Essence of the Wild (Innistrad) - Community - Gatherer

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Eh, peolpe? What's a Mycoloth?

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Posted By: S-r-ex (1/2/2012 6:00:15 AM)

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absolutely brutal, this card will love the token mini-theme of the block, and once you have copied a creature it will almost require a board wipe to eliminate the infestation. as infemox10 pointed out, sever the bloodline seems to be tailor made to fight this card.

unfortunately, what i do not like is that any creature that comes into play as a copy of him no longer have their own abilities or p/t. I can foresee a situation where you need to get a utility creature out to defeat some enchantment or artifact whatever and you get a 6/6 vanilla, who is currently useless in the face of said obstacle. Very nice and likely a game ender, but there is a well-hidden downside to this.

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Posted By: jsttu (1/9/2012 4:25:59 AM)

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Say I had this out and I played a Dryad Arbor, making the Arbor a 6/6 Essence of the Wild. Is it still a land? And if not, would I be able to play a land for the turn since I technically already played my land?

Thanks in advance!

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Posted By: ChumleyX (1/20/2012 11:41:56 AM)

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Can you spell B.R.O.K.E.N.?

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Posted By: InkandNotes (1/28/2012 9:00:59 PM)

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Strangest combo ever: This and Cryptoplasm
ENDLESS Shapeshifting

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Posted By: kikon99 (2/1/2012 7:24:31 PM)

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With mimic vat or seance, would the tokens just become this guy, and never go away? Thanks! What about the static ability on mimic vat, will the creature still get haste?

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Posted By: MindEcho (2/21/2012 10:47:11 AM)

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In Soviet Innistrad, forest cuts down you!....... and then turns you into itself. wat

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Posted By: Goatllama (3/7/2012 8:47:21 PM)

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The interesting thing about this is that is doesn't mess with the creatures that are already on the battlefield. Thus you can play creature mana generators at will in the same deck. You can maybe get away with 12 of them (if you get three in your opening hand, you can cast this turn 3). They accelerate you to 6, and future elves become 6/6s for Green

. Not bad. After you have a few copies pumped out, it becomes difficult to mess with this short of taking out the whole board.

Wurmcalling makes you 6/6s repeatably for just

, and Sprout Swarm does it for

or less at instant speed. Orochi Hatchery could be scary too.

But no trample? Use the only instant that gives all your creatures trample: Stampede

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Posted By: kiseki (3/19/2012 6:22:44 PM)

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Saproling Burst does not affect the saprolings cuz they become copies of "Essence". Therefore their power and toughness are not equal to the amount of fade counters on Saproling Burst. They have Essence of the Wild's power and toughness. I wanna know if the card that becomes the copy loses all abilities because Essence of the Wild does not have them. Ex. I play Devoted Druid does it become a 6/6 Essence with both of it's abilities

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Posted By: Saproling_King (3/20/2012 6:09:16 PM)

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Two questions

1) When Essence of the Wild dies do the other creatures revert back to their real form or stay the same? If they stay the same then 2) When a creature enters the battlefield as a copy does it get the ability also?

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Posted By: Daedylus (4/6/2012 4:19:10 PM)

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