A flying Dark Confidant for 2B is whatever on its own, but 2 flying Dark Confidants for 2BB and having the 3-cmc mode makes this have a lot of potential. 2BB is a 2 for 1 that can be a 4 for 1 after a single turn cycle is pretty enticing. Flying to contest monarch / initiative is nice to have too.
That's a lot of life loss, but given you can somehow compensate for that, this is insane value; +2 cards every turn, and 3/4 in flying stats over two bodies for 4 mana. The play pattern of trading off the 2/3 and leaving the 1/1 to generate card advantage seems very strong and easy to set up as well. This looks fun, will at least try it out.
The offspring effect on this card is really nice because it allows you to mitigate the lifeloss to the situation. If you are playing against a more aggressive deck or you draw it later in the game you may not want two copies of it.
Strangely this card reminds me of The One Ring drawing multiples but very heavy on the lifeloss if you dont find a way to win or remove it yourself. I've won plenty of games off of my opponents dark confidant killing them. If it wasnt for the recent bump in lifegain in black thanks to Barrowgoyf, preacher of the schism, and Sorin of House Markov I might be more weary of this card but will give it a test now for sure.
The 3-mana mode fails spectacularly against most spot removal, and the 4-mana mode, while more resilient, puts a pretty oppressive timer on yourself. If say the average MV of your deck is around 1.5 (lands included), you're losing on average 3 life per turn to your own card, which is back breaking in a lot of matchups. Obviously the card gets a lot stronger when paired with something like Top, but repeatable sources of deck manipulation are few and far between. The flexibility is Darkstar Augur's one saving grace, but I'm not sure if it's enough to salvage it.
I once farted during the final match for prizes at an FNM. It was a tense moment, everything was quiet, control vs control, I was about to mana leak, thought about it.. and farted. Then mana leaked.
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StaffA flying Dark Confidant for 2B is whatever on its own, but 2 flying Dark Confidants for 2BB and having the 3-cmc mode makes this have a lot of potential. 2BB is a 2 for 1 that can be a 4 for 1 after a single turn cycle is pretty enticing. Flying to contest monarch / initiative is nice to have too.
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Have to be very conscious about losing/gaining life and the deck you put this in though.
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Strangely this card reminds me of The One Ring drawing multiples but very heavy on the lifeloss if you dont find a way to win or remove it yourself. I've won plenty of games off of my opponents dark confidant killing them. If it wasnt for the recent bump in lifegain in black thanks to Barrowgoyf, preacher of the schism, and Sorin of House Markov I might be more weary of this card but will give it a test now for sure.
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Death by Confidant is the purest death though.