Postby Qalyar » Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:39 am
Ivoery-legal Ports: Coastal Lane, Colonial Harbor, Deep Harbor, Kobune Port, Merchant Atoll
Very few decks are or can reliably run the holdover 6/5s, and you'd be daft to try to run this and them in the same deck. So Colonial and Merchant are out of the running. Coastal Lane is interesting, but reduced deck consistency runs counter to what's needed to make this go. Kobune Port means you're playing Mantis. Deep Harbor means you're not running Bookkeeper. That's a pretty narrow window for a Mantis gold scheme to capitalize on this, especially when Mantis has some pretty solid gold schemes already.
And, of course, to see the benefit of this card, you not only have to have a Port first, but you have to have cards in play with costed effects to spend the freebie 1G on. Those do exist, and Mantis does have some of them, but why would you bother with so many moving pieces needing to be in the right order for this? Get this first? It's a 5/3 Holding, and that's awful. Get the Port but not the costed effect? It's a Kharmic 3/3; if you think those are good (and aren't playing Strict, I suppose) run Traveling Merchant.
Not good.
: Produce 3 Gold.