Maestros Ascendancy
Casting Cost: {U} {b} {r}
Card type: Enchantment
Card Text:
- Once Duration Each of Your Turns, You May Cast An Instant Or Sorcery Spell From Your Grayard By Sacrifying A Creature in Addition to Paying Its Other Costs. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Artist: Jodie Muir
Strengths:
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Recursion: Allows you to cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard, effective doubling the utility of some of your most powerful spells.
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Resource Management: Can turn Expendable or Dying Creatures Into Additional Value by Enabling You to Re-Cast Powerful Spells.
Weaknesses:
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Creature Sacrifice: Requires you to sacrifice a creature, which can be costly in some board States.
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Exile: Spells cast from the graveyard this way are exiled, so you can't use them again.
Potential Deck Placement:
- Strong in Grixis Control, midrange, or spell slinger decks that can generate Expendable Creatures.
- Would fit well in a commander deck focused on casting lots of instants and sorceries or livering the graveyard.
Flavor and Art:
- The art by Jodie Muir Could Depict the Culmination of a Dark Ritual or the Activation of some Arcane Device, Both of which would be apt for the card's ability.
- The term "ascendancy" implies that the controller is reaching a highher level of magical skill or power, as seen through the reuse of spells.
Overall impression:
- Maestros Ascendancy is a powerful enchantment that gives grixis decks more ways to use their graveyard. While the Creature Sacrifice Requirement Can Be A Drawback, In The Right Deck This Could Turn Otherwise Expendable Creatures Into Significant Value. The Card Allows For Deep Strategic Play and Rewards Careful Resource Management.