes this look awesome, but decks that
run Intangible Virtue already won the turn this
hits play. If this has a place, it's in Boros
Control. Control decks are perfectly willing to
take the time to build up incremental advantages
and that's what this card does. You don't care
if you lose a few tokens to bad blocks, because
you can make more next turn. If you can just
stall a game with this on the board, you can
build up an army big enough to win. This is also
great in a deck that runs board-wipe, since
you'll be getting a horde of tokens with haste
next turn and can thus recover from the wipe
much faster.
It also looks good next to another Gatecrash
enchantment, Five-Alarm Fire. With so many
tokens swinging, you can get a free 5 damage
pretty much every turn. Will Boros Control catch
on? We shall see, I suppose.
Today's card of the day is Assemble the Legion
which is a five mana Red and White that gains a
muster counter each of your upkeeps then puts
1/1 tokens with Haste into play for each of
those counters on it. This isn't exactly a bad
card as it generates an increasing degree of
threat each turn, but is a little too slow both
in mana cost and building up for competitive
formats.
In Limited this is a very effective card that
is easily splashed in Red or White decks and
obviously an automatic inclusion for Boros. In
only two turns you get the value of the five
mana and as the game continues the advantage
drastically increases as it can either block
entire offensives or be a one card alpha strike.
The only real drawback is it being a bad topdeck
by having no impact until the next turn, but
that doesn't prevent it from being a first pick
in Booster and well worth splashing in Sealed.
