@DrPompousMD Actually, one of the perks of having haste is that you can drop a creature with high power and attack unhindered while your opponent has all his/her creatures tapped. So although the casting cost and regenerate are largely "mutually exclusive" as you say, the haste really isn't if you play your cards right. And yes, I know he might die to Doom Blade yadda yadda, but that's the chance you have to take with almost all creatures.
How this card is ideally played: You cast him and get in 5 damage because your opponent didn't see him coming and is all tapped out in creatures. You get lucky because it is late game and your opponent doesn't have any removal left in hand either. If the opponent doesn't top-deck some removal then Eron gets stompy again next turn especially if you draw something like Rancor. Wow -> Eron isn't so bad after all. Heck, if he has Rancor on him and you get the trample damage through you could cast a nice burn spell followed b... (see all)
Posted By:
Phelplan
(8/18/2013 8:49:16 AM)
One of the very few fringe playable cards from Homelands.
What Eron lacks in playability (thank you very much creature creep), he makes up in style.
Posted By:
HairlessThoctar
(7/19/2010 8:53:20 PM)
Homelands has a lot of overlooked cards and this is one of it's better ones. An alternative to Ball Lightning in that it regenerates without end of turn burial (literally the opposite). He is better now that he can be supported with cards like Seething Song than he used to be. This card has what Ball Lightning does not, at least. As someone else has said regenerating makes up for lack of trample in most cases. He can just mow through dudes. Try him out and you'll see he is more effective than he looks. He costs more than Ball Lightning because he is better.
Posted By:
Hovercraft
(10/4/2009 3:09:10 PM)
splash red in your Relentless Rats deck for him.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(6/28/2010 12:45:33 AM)
Skizzik makes Eron cry.
Posted By:
Digit
(10/12/2009 7:25:11 PM)
one M and two colorless regenerate would have been great
Posted By:
intothevoid
(2/1/2011 1:52:29 PM)
I'm digging those eyes
Posted By:
Crag-Hack
(8/22/2011 11:09:28 PM)
why did they reprint him but not Chandler or Joven?
Posted By:
languill
(10/31/2011 3:32:13 AM)
He practically screams "Please Incinerate me!"
But I still have to give him 5/5 for being one of the few good cards in Homelands, and just oozing with style.
Posted By:
JasonPaul601
(12/13/2012 8:27:38 PM)
With a name like that, I'm sure he's popular with the ladies.
Posted By:
EGarrett01
(1/27/2013 2:08:37 PM)