While extra damage and life gain can sometimes be valuable, this card doesnt offer anything that isnt readily available to most decks based around equipment
I understand that long, borderline medical effect text is necessary in a game where the only keyword is Piercing Battle Damage and small syntactical differences become meta-defining, but it shouldnt come at the cost of good art, said Gunkan Suship Shari, a level 4 vanilla beatstick with no effect and 116 words of flavor text
They massively warped the format for the brief window they were legal, and even though Faithless Looting is now banned, it might be even easier to fill your graveyard in Modern today
Thats a real shame, because this 2-color deck is padded out with the usual Evolving Wilds/Terramorphic Expanse, which are just so unnecessary and couldve easily been a Hedge Maze or something similar (surveil even plays into the manifest theme!)
This little guy is the most popular commander in the set, and for good reason
The one-two punch of a lot of creatures and Duskwatch Recruiter grew to some irritating game states in the world of Collected Company
