WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS IT WHAT IS IT WHAT IS IT!...
OH GOD NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAAH! NOT THE BEES!
Posted By:
Shadoflaam
(10/25/2011 6:12:03 PM)
Uggghhhhhhh.
In red, this would be considered beyond worthless. Its only POSSIBLE redeeming factor is being green, a color with almost no spells of this type. Not .5 because it could have some use, but let's say a good solid 1.
Posted By:
ratchet1215
(8/27/2009 10:08:26 AM)
Heh, Phil Foglio art is always worth a chuckle!
Not much to be said for this card - it's not efficient burn by red's standards, but green really doesn't get many direct damage effects like this, so I think it's costed well. Pretty much all of the spells in this vein have the same flavour - Unyaro Bee Sting is functionally identical to this one, and was the first of its kind; since then, they have added Unyaro Bees as another Time Spiral "nod to the past", and very recently Hornet Sting has been added to the list.
A dedicated theme-deck builder probably has enough cards to make an actual theme deck for bees, wasps and hornets. How effective such a deck would be is... questionable... but it would be cool to see!
Posted By:
Leshrac_Nightwalker
(12/1/2010 7:33:42 AM)
green is just not the color made for burn spells^^
but they could have made it useful, though.
Posted By:
Mode
(1/2/2009 3:56:29 PM)
Oh, Phil Foglio and your Killer Bees...
Posted By:
TDL
(10/29/2010 6:02:42 PM)
It's still burn for mono-green, which is nothing to be scoffed at.
Posted By:
nammertime
(7/8/2010 9:17:35 AM)
try moonglove extract for pseudo-instant speed damage at 1 less mana. Or brittle effigy for straight up creature killing.
Still, a very silly card. Perhaps the bee stinging flavor should return, but as a red/green hybrid?
Posted By:
allmighty_abacus
(9/16/2010 10:00:56 AM)
Green burn and creature removal is green creature removal. Not a one star, but not awesome either. Still an OK card especially for Colored Life or Star
Posted By:
Shoe2
(12/9/2010 9:59:28 PM)
Had to give this 5/5 because Unyaro Bee Sting is equivalent and rated higher. This is rated low just because it's a Portal card.
Posted By:
tavaritz
(7/12/2011 1:49:53 PM)
I find it amusing that this does less damage than Hornet Sting. I'd think that wold hurt more...
Posted By:
JL2736
(5/3/2012 12:02:43 PM)