![]() Improve your future draw steps.” Is this effect worth a card to us? Well, that depends on how much we’re improving our future draw steps. In the rest of our decks Elixir of Immortality reads “Gain 5 life. So what about all the other decks out there – do any of them want Elixir of Immortality? There are definitely decks that want Elixir for these purposes, Brian DeMars’s GP Boston winning deck was a UR Control list that needed Elixir to balance out his tremendous card draw and slow threats, for example, but the decks that want Elixir for one of these three effects are both very rare and easy to identify. And unless you have a ridiculous amount of card draw AND plan to go super long you simply don’t need a card in the main to protect yourself from decking. There aren’t many decks that want Elixir to provide inevitability, simply because there aren’t that many decks that can beat every card in their opponent’s deck but don’t have a way to actually win the game. Recycling specific cards is only relevant if you are subsequently tutoring for those cards – if your plan is to go long with Diabolic Revelation then Elixir makes sense as a way to cast your removal spells and Archaeomancers over and over again, but it’s only relevant if that specifically is what you are doing. Specifically, recycling specific cards, gaining inevitability, and gaining (some) protection from decking are simply irrelevant to most decks. ![]() It looks like Elixir of Immortality does a lot of things! Unfortunately, the things it does are irrelevant or marginal for most decks. ![]()
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