Given the comments on here you'd think this was at least 5/5 if not larger. Seems that few tournament winning decks are playing it, even in a Stamdard environment where you can easily run 12 allied duals or 4 opposing...so I'd say it's fine. Solid creature for its cost, but tough to use outside mono-green.
Posted By:
Nighthawk42
(2/2/2011 1:43:15 PM)
Relax, power creep has already passed from here. It can be caught on Phyrexian Obliterator.
I think that a blank creature without abilities with stats like this is acceptable for Green. But only for Green. That's because the other colors are equipped with their color specific features to deal with it even on turn 2. So there's balance.
Posted By:
AncientTimer
(10/21/2011 5:54:18 AM)
4 power on turn 3... I like the way that sounds.
Posted By:
Totema
(3/27/2012 8:35:40 AM)
Holy &%#@. I'm salivating. So is every other green mage, i'd imagine.
Who designed this? I want to bestow gifts upon them.
Posted By:
Laguz
(1/29/2010 12:34:04 PM)
great with artifacts on the field that gives you shroud, haste, vigilance, etc. very efficient and simple beatdown monster.
Posted By:
Richard_Hawk
(9/17/2010 3:29:50 PM)
Well... thats out of bolting range... I stopped playing around coldsnap and started back up right before Rise of the Eldratzi, so the power creep kicked my butt.
Posted By:
Charmander9
(1/15/2011 8:30:37 PM)
ok, so i used to play magic with this one guy that i'm not friends with anymore, blah blah blah, anyways... he was the WORST magic player i have ever seen!
he also told me to leave his house because he had dropped a Leatherback Baloth, giant growth, giant growth and tried to swing, i told him, dawg he's affected by summon sickens...
so i let him retract his play
next turn (before i had a chance to declare blockers) he drops them again and i chump block
he goes so you take 9 and go to 4.... i went "dude, you are trippin, i blocked"
to which he responded " but my dude is 10/10 (actually it's 9/10)"
i said "show he wear you gained trample....
he told me that i was cheating, because "how could a little @@@@ing bug (thornscape familiar) block my @@@@ing beast and you take NO DAMAGE!)
i looke dat him and said "because you don't have trample...."
"get out....."
i haven't played him or even talked to him since
Posted By:
vomitron6000
(6/17/2010 8:34:30 AM)
@vomit
cool story bro
Posted By:
OutlawD1
(11/20/2010 9:22:47 AM)
i'm so glad I have creatures with death touch for the same mana cost!
Posted By:
fastpond
(1/30/2010 3:31:16 AM)
@jfre81, this is nowhere close to Tarmogoyf :/
as to this, its a nice card dont get me wrong, but the prohibitive land cost in standard, and paradoxically, its low power level in legacy make it rare to see :/.
land cost in standard- need pure green. While this card is good, pure green aggro is not in zendikar standard due to lack of good small drops, and you cant really depend on it :/.
power level in legacy- this card is simply outclassed, afformentioned tarmogoyf is almost always better and more efficient, and decks dont really want more than one vanilla beater (and his mana cost deterrent still isnt anything to scoff at). And in a format where three drops like Knight of the Reliquary, Master of Etherium, etc. exist, it really seems sorta lackluster anyway :/.
Posted By:
stille_nacht
(9/6/2011 4:54:02 PM)