Nice card, putting in my fungus deck when it arrives, just keep on putting sapprolings ouut for free until you run out of creatures to tap, which considering the fact that there are four mycoloths, will never happen.
My deck can get over 5000 tokens out at once.
Posted By:
coloo
(3/20/2010 3:18:16 PM)
If you have Doubling Season and Ashnod's Altar in play, you can generate infinite saprolings.
Cast Sprout Swarm, then tap your two saprolings to pay for 1 G and 1 colorless of the convoke cost. Then, sacrifice both tokens to Ashnod's Altar for 4 colorless. Use 3 of those colorless to pay for the buyback cost and cast it again. You now have 2 saprolings in play and 1 colorless mana in your mana pool. After a few more repetitions of this, you will have 4 colorless mana in your mana pool.
Now, cast Sprout Swarm again for 2 saproling tokens. This time, tap 1 saproling token to convoke for 1 G and use your 4 colorless mana to pay for the rest of the casting cost and the buyback cost. Now, you have 4 saprolings in play.
Rinse and repeat into infinity.
Posted By:
Guest475239231
(9/4/2010 8:25:31 AM)
I fail to see the standalone value of this card. Outside of combos, all you'll end up doing is paying {4}{G} for 1 Saproling and the ability to play it again. With Convoke, you can turn that into "Tap five creatures: Put a 1/1 green saproling creature token into play." and the ability to play it again.
That's just ...bad.
Posted By:
HeartbreakerStudios
(8/20/2012 9:58:23 PM)
This is my favorite card in Magic: The Gathering. It is awesome! I have a saproling deck built entirely around 4 of these. After I get 5-10 saprolings in play (which is anywhere between 2 and 5 turns), it's pretty much the end of the world as you know it. And guess what, you can't attack me.
Edit: If I'm reading the rules properly, you can use convoke even if the creatures have summoning sickness, correct? If so, DEFINITELY favorite card in the game.
Edit: To the guest who posted on 9/4/2010, you can't do that. If you put two saprolings into play from Sprout Swarm, then that means you have payed for the casting cost of the card and let the card resolve, and you can't do things in response to it being cast that would allow you to pay the buyback cost because the spell has already resolved and is already in your graveyard.
Posted By:
Beekhead
(9/16/2010 1:35:01 AM)
This, Fervor, and two Doubling Seasons or Parallel Lives makes up an infinite Saproling Combo. You tap 5 saps to make 8 that can then tap again to make more.
Posted By:
RunedServitor
(1/21/2012 5:54:33 AM)
All the elements of this card make it what it is. Taking away any one aspect would ruin it.
If it wasn't instant, you couldn't tap out (including tapping out your creatures) on your opponents' end step to cast it, which is the only feasible time to tap a bunch of your guys.
If it didn't make a token it wouldn't lead to the steady snowballing of guys.
If it didn't convoke it would also ruin both of the above moves.
Lastly, if it didn't have buyback you couldn't do it again and again and again for incremental advantage.
Brilliant design.
Posted By:
djflo
(3/31/2012 6:44:01 AM)
All costs are paid for this card at the exact same time. Convoke is no different. So no, you can't use Eldrazi Spawn tokens to reduce the cost of this card by {2}.
Posted By:
MithosFall
(5/8/2012 1:30:05 PM)
Looks interesting, but I think I'll pass
2/5 Stars
Posted By:
Hunter06
(11/26/2012 2:41:22 PM)
Limited bomb. Sprout Swarm is an absolute house in my Peasant cube, and is difficult to beat. It helps stall out the board, which gives you ample time to amass an army of 1/1's... Easily 1st-pickable...
I also rather enjoy the art for Sprout Swarm, and the design brilliance of using convoke and buyback on an instant makes this card unique and interesting... 5/5 for strength in limited, art, and general awesomeness...
Posted By:
Saraneth888
(12/9/2012 12:23:28 PM)
RuinedServitor, you don't even need Fervor for that combo. This doesn't use the tap symbol, so it's not dependent on summoning sickness. Just tap them and go!
Posted By:
Totema
(1/2/2013 12:21:49 PM)