Elspeth Tirel is a white mythic rarity planeswalker in Magic: The Gathering's Scars of Mirrodin expansion, that was spoiled at the majestic Assault on Mirrodin party at PAX Prime 2010.
This particular iteration of Elspeth comes with tools allowing her to potentially win a game all by herself, and with proliferate (yes, it works on loyalty counters) making a debut in Scars of Mirrodin, there's little doubt that Elspeth will be a highly sought after card.
Elspeth Tirel
3WW
Planeswalker - Elspeth Mythic Rare
+2: You gain 1 life for each creature you control.
-2: Put three 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens onto the battlefield.
-5: destroy all other permanents except for lands and tokens.
Loyalty 4
With the ability to create troops and cleanse the board of threats, Elspeth Tirel is certainly going to be a card players will be trying to break in control decks. Other tokens will survive the wave of justice as well, so Elspeth should generate some interesting concepts with token oriented decks.
A major aspect of Elspeth Tirel is that she does not destroy herself with the wording of her "ultimate" ability, allowing a board lockdown to turn into a very one-sides situation after the first use. Since it's clear that proliferate will be available on a wide variety of cards such as the artifact Contagion Clasp, creature Thrummingbird, and the instant Steady Progress, planeswalkers like Elspeth Tirel have a whole new world of opportunities available to them in Scars of Mirrodin.
As far as Limited play goes, it's not difficult to analyze this card - yes, Elspeth Tirel is a first pick selection, and we can say that with confidence and we're not even close to having access to the full spoiler yet.
Get your shot at cracking one of the new Elspeth Tirel planeswalkers during Magic: The Gathering Scars of Mirrodin prerelease and release events coming up at the end of September!
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Comments
This Elspeth Tirel is actually worse than the old version. What a waste of mythic slot. You are overrating this card AS USUAL Mr. Dan Tack
Worse than the old version? Not in a token deck, and with ALL the token producers available...she's a great addition to the set. That's a foolish statement, Garret.
I like cheese with my penut butter... Dont judge me!!!
How can you say its worse? The old one sure has better +1 abilities, but don't forget how long it'll take to trigger her ultimate? Despite being a 5 drop Tirel can trigger her wrath effect a turn after she hits the field. She also kills other planeswalkers, that's a HEAVY bonus. Say bye to Jace TMS, Gideon Jura and all of em pw's you see in blue white control and whatnot.
After reading her ability, I've become a bit nervous about her. A staggering defense, unleashing a legion of white soldiers, then wiping out all nonland nontoken permenants. Then afterwards, releasing her tokens to charge in on the opposing player to make minsemeat out of them. Too bad my deck revolves around black undead cards.
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