[Single Card Discussion] Runed Halo

[BruiZar]

Runed Halo*
Enchantment   Rare
As Runed Halo comes into play, name a card.
You have protection from the named card. (You can't be targeted by it, and all damage that would be dealt to you by it is prevented)

What are your thoughts on Runed Halo? its like a True Believer that can also name creatures (Such as DSC, Piledriver, Tarmogoyf, Psychatog, Quirion Dryad or Virulent Sliver delaying the poison counters). Is it too narrow or do you foresee it being played?

I'm not sure on the effectiveness of this card as a silver bullet yet, but it seems usable. Also I think this trend of white's Can't-Be-Played-control may lead to a very disruptive new archetype in the future.

Feel free to comment on Runed Halo

[Outlaw]

Runed Halo*
Enchantment   Rare
As Runed Halo comes into play, name a card.
You have protection from the named card. (You can't be targeted by it, and all damage that would be dealt to you by it is prevented)

What are your thoughts on Runed Halo? its like a True Believer that can also name creatures (Such as DSC, Piledriver, Tarmogoyf, Psychatog, Quirion Dryad or Virulent Sliver delaying the poison counters). Is it too narrow or do you foresee it being played?

I'm not sure on the effectiveness of this card as a silver bullet yet, but it seems usable. Also I think this trend of white's Can't-Be-Played-control may lead to a very disruptive new archetype in the future.

Feel free to comment on Runed Halo

1st Issue is its  .  2nd issue, decks run multiple win conditions.  Storm Combo runs both warrens and tendrils, name one and they easily get the other.  Flash is in general changing to the Lark kill, name Mogg Fanatic?  Get a X/X feeder on you next turn.  Card is horrid vs. any form of Aggro.  Name Dryad against GAT?  Take a goyf or Tog to the face.  Colossus? Tendrils or X which is whatever the hell they run aside from that.  Its cute but unreliable to cast and too broad to be effective.

[rkmancer]

Runed Halo*
Enchantment   Rare
As Runed Halo comes into play, name a card.
You have protection from the named card. (You can't be targeted by it, and all damage that would be dealt to you by it is prevented)

What are your thoughts on Runed Halo? its like a True Believer that can also name creatures (Such as DSC, Piledriver, Tarmogoyf, Psychatog, Quirion Dryad or Virulent Sliver delaying the poison counters). Is it too narrow or do you foresee it being played?

I'm not sure on the effectiveness of this card as a silver bullet yet, but it seems usable. Also I think this trend of white's Can't-Be-Played-control may lead to a very disruptive new archetype in the future.

Feel free to comment on Runed Halo

1st Issue is its  .  2nd issue, decks run multiple win conditions.  Storm Combo runs both warrens and tendrils, name one and they easily get the other.  Flash is in general changing to the Lark kill, name Mogg Fanatic?  Get a X/X feeder on you next turn.  Card is horrid vs. any form of Aggro.  Name Dryad against GAT?  Take a goyf or Tog to the face.  Colossus? Tendrils or X which is whatever the hell they run aside from that.  Its cute but unreliable to cast and too broad to be effective.

I'm sorry for asking. .
But is it work if we name Empty the Warrens?? Since Warren says : "Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play.
Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.) "
Consider we name 'Goblin' as a name, will all goblin token's damages be prevented by Runed Halo?

[Troy_Costisick]

1st Issue is its   .  2nd issue, decks run multiple win conditions.  Storm Combo runs both warrens and tendrils, name one and they easily get the other.  Flash is in general changing to the Lark kill, name Mogg Fanatic?  Get a X/X feeder on you next turn.  Card is horrid vs. any form of Aggro.  Name Dryad against GAT?  Take a goyf or Tog to the face.  Colossus? Tendrils or X which is whatever the hell they run aside from that.  Its cute but unreliable to cast and too broad to be effective.

