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Hymn of Rebirth
- Ice Age
Reviewed
April 6, 2017
Constructed: 2.38
Casual: 3.88
Limited: 4.00
Multiplayer: 3.50
Commander [EDH]: 3.88
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David Fanany
Player since
1995 |
Hymn of Rebirth
There are actually plenty of reasons to use
old-school cards beyond nostalgia and the desire
to mix up the art styles in your decks.
Sometimes you will find something which can
completely wrong-foot and confuse opponents
raised on a different interpretation of the
color pie. Back in 1996, we might have just been
using it as insurance in case our Serra Angels
got hit by Dark Banishing, but don't
underestimate the demoralizing effect of
stealing someone's much-later-printed creature
when you're not playing a "reanimation color",
or the novelty factor of making a green-white
reanimator deck with Peace of Mind as part of
your setup.
I admire the amount of work that the designers
have done to make a clearly defined color pie
and roles for different colors, but I do
sometimes miss offbeat off-color effects like
this. There are times that the compelling flavor
argument, even as a one-off, makes for something
really exciting and interesting - I'm reminded
of Planar Chaos' red Akroma as another example.
Constructed: 3/5
Casual: 4/5
Limited: 4/5
Multiplayer: 4/5
EDH/Commander: 4/5 |
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James H. |
Hymn of Rebirth (4/6)
Five mana for an effect green and white usually
don't get is still a fair trade. It's a
reanimation spell, one that can target any
creature! It's a reasonable price to pay for the
effect, and it's a good part of the usual
creature-heavy strategy of the color
combination.
The downside is that green and white are merely
average at loading up graveyards with worthwhile
creatures, making it a bit weaker and less
likely to find a desirable target. Black has
discard and kill spells as ways of making this
happen...and its reanimation spells are cheaper.
If you can't go black, though, this is a worthy
substitute if your format is slow enough to get
to 5 mana (and Legacy is not).
Constructed: 1.75
Casual: 3.75
Multiplayer: 3
Commander: 3.75 |
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