This thing rocks in Limited. It's a decent insurance policy AGAINST poison decks. In limited format, poison decks are (must) generally be black, green, maybe with a little bit of blue to proliferate, evade and cantrip. This Trigon slowly, I admit, but surely clears the table against such decks: it kills Plague Stingers, Blackreave Goblins, Blight Mambas, Ichorclaw Myr, Thrummingbirds and Ichor Rats in one blow. Since SOM doesnt offer much artifact removal in BGU, the odds are your Trigon will always be there to give you card advantage. Not a win condition, but absolutely practical. 4/5 for Limited, 2/5 for constructed.
Posted By:
Carnophage_4ever
(11/13/2010 7:34:41 AM)
Trigon of Corruption vs. Trygon Predator. A battle to the gristly death.
Not really...
Posted By:
KikiJikiTiki
(12/6/2010 9:55:55 PM)
How the hell is this rated so low? This is backbreaking. Even if you don't have any proliferate shenanigans, it's three weenie-removal bullets in one efficient package. It's a beast versus 90% of the creatures you'll find in a Limited deck *before* you toss in proliferation - at that point, it's absolutely backbreaking.
I got two of them in my NPH prerelease pool today, and they won me the day. I went 3-1 on their backs.
Posted By:
Magnor_Criol
(5/7/2011 8:56:28 PM)
It may not be very fast, but with proliferate from contagion clasp or somesuch, you have an inevitable death engine rolling towards every one of your opponent's creatures. You can proliferate another creature every time you use this.
Posted By:
NoobOfLore
(1/22/2012 2:51:14 PM)
I use this in my proliferate deck against my son and he can never beat me. If I get this card out he will literally groan. I love it.
Posted By:
Speednat
(1/28/2012 1:41:33 AM)
Gives your Undying creatures an extra life!
Posted By:
j_mindfingerpainter
(3/4/2012 6:08:56 AM)
Serrated Arrows is better, since by the time you've placed three counters most competitive games are going to be nearly over (and you'd have to spend two more turns to get another -1/-1 out of this... and chances are you're going to miss at least one opportunity to drop a counter because you don't have the mana...)
Losing to a Homelands card (even one of the better ones) is not a good place to be.
Posted By:
Aquillion
(4/24/2013 6:00:54 AM)
Agree with many here in expressing surprise at the low rating consensus that seems to be forming around the black Trigon. I loved this guy in Scars of Mirrodin limited games! Even in non-black decks it was great. So good with something like Thrummingbird.
And yeah, Serrated Arrows is probably better. But I've definitely taken advantage of the "add a counter" ability in long games.
Posted By:
nullsurface
(7/15/2013 1:20:09 PM)