Thread by @JasonILTG

First thread today (there will be two to make up for the lack of one yesterday) is a short thread about Plumb the Forbidden. 1/x

ALSA of 6.98 in Bo3. Looks like the Card Evaluation Metagame graph has it as not changing much on average, but with a lot of variation up and down for it and a lot of other black uncommons. Not sure exactly what to make of that. 2/x

At a baseline, Plumb can function similar to Village Rites: you can use it to recycle useless creatures, as a sac outlet, or in response to removal. Evaluating it this way, it looks pretty bad, as it costs 1 more mana and 2 more life. 3/x

But even a bad Village Rites is pretty good in Witherbloom, where sacrificing pests can be very good. And that's only the baseline; Plumb has a *lot* of upside. First of all, you can cycle it without sacrificing anything, meaning it's never truly dead in your hand. 4/x

But, if you know anything about how it's being played in constructed, you know just how powerful Plumb can be. The key is that it can act as a mass sac outlet, and turn all of your creatures into magecraft triggers. 5/x

You can sacrifice a bunch of pests to grow your Blood Researchers. Witherbloom Pledgemage and Apprentice double the lifegain, and Apprentice by itself can easily finish off your opponent with Plumb. 6/x

The nuttiest combos are with Professor Onyx at mythic and Sedgemoor Witch at rare. The former is just an Apprentice on steroids, while the latter makes a pest for every creature you sacrificed, plus one for the original copy. 7/x

There's also combos outside of Witherbloom (basically anything with a good repeatable magecraft trigger), but the baseline of sacrificing pests is less likely to come together outside of Witherbloom. 8/x

This adds up to a card that I'm playing in most of my Witherbloom decks, as a card that serves as a good part of a pest synergy package while having high upside with some combos. And outside Witherbloom, as long as I have Hunts and a Pest Summoning I'm probably playing Plumb. 9/x

Conclusion: Plumb the Forbidden is decent even as a more expensive Village Rites, but it has a ton of upside with sacrificing pests and triggering magecraft, making it a very powerful I'm playing in almost all Witherbloom decks. 10/10

Here's a trophy deck where Plumb was one of the best synergy cards: tons of pests, including Tend the Pests, and great combos with two Apprentices, one Witch, and Extus.
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