I love this card. The flavor aspects and the overall style of Tasbo Tavok was pretty cool in the books, even if she wasn't that amazing of a villain.
I played this card against my friend's Kamigawa deck once. He didn't like me that much afterwards. :)
Posted By:
Omniance
(10/13/2009 4:04:52 PM)
I don't play this as my general in EDH; I run it in the deck. With plenty of ways of untapping her, I pretty much make sure nobody else can get a general on the field. People hate it. This one card has single-handedly changed the meta-game in my area so much, at least 5 cards in every deck around here is specifically there to take this card out as quickly as possible. Some people outright refuse to play me if I leave her in the deck lol. It's just so mean.
Posted By:
endersblade
(6/21/2011 9:13:10 PM)
This needs very, very little to be pushed over the edge.
I like cards that are clearly powerful, but not really viable without some kind of actual game plan/support cards.
That mana cost is appropriately quite prohibitive, and if it HADN't been too high for NORMAL Constructed, this would have been broken as DAAAANG in Commander.
So...thanks for the happy accident, Wizards Development team of Invasion block?
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(2/29/2012 9:52:34 AM)
I can't belive no one has thought about the comboing this with Leyline of Singularity. Infact you don't even have to splash blue as long as your geting Leyline of Singularity in your opening hand.
Posted By:
Silverware
(12/4/2009 5:57:57 PM)
@Kirbster:
Gerrard's Hero's Resolve kept him alive long enough to Smite her. She couldn't use her destroy effect because... um... her controller was tapped out.
Implausible, sure, but this is flavor we're talking about. Flavor cares not for card advantage.
Posted By:
Iktomi
(4/27/2011 2:49:54 PM)
@no_body: Tsabo has protection from legendary creatures, so Gerrard's ability wouldn't even be able to target her
@atemu1234: IIRC she was DEFEATED (not killed) in battle by Gerrard, which is why she was executed for her failure by Crovax.
Posted By:
adrian.malacoda
(12/24/2012 12:23:49 AM)
Have her as general in a commander/edh deck.
The bad:
- costs 7 mana while having only 4 toughness
- other people, especially unexperienced players, are scared of her and thus attack you very quickly
- needs some sort of evasion (dragon shadow) and/or haste to be good (dragon breath)
The good:
- a 7 power first striker takes out about anything that blocks or gets blocked
- immune to most abilities of other commanders (visaras killing, rubinia soulsingers stealing etc)
- can't (obviously) be blocked by other commanders (or legends in general) but can on the other hand be a great blocker
- once in play, even prevents other people from playing their legends
Posted By:
majinara
(11/3/2009 10:24:41 AM)
Pity Crovax killed her. Whilst the Praetors were faffing about in Mirrodin she could've single handedly taken the entire plane of Kamigawa.
Posted By:
psychichobo
(12/3/2012 1:45:03 PM)
A real man's EDH general. :D
Posted By:
GoyfIsFatDotDec
(11/11/2008 5:58:48 PM)
@Kirbster:
I know what you mean. However, legend says that prior to Tsabo Tavoc getting beaten by Gerrard Capashen, good boy-gone-bad Karn, Silver Golem tore several of her limbs off, weakening her... But then, that doesn't make any sense either, because Karn, Silver Golem reads:
Whenever Karn, Silver Golem blocks or becomes blocked, it gets -4/+4 until end of turn.
So that would have left Karn as a 0/1, and Tsabo intact as a 7/4. But even that's not the case, as Tsabo has Protection from Legends, and two ways of killing Karn: Either in one fell swoop (
, tap) or in battle (First strike). So she really should have won that fight. In fact, Phyrexia should have won the war. Phyrexia FTW. That is all.
Posted By:
SubstantiaNigra
(4/4/2013 6:21:56 AM)