Pithing needle is looked at as a legitmate SB answer to Flash or Ichorid.  Why wouldn't this?  In fact this is more versitle because you can also name Virulent Sliver and not take the poison counters from them.  Don't dismiss this card out of hand just yet.  It's major draw back is its   casting cost, not its single target effect.  Maybe a Fish or a R/w TMWA will stock this thing.  We'll have to see.  But it's a good card and will have a place somewhere in Vintage at some point.  Nullifying half the threats in your opponent's deck is always good.

Peace,

-Troy

[Sporkcore]

Pithing Needle is also an artifact that can be played in any deck and can be used on a broader spectrum of cards. If you want some mana denial, name a fetchland, if you want to give workshop decks a mons goblin raider, name Welder, etc.

[Toad]

But is it work if we name Empty the Warrens?? Since Warren says : "Put two 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens into play.
Storm (When you play this spell, copy it for each spell played before it this turn.) "
Consider we name 'Goblin' as a name, will all goblin token's damages be prevented by Runed Halo?

It is legal to name Empty the Warrens, but this will indeed do nothing since damage is not done by the card itself but the Goblins it created. There is no card named "Goblin" so you are not even allowed to name that to prevent damage from Empty the Warrens.

I think that card is complete crap, it will never prevent your opponent from winning. On top of that, if you consider the casting cost ...

[Outlaw]

1st Issue is its   .  2nd issue, decks run multiple win conditions.  Storm Combo runs both warrens and tendrils, name one and they easily get the other.  Flash is in general changing to the Lark kill, name Mogg Fanatic?  Get a X/X feeder on you next turn.  Card is horrid vs. any form of Aggro.  Name Dryad against GAT?  Take a goyf or Tog to the face.  Colossus? Tendrils or X which is whatever the hell they run aside from that.  Its cute but unreliable to cast and too broad to be effective.

Pithing needle is looked at as a legitmate SB answer to Flash or Ichorid.  Why wouldn't this?  In fact this is more versitle because you can also name Virulent Sliver and not take the poison counters from them.  Don't dismiss this card out of hand just yet.  It's major draw back is its   casting cost, not its single target effect.  Maybe a Fish or a R/w TMWA will stock this thing.  We'll have to see.  But it's a good card and will have a place somewhere in Vintage at some point.  Nullifying half the threats in your opponent's deck is always good.

Peace,

-Troy

Its problem is really its single target effect when decks run multiple win conditions.  Flash is using the superior Lark kill in most cases.  In case of slivers, heart sliver still slaps down poison.  Naming warrens doesnt seem to prevent damage from tokens.

[coyoteuglly]

1st Issue is its  .  2nd issue, decks run multiple win conditions.  Storm Combo runs both warrens and tendrils, name one and they easily get the other.  Flash is in general changing to the Lark kill, name Mogg Fanatic?  Get a X/X feeder on you next turn.  Card is horrid vs. any form of Aggro.  Name Dryad against GAT?  Take a goyf or Tog to the face.  Colossus? Tendrils or X which is whatever the hell they run aside from that.  Its cute but unreliable to cast and too broad to be effective.

Pithing needle is looked at as a legitmate SB answer to Flash or Ichorid.  Why wouldn't this?  In fact this is more versitle because you can also name Virulent Sliver and not take the poison counters from them.  Don't dismiss this card out of hand just yet.  It's major draw back is its  casting cost, not its single target effect.  Maybe a Fish or a R/w TMWA will stock this thing.  We'll have to see.  But it's a good card and will have a place somewhere in Vintage at some point.  Nullifying half the threats in your opponent's deck is always good.

Peace,

-Troy

Its problem is really its single target effect when decks run multiple win conditions.  Flash is using the superior Lark kill in most cases.  In case of slivers, heart sliver still slaps down poison.  Naming warrens doesnt seem to prevent damage from tokens.

Without looking it up my best guess would be you have to name "Goblin" because that is the name of the token.  Assuming you can prevent it from a token at all because Runed Halo specificly says "name a card".

