PREVIEWING RUSHING-TIDE ZUBERA
I’ll tell you, when Betrayers came out with no zuberas, I began to feel a bit…well, betrayed. After all, with a full cycle of five zuberas in Champions, this new creature type had some interesting potential. But of course, Wizards can’t follow up on every "interesting" start, and so zuberas (whom so many fondly call "zebras") looked like they would die off completely.
Well, not quite yet.
So That’s It?
My readers depend on my honesty, and I’ll give it to them this week, as in every week. When I first looked at Rushing-Tide Zubera, my reaction was, "so that’s it?!" After all, it doesn’t have "epic" or "legend" written on it.
Then I thought about it a little, and I understood.
The central lesson today is much more useful than a whiz-bang card. The central lesson today is about understanding subtlety in your Magic game. Subtlety wins you games. It draws you cards, deals damage, and outlasts the opposition. The best multiplayer decks do have a whiz-bang card here and there. But they spend the first three or four turns building to that point, and supporting the player to the point where something more flashy can happen.
Rushing-Tide Zubera, by that standard, is one of the best support cards you’ll see in multiplayer decks, for years to come. Don’t build a deck around it. Put four copies into that other deck that’s looking for something solid around turn four.
Once you understand why that works, you’ll understand Magic a great deal more. And you’ll also understand why Wizards – and this writer – is excited about this preview card.
All that said, I’m still gonna try to build a deck around it!
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LET THE TIDE RUSH IN Posted in Serious Fun on May 18, 2005
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/serious-fun/let-tide-rush-2005-05-18
《寄せる潮のずべら/Rushing-Tide Zubera》のプレビュー記事です。
『神河物語』で登場したずべらが『神河謀叛』で登場せず、がっかりしたプレイヤーもいたことでしょう。それが、『神河救済』で復活、しかも新しいバージョンになりました。
ずべらの死亡数を参照しなくなった分、安定した効果が見込めるようになり、サイズが向上したことで、戦闘でも頼れるようになっています。
能力を生かすべく、デッキのアイデアも書かれています。新旧両方のずべらを並べて、全体火力で能力を最大限誘発できるようにしています。また、『神河救済』の新メカニズムである魂力をもった《燃え上がる大地、地把離/Jiwari, the Earth Aflame》も早速採用されているのも特徴的です。
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