I think it is not so much supposed to be eating the creature as clamping on to it (after which it drowns), in the manner that real life giant clams do. That would certainly explain why the -1/-1 counters disappear.
Posted By:
SpamBlade
(9/10/2010 9:41:01 PM)
Slow, repeated creature-kill for blue is odd. The fact that it's an oyster doing is even more bizarre. Ah well.
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And so I go, on to another Random Card.
Posted By:
Polychromatic
(3/14/2011 11:16:29 PM)
This is an amazing card.
Great against people who use proliferate for their +1/+1 counters. Proliferate never says you decide what kind of counter, so it stays at what it was. And it's great against those big ones like Arcbound Juggernaut.
Posted By:
asandberge
(7/26/2011 7:22:11 PM)
Ah, bless the English language and our lack of distinction in second-person plurals for making this card so much more powerful for a while in my playgroup.
Posted By:
philsrobeighn
(11/3/2012 6:10:07 AM)
I've always liked this card, as it's repeatable removal: Lock something down, wait for it to die completely, and then lock down something else. But I only just realized that you can use it on your own creatures, too. If one of your creatures has Persisted, or been Withered or Infected or whatever, just tap this guy and untap him on your next untap step: Presto, all of the -1/-1 counters are gone, even though they came from a different source originally.
Posted By:
sonorhC
(2/3/2013 9:57:40 PM)
All-star in my homelands control deck. By all star, I mean it's moderately effective for it's cost and what it does. By moderately effective I mean one of the most cost-effective creatures in homelands. I don't win games.
Posted By:
Mr.Wimples
(10/14/2013 6:35:29 AM)
Should be called "Giant Clam" instead.
The giant clam can produce huge pearls, and was rumored to close its shell on the hands of divers who would attempt to claim those pearls. Since the shell is huge and heavy, those divers would drown, unable to release themselves from the clam's grasp. Those stories are usually dismissed as legends, as in reality the clam actually closes its shell very, very slowly.
Posted By:
Arachnos
(10/29/2013 11:09:34 AM)
the only oyster in the game
Posted By:
Lord_of_phyrexia
(10/30/2013 1:07:26 PM)
Loved this card for blue control decks.
Comboed with creatures like Thalakos Dreamsower and Labyrinth Minotaur because they'd allow me to tap and drown the opponents' creatures at will.
The dreamsower could tap a creature, turn it over to the oyster's tender care, go back next turn and tap another one...
A creature heavy deck would be rendered totally helpless and the other player could only watch while their 7/7 fatty just sat there as my shadow creatures and flyers leisurely shaved off the rest of his hit points.
It was so fun to imitate spluttering and bubbling noises and pantomime helpless thrashing each time a creature drowned just to get a furious reaction.
Posted By:
Zygmus
(2/25/2014 4:05:33 PM)