CardsplainLake-town Mariners // Gone Fishing
[Lake-town Mariners] — Creature — Human Citizen
(Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, unless that player pays .)
[Gone Fishing] — —
two target creatures and/or lands you control, then return them to the battlefield under their owner's control.
Grade D Grade from the win rate
Win rate when drawn 51.9% −4.3 vs average 5,194 games
Win rates and picks
- 51.2% 10,851 games
- Average pick ()
- 9.7
By deck
- Draw Two 52.6% 2,627 games
- Elf Landfall 52.0% 1,489 games
Win rates from , 323,114 games. This card is compared with the set average (56.2%).
Reviews
I've been waiting for a sweet Ghostly reprint for quite some time, but Gone Fishing really isn't what I'm looking for. Still, flickering two creatures should be able to generate some good value and flickering lands can help to trigger abilities, so running out Lake-town Mariners later in the game is also a nice win condition. This is a pretty good card all round, but a bit too expensive to be particularly exciting.
Lake-town Mariners: Have yet to be blown out by this, but in theory you could use it for speed triggers, untapped blockers, surprise enters abilities, or even a draw step Stony-Voiced Goblins.
How to draft it
Roles in each deck
Draw Two Finisher
Both halves are expensive. The creature is a 6-mana 6/5 Human with and 2, and Gone Fishing is a 4-mana that exiles two of your creatures and/or lands and returns them at once, so their enter abilities happen again. A deck built on 2- and has little use for either half.
How to play it
Learn the Draw Two deckAt the end of the opponent's turn, Gone Fishing on Patient Instructor and Long Lake Nuisance gives two recruits, so the second draw triggers your payoffs even on their turn. It needs two targets, and a land counts as one. It can also save two creatures from , and you can still cast the 6/5 afterwards.