You can make a really excessively mean EDH deck around him. I'm rather astonished to see him getting so much hate. He deserves better.
Posted By:
KokoshoForPresident
(4/27/2012 4:46:58 PM)
This, Eldrazi Con***ion, or some annihilators and your set.
Posted By:
Eldrazi-Worshiper
(5/23/2012 6:08:38 PM)
Until I got FTV: Legends, I never noticed it, but Kresh may be one of the few Magic characters with chest hair.
The funny thing is, devour is underestimated as a mechanic. Objectively, it's card disadvantage (with the major exception of Mycoloth), but the goal of devour is not to have a huge guy, but to utilize death triggers (such as Kresh).
Beastmaster Ascension makes Kresh hilarious.
Posted By:
bay_falconer
(8/23/2012 2:06:22 PM)
Devour is only card disadvantage if you build your deck wrong. A good devour deck should use graveyard recursion and/or token generation. Kresh works just fine without Devour if you pack enough 187 monsters like Fleshbag Marauder and Shriekmaw, or one-sided wraths like Plague Wind and Disaster Radius.
Posted By:
Earthdawn
(9/21/2012 9:46:37 AM)
How would this card interact with Death's Shadow? Say you are at 20 life would Kresh just get 0/0 since Death's Shadow was 0/0 or would it be +13/13?
Posted By:
tomanybagels
(2/26/2013 2:39:59 PM)
This is rated 3/5? Swiftfoot Boots fixes Kresh's high price (on his head). Nobody ever used Berserk on a fatty before? Stuff dies, this guy will just reap the benefits. Imagine Phyrexian Dreadnought with Kresh out...whether or not you sac the guys to keep the d-nought, it's still +12/+12 for Kresh. Ok ok, simpler: Groundbreaker or Ball Lightning still gets it done. Goblin Welder will trigger his ability if you sac artifact creatures, and speaking of goblins: they get sac'd constantly for stuff...bigger Kresh. Nobody likes Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker?! Yeah...riiiight.
Posted By:
MattLynn
(4/14/2013 5:59:15 PM)
lol, they tried to replace art done by Raymond Swanland, THE FOOLS
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(4/16/2013 8:16:53 AM)
Commander game with everyone but me playing swarm and combo. This guy out (with hexproof enchantment) with some other fatties.
My allied person playing Teysa plays Divine reckoning. I won.
Posted By:
BreadandButter
(6/4/2013 1:07:28 AM)
Just built an EDH deck based on him. I had Dragonlair spider and awakening zone. I had 10 tokens. I had Corpsejack menace out. I played Thromok the insatiable devouring all 10 tokens making him a 200/200. (due to corpsejack menace's ability). My friend thought it would be a good idea to Doomblade Thromok and didn't pay attention to the fact that i had kresh out. Kresh then got +200/+200 and i one shotted him. His face was priceless.
Posted By:
LetsMakeAName
(6/8/2013 1:23:04 AM)
@MattLynn
I think this guy is rated low because compared to some of the other legends in the box, he not very impressive. On top of that, a lot of people (myself included) don't like this version of the art as much. He just looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger flailing around.
Posted By:
SAUS3
(6/21/2013 11:40:18 AM)