Skaab ruinator is a much improved version of this to work with - huge flying creature for 1UU with a unique drawback, except Ruinator's condition is much easier to build around and have an actual deck rather than a pile of cards that fails when you don't draw Dormant Gomazoa or it gets killed. Also, Ruinator has an additional ability.
Posted By:
Henrietta
(11/6/2011 7:27:58 AM)
Would be effective against burn decks, I suppose. How good it is otherwise depends on whether cards like Divination and Ponder can untap it, but I'm pretty sure they can't.
Posted By:
SocialExperiment
(4/18/2010 1:02:21 PM)
Crab Umbra, lol. I love the thought of giving my Jellyfish crabs.
Posted By:
Eved
(5/31/2010 9:23:19 PM)
@Pramxnim:
Make that a Crab Umbra and a Splinter Twin. Now THAT's my style of gameplay.
Posted By:
lukemol
(4/18/2010 1:32:22 PM)
just a question: every time it gets tapped, it won't untap during your next untap phase? or does that effect only happen once?
Posted By:
Telecaster
(4/23/2010 10:04:49 AM)
Reckless Scholar
Posted By:
Guntz1092
(4/18/2010 1:51:29 PM)
Fairly decent with unbender tine, but I still don't see it breaking any games or winning you any for that matter. Creatures with drawbacks are just.. well.. outdated. They are necessary to keep the game power levels down, but needing something else just to have your creature work weakens it. Your better off playing a 3/3 that you can actually attack with, than a 5/5 you can't use. Even if there is some way to untap it repeatedly, your draining mana into it to keep it that way that you could spend on something else. Even unbender tine, which comes only a turn later and untaps for free, still requires you to at least draw the card and keep it in play, assuming the creature itself doesn't die somehow.
It's fun for combo applications, but realistically won't see much play.. if you really want to try it in standard could go crab umbra.
Oh and this does -not- work with splinter twin.. splinter twin requires you to tap the creature.
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(4/21/2010 10:33:41 PM)
To quote one of my favorite video game characters of all time: "It's a big, stupid jellyfish!"
Posted By:
Treima
(5/22/2010 3:09:26 PM)
Use Forked Bolt and hit yourself for 1 and something else for 1 then this untaps
Posted By:
1919
(6/12/2010 6:35:53 AM)
The way I see it, it's a way to keep players from casting spells on you. If they do, they have a 5/5 jelly coming at their face. And this for 3 mana? To me, that's not bad at all...4/5
Posted By:
IRHennessy
(6/26/2010 10:56:41 AM)