After journeying through some of the most powerful blue spells ever printed, one thing is clear - blue deserves its reputation as the most dominant control color in Magic
In practice, getting such a swathe of effects at two mana is really nice
Im not losing hope, though
TCGplayer lists John Silver card number 82/204 at a market value of $9.11 USD at the time of writing
You run some flicker which is one of whites best forms of card advantage and you end up with a board of Ally tokens
Even without the attack trigger I would love this, but hating on the graveyard and getting a Food makes this thing even more amazing Sure, a isnt always going to get through, but this will drain 2 life any time it attacks, so your opponent will still usually need to alter how they are playing to account for it, and that gives you some pretty real value