Innistrad Episode 4: A New Hope

"All is not lost in the darkness. There must be someone who will teach, who will train us to overcome our adversaries, and allow us to drift into the restful sleep"


"I think I can help with that"

Now here is a powerful card. Probably the most exciting card spoiled thus far. Do not underestimate this card for it absurdly powerful. The deck you would think of straight away would I think be White Weenie.

23 Plains
3 Dismember
2 Sword of War and Peace
3 Inquisitor Exarch
4 Mentor of the Meek
4 Hero of Bladehold
1 Oblivion Ring
4 Elite Vanguard
4 Stormfront Pegasus
2 Signal Pest
2 Mirran Crusader
4 Leonin Skyhunter

4 Gideon's Lawkeeper

Something like this, I think might be a powerful and viable deck. Now notice without the Mentor, there is no inherent problem with this deck....Card advantage. The hero provides its own mini army when attacking but aside from that you have creatures. If you don't draw enough during you draw steps then you lose. If you draw to many and throw them all on the board, then you are asking to get blown out by Day of Judgment.

Mentor of the Meek gives this deck a draw engine. It allows you to play your Exarch's, Pest's, and Skyhunter's with the additional text 

"When ~ enter the battlefield you may pay 1. If you do draw a card"

That is a very powerful ability, and white weenie is not the only deck it could go in. Check these bad boys out

G/W Beatdown

4 Jade Mage
4 Skinshifter
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Birds of Paradise
2 Dismember
4 Sword of War and Peace
4 Mentor of the Meek
3 Oblivion Ring
4 Sunpetal Grove
1 Acidic Slime
4 Mirran Crusader
3 Hero of Bladehold
4 Razorverge Thicket
4 Sunpetal Groves
9 Forest
6 Plains
And it is not only Standard that gets to have all the fun.
G/W Elves
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Nettle Sentinel
2 Regal Force
4 Mentor of the Meek
2 Elvish Archdruid
4 Green Sun's Zenith
4 Heritage Druid
1 Tangleroot
2 Essence Warden
3 Cloudstone Curio
1 Emrakul, the Aeons Torn
2 Ranger of Eos
4 Elvish Visionary
4 Arbor Elf
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Verdant Catacombs
7 Forest
1 Dryad Arbor
2 Temple Gardens
1 Horizon Canopy
This deck uses Mentor as a pseudo Glimpse of nature, and doesn't have any problems paying the cost because of the large amount of mana created. Perhaps it will take a little more thinking when going off, but it is something I think a competent player will have no problems with.
We have just scratched the surface with this cards usage and I expect it to be a player in the upcoming format. 
I will leave you this week think about this cards interaction with Reveillark.
Till Next Time..
P.S. Credit goes to Gavin Verhey for the decklists. read his article which goes a little more in depth into the card at
http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/standard/22679_Innistrad_Preview_Mentor_of_the_Meek.html