Omnibob.
Posted By:
Vividice
(1/24/2013 1:59:47 PM)
ALL HAIL OMNIBOB! A Bob for all!
Posted By:
SyntheticDreamer
(1/22/2013 9:55:08 PM)
"I'm the new Bob, kneel!"
Like this card...
Posted By:
shamanix913
(1/22/2013 5:39:04 PM)
Big Bob
Posted By:
Moxxy
(1/22/2013 10:32:39 PM)
the perfect example of a spike card. an efficient, evasive creature that is powerful in the hands of skilled players, but can backfire in the wrong deck or format.
Posted By:
Arachibutyrophobia
(1/22/2013 8:57:41 PM)
Is that you Dark Confidant? Did you do something with your hair?
Posted By:
EnV
(1/22/2013 11:57:25 PM)
TimmyForever, how about talking a break from the gatherer?
Posted By:
flavioal28
(1/23/2013 6:24:38 PM)
The fact that this costs more than Bob makes it a lot worse than Bob imo, for the sole reason that it's not as easy to put a playset in a deck. Also they made it mythic rare which is meh.
Posted By:
pedrodyl
(1/23/2013 12:18:39 PM)
Wizard Vampire. Gaaah. Trying to remember which card this typeline reminds me of. OH! THAT'S RIGHT! Jarad, Golgari Lich-Lord.
Basically, they took a perfectly serviceable Mythic Rare, and slapped creature types on it that make you think "You know, if I wanted to be a Troll, I could play this JUST for the great TRIBAL and that's already good enough."
Wizards of the Coast is going to do something stupid and awful and make a bunch of people sad in the next few months or year or two. They do that, they can't please us every time.
When the next disaster strikes, I'm going to go back and look at Return to Ravnica block to remind myself, 'you know, SOMETIMES they do things RIGHT! :D'
I used to play this game with the Original Ravnica Block too. :3
Screw Magic, I kinda wanta to just play a DnD campaign set on Ravnica o.O xD
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(1/24/2013 7:27:36 AM)
At four mana, he just hits the maximum expected CMC for cards in Jund deck that run Dark Confidant. So, if he's the highest costing creature, you won't be losing any more life.
Life loss. That's the thing about the ability. you can't have to many creatures without some serious deck manipulation (which would probably be Blue/ Black anyway), but your opponents need to as well. Information is just one advantage of this card (along with his impressive body); either he skews all decks towards using lower CMC cards, or he skews it towards you unexpectedly loosing. Sure, flipping an Emrakel is much less likely nowadays, but Gatecrash just has so many tasty new cards that has sufficiently tasteless CMC.
Going further, imagine this-
Phase 1) He is extremely powerful in the format, being a reliable passive win condition.
Phase 2) Burn becomes a common thing/ creature removal becomes very common.
Phase 3) Dimir, Boros and Gruul all suffer as a result (and Golgari... (see all)
Posted By:
Existential
(1/24/2013 9:04:30 AM)