Your Proper Place is Beneath My Boot Heel: Enthralling Victor

He's... beautiful.

In a field of dragons, walking hangars, and annoying Rhinos, there's one 4 drop that is being overlooked despite the huge returns he can bring. Enthralling Victor (i.e. Vic for my sake) exists in this weird limbo of costing to much for an ability that would be much better, if not busted on a three drop, but not able to compete with similar cards set at rares, Zealous Conscripts and Sower of Temptation, due to his built in limits. However, I believe he is quite capable in the right setting.

Standard as of now is not very friendly to our four drop Adonis. Other four drops are just better. Siege Rhino steps all over him. Thunderbreak Regent is very difficult to deal with.  Vic here just can't hack it in this super mid-rangey world full of bigger fish. What he wants are aggro decks, where he can steal guys consistently and be a tempo breaking finisher high on his deck's curve. Against an unknown metagame, I'd sideboard him, but if your store is littered with Rabblemasters and Piledrivers, here's an example list to put the fear of four drops into your opponent :

4 Enthralling Victor

4 Nantuko Husk

4 Dragon Fodder

4 Hordeling Outburst

4 Collateral Damage

2 Tyramet, the Murder King

4 Lightning Strike

4 Stoke the Flames

3 Kolaghan's Command

3 Zurgo, Bellstriker

2 Mardu Shadowspear

22 Lands

The deck lacks outs vs more grindy decks, but  vs another opposing aggro deck I believe the Combination of Vic and the two other outs Collateral Damage and Nantuko Husk can be a massive swing in tempo, completely swinging the matchup from close to destroyed.

Torch it

Touch it

Try it: Enthralling Victor is very specific in what he wants to do, but he's a great at turning a game around. Give him a chance and I'm certain he'll prove himself.

Own it

Next time we dive through the breach and push through damage with Break through the Line! With a week under my belt I'd love to hear from my readers: are these articles helpful? What can I do to improve? Is there any uncommons you'd like to see here on Uncommon Thoughts? (and yes I'm saving my Force of Will article for a special day.)