As for the question is this card good.  I am thoroughly convinced it is not better than Meddling Mage.  Which is probably the card that it seems like it would be fighting for space with.  I can't really see this card being played outside of a Fishesque deck.  With Mage you can name things like Merchant Scroll and it attacks for two.  Or against something like Flash if you have Leyline of the Void in play you can name Chain of Vapor and effectively win the game right there.  Halo only turns off win conditions, which also get turned off by Mage also can be effectively shut down by Mage.  Mage also tends to cut things off at the soure and requires less guessing.

Examples:

Mage = Tinker > Halo = DSC or Sundering Titan?
Mage = Flash > Halo Mogg Fanatic or Virulent Sliver?

[hauntedechos]

My guess is that U/W/B Fish could make use of the card as a 1-2 of Max, even 2 seems exhausting on the  mana base.  I see this card playing in the sandbox with Meddling Mage, and using it to cut off win conditions while Mage is free to be set on enablers.  The use of this card MAY reduce the need for B in Fish decks, however I'm not convinced on that fact as of yet.

Haunted.

[Lemnear]

We're aware that naming EtW is total crap but I'm confused how's that working with the copy's of Tendrils? You gain protection from the card but not the copied spells, so is it true that the tendrils, casted cannot target the opponent (so I have to target myself) but the copied spells can ('cause of the ability to name new targets for the copies)?

[Troy_Costisick]

My prediction:  This is the first card in SHA to receive either an errata or Oracle ruling.  6 months, tops.   

Peace,

-Troy

[diopter]

We're aware that naming EtW is total crap but I'm confused how's that working with the copy's of Tendrils? You gain protection from the card but not the copied spells, so is it true that the tendrils, casted cannot target the opponent (so I have to target myself) but the copied spells can ('cause of the ability to name new targets for the copies)?

You get protection from the name.

For reference:

Runed Halo
Enchantment
WW
As Runed Halo comes into play, name a card.
You have protection from the chosen name. (You can't be targeted, dealt damage, or enchanted by anything with that name.)

[coyoteuglly]

1st Issue is its  .  2nd issue, decks run multiple win conditions.  Storm Combo runs both warrens and tendrils, name one and they easily get the other.  Flash is in general changing to the Lark kill, name Mogg Fanatic?  Get a X/X feeder on you next turn.  Card is horrid vs. any form of Aggro.  Name Dryad against GAT?  Take a goyf or Tog to the face.  Colossus? Tendrils or X which is whatever the hell they run aside from that.  Its cute but unreliable to cast and too broad to be effective.

Pithing needle is looked at as a legitmate SB answer to Flash or Ichorid.  Why wouldn't this?  In fact this is more versitle because you can also name Virulent Sliver and not take the poison counters from them.  Don't dismiss this card out of hand just yet.  It's major draw back is its  casting cost, not its single target effect.  Maybe a Fish or a R/w TMWA will stock this thing.  We'll have to see.  But it's a good card and will have a place somewhere in Vintage at some point.  Nullifying half the threats in your opponent's deck is always good.

Peace,

-Troy

Its problem is really its single target effect when decks run multiple win conditions.  Flash is using the superior Lark kill in most cases.  In case of slivers, heart sliver still slaps down poison.  Naming warrens doesnt seem to prevent damage from tokens.

Without looking it up my best guess would be you have to name "Goblin" because that is the name of the token.

As for the question is this card good.  I am thoroughly convinced it is not better than Meddling Mage.  Which is probably the card that it seems like it would be fighting for space with.  I can't really see this card being played outside of a Fishesque deck.  With Mage you can name things like Merchant Scroll and it attacks for two.  Or against something like Flash if you have Leyline of the Void in play you can name Chain of Vapor and effectively win the game right there.  Halo only turns off win conditions, which also get turned off by Mage.  Mage also tends to cut things off at the soure and requires less guessing.

Examples:

Mage = Tinker > Halo = DSC or Sundering Titan?
Mage = Flash > Halo Mogg Fanatic or Virulent Sliver?