This card isn't bad in principle, but I wonder what goal it accomplishes in practice. If you want direct damage, green already has trample and super trample. If you want something to block flying, are you really going to leave all your forests untapped every turn so that you'll be ready to pump?
Now as a combo with Seedborn Muse or something I can see it working just fine. But without some kind of synergy, it seems to fail at achieving a goal very directly.
Posted By:
james2c19v
(2/21/2012 1:50:57 PM)
Okay, what the heck? This card breaks all kinds of color pie. Flying is blue/white, "Shade" is black, and burn is red! These bees stole something from every other color!! I think that the only thing more confusing than why they printed this card is why it wasn't in Planar Chaos.
Posted By:
Selez
(7/26/2010 10:40:03 PM)
Why is this so high rated? Okay it does 2 damage in green. For SEVEN mana. SEVEN. That's enough for a 4/5 rating?
Is this the storm crow troll thing all over?
Posted By:
Lifegainwithbite
(4/5/2013 9:31:24 AM)
Comboes with Ormst. :D
don't know what Ormst is?
OMRSTPLRLCNSWMTCTHTALCNEE was too long for me and unpronounceable. :P
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(1/19/2013 10:06:12 AM)
Bees. My God.
-Batman
Posted By:
Pigfish99
(5/24/2012 10:11:59 PM)
DIRECT DAMAGE IN GREEN
HERESY!
Posted By:
Arachnos
(8/27/2012 11:15:06 PM)
So, my friends and I did a Time Spiral draft recently, cracked open my third pack, and this was a snap pick for me. Not because I was going to use it in my draft deck, but because I wanted this in rare binder ASAP in my "no trades" section. Best creature ever.
Posted By:
lilwolf2005
(12/16/2012 6:30:57 PM)
Bear Umbra This card is a key player in my Bees deck. With both Killer Bees and this baby plus some Green Sun's Zenith it is quite reliable. Go with Overgrowth, Arbor Elves and whatnot it can be blisteringly fast. Turn one forest elf, turn two, forest overgrowth, turn three bees, llanowar druid and some mana to gutteral response/ranger's guile to protect it. Turn four win. The best part is it is all quite replicable, not a wacky magical christmas land sort of thing.
Posted By:
Stinga
(12/17/2012 1:36:51 PM)
Shade ability
In green
On a flyer
I think this could probably hit someone for about a billion on turn 0 (or more realistically, 7-9 on t4.)
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(6/18/2013 8:36:22 AM)
With the new devotion mechanic in Theros, this card is going to be so incredibly viable in modern.
Posted By:
SystemSCSnake
(9/16/2013 9:33:31 PM)