You can calculate how long it takes to draw X cards by changing the 1 in the numerator to X for whatever value of X you want.Īlso, here are some sweet quotes from the LR guys about Elixir of Immortality: If you’re interested, here’s the formula I used to calculate how many turns it takes to “draw” a single card after using Elixir:
MTG CARD LIKE ELIXIR OF IMMORTALITY FULL
Elixir simply is not a viable value card – you’ll never get a full card out of it by using it fairly. There are some decks that can use Elixir of Immortality, but those decks want it because of specific properties with recycling cards or needing to not deck yourself. Most limited games are over in less than ten turns, so expecting to live ten turns after you use Elixir, and getting a large number of spells into your graveyard before using Elixir is just something that realistically won’t happen. Limited games just don’t go this long with any routine frequency. If we wait until there are only 15 cards left in our library and we shuffle 15 spells from our graveyard into our library we’ll be up a card after ten additional draw steps. replace Elixir and draw an additional card) we have to jump through some pretty big hoops. In order to actually be up a whole card on the deal (i.e.
If we want to get a card back from Elixir after only five turns of waiting we’ll need to shuffle 25 cards back into our library, more spells than were in our deck to start the game! That’s a long time to wait to get our one card back from the Elixir. If we shuffle eight cards into our library with Elixir we’ll increase our spell percentage from 60% to 70%, which means we’ll draw one more spell than expectation after ten turns. Our deck started with 17 lands and 23 spells, all of our spells are reasonable draws, and we’ve drawn spells and lands in proportion to our deck, so our deck now contains 15 spells and 10 lands. We’ve drawn all the lands we need for the game, so any future lands we draw are dead cards. Let’s say it is turn eight and we have 25 cards left in our library. I would be excited to play Elixir if it drew me two cards, but does that ever happen? Let’s find out: There are some decks that might play that life gain spell if it drew a full card, but Renewed Faith was never exciting and I expect this wouldn’t be either. I wouldn’t play a three mana spell that gained me five life and drew me half a card. 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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