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Shaku 2.0: Lyra the Sunshard is good.

When Lyra the Sunshard was revealed he (she?) was written off by pretty much everyone. I didn't think the card looked especially impressive myself. But good God, after playing a Control Priest deck featuring him (her?) for the last few hours, my early thoughts are that this card is fantastic.

While it's true that Priest has many poor or situational spells in its repertoire, when you generate 3 or 4 of them per Lyra turn, they end up coming together to be a very useful addition to your deck. It must be said that Lyra's use is amplified heavily by Radiant Elemental. It's really necessary to have both cards on the board for Lyra to go off, but this isn't a very hard board state to set up. I've had about 5 or 6 games today in which playing Lyra and casting a bunch of 1-to-2 mana spells has completely turned the game in my favor.

I could be speaking prematurely and I might be overly excited about this card, but right now I'm reminded of how people initially thought Shaku the Collector was a trash-tier card and he turned out to be quite useful. When Mike Donais made that comment that he thought the Priest legendary might be "too good" maybe he wasn't wrong?

Update

Firebat: "Card's sick"

'Nuff Said!!

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