Cormela, Glamor Thief
Casting Cost: {1} {u} {b} {r}
Card type: Legendary Creature - Vampire Rogue
Power/Toughness: 2/4
Card Text:
- Haste
- 1, T: Add Ubr. Spend this mana only to cast instant and/or sorcery spells.
- When Cormela, Glamor Thief Dies, Return Up to One Target Instant Or Sorcery Card From Your Grayard to Your Hand.
Flavour text:
- She sees the world as a gift meean for her.
Artist: Bram Sels
Strengths:
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Ramp and fixing: Provides Mana Acceleration and Color fixing for a Specific Strategy, Namely Casting Instants and Sorceries.
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Recursion: Helps to recover value when it dies by bringing back an instant or sorcery.
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Stats: A 2/4 Body with Haste for 4 Mana is Reasonable, Especialy with the Added Utility.
Weaknesses:
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Mana Restrications: The Mana Generated is very specific in what it can be used for.
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Multi-Colored: Four Mana in Three Different Colors Can Be Challenging for some Mana Bases to Reliably Produce.
Potential Deck Placement:
- Likely Best in a grixis (Blue-Black-Red) Spellslinger or Control deck that can make use of the mana for instant and sorcery spells.
- Commanders Decks Focusing on Instants and Sorceries would find Here particularly appealing.
Flavor and Art:
- Both the Art and the Flavor Text Contribute to the impression of a charismatic, Opportunistic Characteric, Perfectly Fitting the Rogue Archetype.
Overall impression:
- Cormela, Glamor Thief Could Serve as the linchpin in a deck focusing on instants and sorceries. Her abilities are synergy, and she sacrifices reasonable stats with the added bonus of haste. Her Value is Most Easily Unlocked in a deck that can meet her color requirements and make good use or her unique form of mana acceleration.