[Card Discussion] Scent of Ivy

[Avenged Sevenfold]

Scent of Ivy   /G
Instant
As an additional cost of playing Scent of Ivy, Reveal X green cards in your hand, target creature gets +X/+X untill end of turn where X is the number of the cards revealed this way.

This card is often overlooked since it seems to have poor synergy with 10 land stompy decks since they play there hands quickly.

A few upsides to this card is that in the early game, most if not all cards in your hand will be green giving your creature a large pump for early damage. In the control matchup your hand seems to accumulate from lack of playing as many spells, this lets you eventually resolve scent to give a creature a large pump if it resolves.

Scent of ivy is usually weak after playing all of your cards in hand which isn't rare as almost everything costs 1 or 2 mana. Although the point stated above may be true, wouldn't that statement apply to running emyrial armor or plate in a white weenie although most people do play 2-3 plates or armors in there white weenie decks knowing that there deck has a cc set at 1-2.

I have been testing the card in my 10 land and it works how expected. I see it as a green empyrial armor for 10 land stompy. It does work very well but its better off being used as a room filler since there are better cards to use in 10 land.

Tell me what you think. Discuss...

[Tempe]

Are you talking 10 land stompy or Oshawa stompy?

On that analogy, it doesn't work, as White Weenie has a draw engine in Land Tax + Scroll Rack to fill its hand up, and it also doesn't play its threats out as fast as 10 land stompy does. If you build the deck right, 10 land stompy will dump its entire hand on turn 2-3, which is why pump like Bounty of the Hunt and Giant Growth is better, if you need pump at all.

However, 10 land stompy is largely obsolete in almost any metagame. In Oshawa Stompy its completely unnecessary since the creatures are big enough and its very conditional. It needs a creature in play that hasn't been blocked _and_ multiple green cards in hand. For the most part, Giant Growth will do better than that, and both are very subpar for the deck.

--Tempe

[Avenged Sevenfold]

Im talking 10 land stompy as noted several times in the opening post. I don't run it in my stompy at all but it is a reasonable card. If you're a player who cant find certain cards scent of ivy could be used in its place untill the cards you're looking for are in your possesion. Giant Growth and Bounty are more faster as you had noted and I had completely forgotten about the Tax Scroll/Tax Zuran Orb hand growereging thinger.