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[Rodrigo]

 

Apparently, the hype wasn't just hype. This card is just incredible.

[Borderline Unplayable]

It's actually ridiculously annoying how much this card by itself influences deck building.

 

The aggro decks are at the point where control feels like it almost has to just play an "oops, I win" strategy, with the amount of protection against wraths and spot removal R/w now has. I do like how this card kinda makes Mutilate better, in a sense, though.

[Chaos Pudding]

It's probably the best card printed with Charm in its name. The double strike mode is surprisingly the least relevant of the 3 modes, and even then it can allow a creature to trade when it might normally not.

[Borderline Unplayable]

It should be noted that the other decks in the top 8 you'd expect to be playing it weren't playing it.

 

It's good, yes, but it's not amazing. It does the job it needs to do, but other cards fill other roles better in a lot of decks, and this really isn't that useful in them. Boros Charm is only good in Joel's deck as a pseudo-Lava Spike, really, with an infinite life combo that requires 3 specific cards and is in no way a reason to run a card.

[Kalam Mekhar]

Yeah, I'm fairly certain the Reckoner combo deck was a rogue for that particular tournament and I don't imagine it will see much play in that incarnation. As Borderline says, a 3 card combo in three colors isn't all that great to shoot for. It is probably the cheapest infi combo in Standard right now, though.

 

Boros Charm, however, does kick some serious butt, and I've had much more success giving a Rancor-ed dude double strike than any other mode. Protection from sweepers is pretty neat though. Oh yeah, and I'll kill your walker too.