Oh i got it, i thought you all meant to exile Sarkhan the Mad and imprint HIM. you were all refering to his second ability to sacrifice the clone shell, which would allow you to put a 5/5 dragon out, PLUS go through the top 4 blah blah blah nm! i wish i could remove my comments. But still, that would take 5 mana to get out Sarkhan the Mad, PLUS 5 mana to get out the clone shell.
I would rather use this guy to get out an Eldrazi.
The deck im working on is mono blue (standard) and has: 4 Everflowing Chalices, a bunch of proliferate helpers, basic blue control, 8 Huge eldrazi, and two of these guys
Posted By:
ToAsTy42o
(4/19/2011 11:25:21 PM)
Didn't anyone ever think of blinking this guy? If you keep blinking it you can rack up a stack of creatures. Then blow him up to play all for free!
Posted By:
jeremywar
(10/18/2012 4:04:45 PM)
Wasn't hot in limited, but I can see it being a lot of fun in the right casual/constructed deck.
Posted By:
ZEvilMustache
(9/26/2010 9:58:17 AM)
I'm interested to see where this goes. Could be incredible, could be mediocre.
Guess it'll depend on the Standard environment once Scars officially kicks in.
I like the card, though. {5} is a steep price to pay for the initial package, but considering something of great value could crack the casing on it, you might get a great return on your investment for a 2/2.
I could see Carnifax Demon being good with this, as well as some of the more expensive {G} beasties that have come out. And the Standard environment will of course have Eldrazi, the Baneslayer, and others.
Posted By:
Lateralis0ne
(9/27/2010 6:43:48 PM)
I like how this basically reads Imprint--Hideaway.
I think this may have applications in constructed. 4/5
Posted By:
LTJZamboni
(9/30/2010 11:16:14 AM)
Hello Reclaim nice to meet you I think me and you are gonna become really good friends soon
Posted By:
__Silence__
(10/6/2010 7:34:05 PM)
Far too likely to pay 5 mana for a vanilla 2/2 and a Memnite so my initial reaction is "meh."
Goods:
2/2 and not a defender. Most artifacts/creatures with this type of ability have 0 power, are defenders, or aren't even creatures period. Start slapping some +power artifacts (Darksteel Axe / Ogre's Cleaver) on this to force your opponent to block it. If you know there's something sweet underneath.
Pulls the card from the top 4 of the library as opposed to your hand. Summoner's Egg pulls a card out of your hand, but this doesn't give you card disadvantage if it gets exiled instead of killed.
Bads:
2/2 and not a defender. Let's face it, they might shake a bit at the fear of what's underneath, but they're not gonna be in a rush to kill a 2/2. Unless you've hit them before they'll have 10 turns to get any kind of threat out.
Pulls the card from the top 4 of the library as opposed to your hand. Who... (see all)
Posted By:
TheKeiser
(10/16/2010 10:33:53 PM)
I have a quetion
if i imprint a icroclaw rats on to this card, than sacrifice this to throne of geth would the rats come in to play then ploiferant. i this so because i sac the clone cause in the poliferate to go on the stack then the clone would go to the graveyard causeing the rats to come in to play then the ploiferate would happen.
( and yes this happen to me at the prerlease)
Posted By:
klieb
(10/18/2010 12:03:08 PM)
essentially two cards for the price of... two. A 2/2 for 5 is really kinda meh, but if you copy a good card you can speed the game up nicely.
Posted By:
NARFNra
(10/30/2010 8:51:26 AM)
I use this in my Eldrazi deck. I also have two Sarkhan the Mads, which works in my favor a lot. This guy is usually a bit of a risk at five mana, but in a deck that can make lots of mana it's a decent potential accelerator.
Posted By:
SleetFox
(11/2/2010 3:46:10 PM)