The mythic rarity in mirrodin besieged.

Here in this  article i would like to analyse the mythic rare cards printed in the last set mirrodin besieged.
Let's start our analysis of those 10 new cards with :

Blightsteel Colossus

Price tag:15$
This is a new emrakul like card that can get you the game with one swing most of the time.It is vulnerable to a lot of mainboard removal of the current standard ,journey to nowhere jace bounce and most bounce effects will get this guy out of the battlefield.There is even more room for hating this card if he ever makes it out of fnm type decks in the form of spells like revoke existence and arrest.
I believe this card to go down in the 8-9 $ range as all people will want one or two copies of this guy for their binder or casual decks but this is it.There are few things that cost so much as (12) to bring down and this guy offers very few assets compared to his mana cost...People will try to make him hit the board now and then with other ways than just casting him but the times of 11/11 creatures are gone for now.

Consecrated Sphinx

Price tag:8$

In the times of titans such cards cannot do anything to see constructed play.A flier for 4/6 with a good card drawing effect has nothing to do with the current standard.There are a million ways to remove this one out of the battlefield and i see no reason to keep this one in any deck other than a fun fnm deck with jace's erasure and some mill effects.A bad mythic of what i would consider 2-3$ actual worth.

Glissa the traitor

Price tag:8$

This card is offering something almost not seen before (apart from nirkana cutthroat at kozileks cost) , other than that it has some short of irrelevant colours like (G)(G)(B) and a secondary ability that is quite difficult to be exploited at this point of standard.It is withing bolt range and go for the throat has made this creature even easier to remove.I dont see much in this card at the moment and i wouldnt pay more than 4$ to acquire it.

Hero of bladehold

Price tag:10$

This one is a strong card that has one disadvantage, it has to attack to justify its mythic rarity!It is easy to remove as it dies to all removal spells apart from those in the red deck arsenal but its effect is extreme if a game status leaves this for more than 2 turns on the battlefield as from there on it will be unstopable...I like this card and its effects and i believe it might see constructed play some time in the future.It is not a format staple but it is not bad.I would give up to 6-7$ for this one.

Hero of Oxid Ridge

Price tag:8$

This card has a strong effect in the decks it might be usefull, it evades walls and chump blockers of all shorts and does so effectively at the round it hits the boards.The good thing is that all the others attacking withit will evade walls.The drawback? it has 2 toughness.Now how bad is 2 toughness against u/w and u/b control?

They will have to use removal of some short which wouldnt care fot the toughness of a creature anyway!I believe this card has the potential to be a boros valuable as it can even finish game.The haste factor is just too good and battlecry is a must for aggro decks nowadays !Its price tag is fair enough and i am sure a lot of people will die the turn this hero hit the board in the next one year or so for sure!If you love aggro just grab your playset of those before they get to higher price tags!

Massacre wyrm

Price tag:10$

I dont like this card apart from its limited use.It is a card that might kill some aggro players the moment it hits the board, its effect is indeed strong but at 6 mana in the era of titans we have come to require more!By turn 6 an aggro deck will have you killed or it has lost the game.The aggro player more or less knows that.This one has some board sweeper potential but nowadays aggro decks have anti pyroclasm strategies.Most of them are built to evade pyroclasm effects even with main board answers.So its sweeper effect might do absolutely nothing.And then you are left with a 6/5 wyrm...Too much for a mythic black craw wyrm..

I wouldnt trade for this card neither buy it.Even when it reaches 2$.Sunblast angel is by far better and its a rare 4/5 flier!

Praetor's Counsel

Price tag:4$

I wouldnt ever , ever like to open this one in any of my boosters and will be very sad if i did.It is a 1$ mythic.That and no more.

Sword of feast and famine

Price Tag:12.50 $
Well another sword with protection from a colour that shouts REMOVAL.I like the pro black it is very effecient against a lot of decks.The untap ability might come in handy where the discard effect is coincidential.It might come in extremelly usefull or irrelevant.I like the sword and i believe it has is place in ww quest decks.It is not as good as sword of mind and body but i believe its price will remain around the 10$ range.We will see this piece of toolbox around more than often in the time to come.All thanks to stoneforge mystic.

Tezzeret, agent of Bolas

Price tag:35$

The planeswalker of the set.He is cool at first nice artwork shows some power level, but are his abilities any good?One thing is for certain , he needs artifact in order to function in ANY way and he can do nice with them.Being black is a GREAT disadvantage as a celestial purge sends him to some other plane of existence along with devout lightcaster.He will see play as he is a planeswalker and people will try in any way to break him.He comes ultimate really fast but his ultimate isnt a killer.Not in ways a u/b deck will make it a killer.I think he is overpriced at the moment and will drop to the 20$ range.Even if a deck will find a way to abuse him this wont be for long.Artifact removal is sooo common in the mirrodin besieged era and all decks have the capability of mutilating an artifact based deck real fast in the metagame.When i first saw him like most players i expected a new jace like planeswalker, i was disappointed a lot.Time will tell about this card.

Thrun, the Last Troll

Price tag:20$
This one has been printed to provoke a headache to control players.It will until some card like baneslayer or disperse justice moves to the control mainboard to deal with this one.I believe he is sideboard material and that's it.He needs 6 mana to be an active regenerator and a primeval titan is always the best drop green has to offer at that range.He will do a good work to poke on enemy jaces but no more than that.White has a lot to do against him and black has come to some outs recently.He ll drop soon to the 10-15$ range as against some much ups it is just a mediocre 4/4 that can be considered indestructible.Control will find a way around him and there are many answers against him.Great sable stag was better than this guy and it didnt last long as the control decks bane.So nor will this guy.After the print of jace the mind sculptor i can see the way to stop this card from reigning in standard tournaments.The answer is october 2011.


Hope you enjoyed my thoughts on the mythics printed for besieged!Time will tell which one of them will be of value in the end and which one will break standard!(if any)Till then stick around for more feedback!