Tezzert, Agent of Bolas: Why are you so good in standard

That's right for this article tezzert agent of bolas will get a feature and believe me it's quite a long one, in the article i intend to discuss the fact he's popping up in every blue/black control build regardless, as well as the fact he's getting more expensive as the days go by, plus even give a little insight on what things may shape up to be like with another broken walker like him on the fields of the standard scene, so let's begin this little hell hole.

First i want to go over the price of this particular planeswalker, which recently has seen high rises of the 50 dollar mark for one copy of this card, it is that insane, for a card that has not seen a lot of tournament play except for perhaps the most recent stuff it sure is overpriced i mean the general idea of this card is it works with artifacts and what's better then artifacts, control and control as we may recall is slightly overpowered for it's time. Though i must admit seeing another small set walker like this take the standard field so quickly not even 2 weeks after it's official release date is quite surprising though kind of expected, plus most online retailers are settling for selling him at 50 to 60 dollars per copy these days, as was proven by starcitygames and channel fireball

I mean the list he's featured in is so broken, plenty of 1 or 2 drop artifacts leading into him ramping on turn 3 with cards like Sphere of the Suns or Prophetic Prism to get that extra card, then turn things into 5/5 attackers/blockers and sit back and let the rest get done, even digging in with his +1 ability to fetch extra artifacts when you've got enough to do the job, usually though 1 or 2 animated artifacts is enough to do the job in most cases so why do people play him, just to be competitve in most tournaments for crying out loud, he's gotta be the most broken walker besides Jace, the Mind Sculptor to even hit the standard scene, thank god jace is rotating out in 8 more months though. but to drop 200-250 bucks on a playset of these boys is ridiclous, standard is becoming the most expensive format to play in, thank god though for decks like White weenie and Kuldotha Red to balance out the field for those cheap builds otherwise this would end up being a game no one plays aside from competitve tournaments.

So i ask you people is it worth it to spend 200-250 bucks on a playset of Tezzert, Agent of Bolas when you could essentially make 3 really better aggro decks for that price, the answer is no not in my eyes when he drops and or if he drops in price to a cheap walker he might be worth it, but to those whom have him good luck, hold onto those copies and when september comes round sell em at a high price you'll make a decent buck, that's all for now on this little rant of the latest walker to come off wizard's of the coast's print line till next time this is vergil signing off.

Mirrodin Besieged Updates -Warning Major Spoiler Alert-

So as of this point we have seen 46 out of a possible 155 cards of mirrodin besieged, this set though it is small has a decent number of cards, more so then worldwake which came out around this time last year, again though we only have one planeswalker and here he is in all his glory, Tezzert, Agent of Bolas

This right here is the real deal, let's take a look at what he can do, first thing first is his loyalty it is 3 for a 4 drop that is awesome, jace beleren starts at 3 for a 3 drop that's pretty awesome too, His +1 ability though is intruging since it fetches artifacts from your library and makes them go into your hand, meaning the more artifacts you have, the more useful this becomes, His -1 ability is even better it makes non creature artifacts into creatures and attackers in general which ends the game even faster and in a heavy artifact set such as Mirrodin Besieged he is more useful in this manner, His -4 ability does direct damage to target players in the amount of artifacts you control times 2 and gives that much back in life to you the player whom controls him, who wants to bet this will start at 25 dollars US and go up because of his 2nd and 3rd abilites, huh well that's all she wrote for this one, i just wanted to give a major alert to you all for the fact i've been conducting spoilers for magic now since 2011's core set came out and i am loving every minute of it, till next time this is vergil signing off.