
Originally Posted by
cypheon
In a tournament setting, it does not stack up, as you have to pump mana for every 1 pt of health, where as izzet does the fast cheap instants, that copy themselves, better, and faster, for far more damage. Bastion, if you're doing a weenie deck, piles on faster, and without draining your mana. Scavenge simply re-writes the rules entirely when it comes to power-ramping. Cipher + the myriad of unblockables for blue/black is simply breathtaking.
So, yes, in a one on one tournament setting, one mana, for one life, would be nice, if they had about 3 more 1 and 2 cost creatures with the ability. Right now they lack the fast crwature mana dump to get the early game advantage.
edit: used the wrong keyword for golgari, whoops