best card in its cycle.
Posted By:
Hibron
(5/11/2010 7:28:45 AM)
worst then Lightning Greaves
Posted By:
BryanFR
(9/20/2009 6:06:19 PM)
I love on-board tricks. I loved the Lorwyn limited environment, and I hadn't quite realised that was part of why, but I'm sure it was. I do particularly like it when a card can grant shroud/protection at instant speed, but not too easily. Leonin Shikari + Lightning Greaves is too easy (once you get the cards out) - it just becomes impossible to target anything. But {U}{U} is a sensible cost for it: the player can't do it very much, especially if blue isn't their only colour, so the opponent still has a hope of managing to target things sometimes. I like Neurok Stealthsuit and still use it in my decks from time to time.
Posted By:
alextfish
(6/17/2011 2:48:04 AM)
Counterspell as an equipment. Nice.
Posted By:
bay_falconer
(6/17/2011 1:28:33 PM)
@Polkovnik_Skyfox: the correct quote is "Stupid sexy Flanders." Homer never says "Damn Flanders.", he says "Stupid Flanders."
Posted By:
sdfkjgh
(6/17/2011 8:22:03 PM)
"As anyone that has played a fair bit of Scars sealed deck recently can attest to, a huge number of purely colorless cards can be daunting to evaluate."
Huh? I don't get this, Aaron. When worrying about whether you'll have the colors to cast spells is taken out of the equation, I find it much easier to eval a sealed pool. Just compare CMC to power/tough and effectiveness and look at your curve. Where I find the challenge in evaluating Scars sealed pools is deciding whether I have what it takes to go Infect, and if not, whether I have sufficiently aggressive creatures to try to be the beatdown against non-Infect strategies or whether I need to go a controlling route (ugh).
As for Lorwyn Block, that was one of my favorite blocks for Limited games and it was *because* of the on-board tricks - it was a real skill-tester and often my opponents were found wanting. Later formats that lacked such a density of on-board tricks are more strictly about "did you maintain discipline during dr... (see all)
Posted By:
ProfN
(6/19/2011 6:53:45 PM)
Good card. Not the best in the cycle (that would obviously be Cranial Plating) but shroud is very nice, and instant speed shroud makes it comparable to Lightning Greaves.
Posted By:
JFM2796
(7/25/2011 3:42:15 PM)
Obviously the card is fantastic, and colored abilities on artifacts were a big deal at the time.
However I always lol when I imagine anyone (anything) other than an attractive Neurok woman wearing this
Posted By:
axiobeta
(7/31/2011 9:54:13 PM)
She's hot. 5/5
Posted By:
Geishur
(9/13/2011 2:21:01 PM)
At least 2 people in comments compared this to Cranial Plating and mentioned that Cranial Plating is obviously superior to Neurok Stealthsuit.
Honestly I disagree. Both equipements are doing principially differend things and hardly can be compared. And even if plating is doing things that will be more appreciated in majority of players, I would still disagree. In my opinion, because of big principial difference between those two cards, evaluating them strongly depends on type of player.
At example plating is really useful only in artifact decks, but stealthsuit could fit well to deck where it is the only artifact. What would plating do in such deck? Not much. Also imagine stealthsuit in EDH deck where number of copies is limited to 1. With this card, player has virtually unlimited number of copies of counters. Only thing he has to care about is enough mana.
In my opinion superiority of plating over stealthsuit is definitely not obvious. It always depends ... (see all)
Posted By:
spirit_of_blue
(3/27/2012 11:03:34 PM)