Foresight
This combo is like Squadron Hawk on steroids. It's puts copies of Misthollow Griffin in exile where you can cast them at your leisure, and where they are totally immune to any sort of discard strategy. Someone counters it when you cast it, or kills it after it enters play, just use some of the stupidly cheap artifacts or creatures that exile cards from a target graveyard for little to no cost like Tormod's Crypt or Relic of Progenitus.
Add to this the fact it basically makes Force of Will a free counterspell to be abused with Snapcaster Mage, and it's a cantrip! I don't know what's worse: being beat to death with a Tarmogoyf or a Snapcaster Mage.
Posted By:
nirvava
(5/14/2012 6:12:34 PM)
This card isn't "broken", but there's strong potential. Moorland Haunt + Misthollow Griffin allows you to create 1/1 and 3/3 fliers throughout the game. Individually, these little guys are nothing to brag about. However, unless your opponent is packing Ghost Quarter, it's difficult to disrupt this recurring fliers combo, and left unchecked, those little bodies can add up to something intimidating.
Posted By:
LordZogar
(5/16/2012 10:02:13 AM)
When I started playing magic I went around to a friends house where there were boxes and boxes of older card (4th edition onwards) I was looking through the cards and stumbled onto Griffin Canyon and Zuberi, Golden Feather I swore that day to make an absolute beast of Griffin deck. 10 years on, we finally get a playable Griff other than Azorius First-Wing. One day wizards, one day my dream will come true... Keep up the Griffin love
Posted By:
TheManakinTransfer
(6/13/2012 4:24:46 PM)
I feel that this is one of the worst mythic rares ever, if it DID something when it came back in or if it was uncommon it would be good.
Posted By:
Enchurito.
(7/9/2012 3:38:58 PM)
youre all missing the point of it being bland its the same reason why rockslide elemental costed 7 for a 4/3 double strike in case it has some interaction they missed they make the first one not that undercosted
this one will probably be the only one to do this and i love it a bunch of them would destroy the flavor of it and i love the things you can do with this most of them have been listed here before me but dont forget planar void gravestorm and web of inertia
it had to be mythic its a unique effect it had to be meh powered in case it can do something better than being pitched to fow or grabed with foresight its what it had to be to have this effect
Posted By:
midgit_
(7/30/2012 3:13:55 AM)
@Enchurito. This isn't even the worst mythic in the same set. Descent into Madness gets that nod for worst Mythic Rare in AVR even over Misthollow Griffin. I do feel that it is underpowered, but I've seen casuals make something out of this card. Moorland Haunt especially. I'm still waiting for someone to make a deck where they can tap 13 mana, and cast Worldfire and then Misthollow Griffin. LOL. To be honest, I'd love this card a lot more if it had Flash so you can do some shenanigans. Oh well, can't win them all. Only an okay card in my opinion but you never know what will show up in future sets that has synergy with this. Whatever card may look like trash today can be treasure tomorrow.
Posted By:
ericsweb
(8/1/2012 10:14:03 AM)
Commandeer, Snapback, Disrupting Shoal, et al. just found a new buddy.
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(8/18/2012 6:43:27 PM)
@ Enchantment_Removal
'Before then, a player could use the wish cycle from Judgement or Research to reclaim removed cards. But not anymore.'
Actually no they couldn't, despite it's name the 'removed-from-game zone' was still in fact a zone in the game, meaning that they were NOT 'outside the game'. This was one of the main reasons they renamed it to exile.
Posted By:
DaJoshMaster
(9/2/2012 3:22:15 PM)
Could be cool with Seance? Turns the Griffin into a Phoenix?
Posted By:
alphagprime
(9/17/2012 10:03:33 AM)
Holistic Wisdom.
Posted By:
Kelptic183
(9/19/2012 9:15:15 PM)