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Sound the Trumpets

uncommon Instant

. If that spell's was 2 or less, . (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, create a 1/1 white Human Soldier creature .)

C+ Grade from the win rate

Win rate when drawn 56.1% −0.1 vs average 9,128 games

Win rates and picks

54.0% 17,428 games
Average pick ()
9.1

By deck

  • Draw Two 56.7% 5,826 games
  • Elf Landfall 52.3% 1,231 games

Win rates from , 323,114 games. This card is compared with the set average (56.2%).

Reviews

You really don't want to spend your 3-mana spell to answer a 2-mana one, and getting to for doing so is nowhere near enough upside to warrant it. The real question with Sound the Trumpets is whether your deck wants a Cancel, which some will, but many more won't.

Sound the Trumpets: Watch for this when your opponent holds up .

Sound the Trumpets at three mana is an excellent take on the classic "Cancel + upside" trope. Refute was excellent in Foundations, and this is potentially even better than that. If your opponent doesn't play a cheap spell for you to from, good news: you probably something important. This really is a win-win situation.

How to draft it

Roles in each deck

  • Draw Two Filler

    Treat this 3-mana as a low-priority . It recruits only when the countered spell had 2 or less, and that comes on their turn, so it rarely grows anything.

    How to play it

    Hold up only when nothing better wants the mana, and save it for their or best spell. Countering a for the trades your whole turn for it, so on most turns play creatures instead.

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