I hope they make a Muraganda expansion someday. I don't know how the mechanics would work -- "vanilla matters" isn't a very exciting theme, after all -- but the setting has some really awesome flavor. Prehistoric fantasy is made of win.
For anyone who cares, the two other cards from Muraganda are Imperiosaur and The Mimeoplasm. The Mimeoplasm's character bio, found in his Commander deck, also provides some cool info about the plane:
"Little is known about the bizarre entity that crawls the world of Muraganda. The fang druids call it the Mimeoplasm, as it absorbs the traits of anything it engulfs. The saurid warriors of the south seek out the Mimeoplasm wherever it roams, believing it to be the key to a mysterious afterlife, hoping to see in it traces of their fallen loved ones. The elves of the tropics believe it to be part of nature's cycle, a way to channel death back into life. The scarwitches hiss when it approaches, seeing it as the ulti... (see all)
Posted By:
wstonefi
(10/27/2011 6:18:58 PM)
any kind of ability at all will void this.
anything in the text box besides flavor text voids this. absolutely anything, including CDA
Posted By:
greg2367
(8/15/2010 12:01:12 AM)
i saw the GO BEARS!!!
memnite much
Posted By:
umumwhatshisname
(6/30/2011 11:45:24 AM)
I agree with BegleOne. If you've got the tokens to make this useful, just use Overrun, or Echoing Courage. +2/+2 for 4 on a vanilla creature just isn't strong enough.
Posted By:
ScissorsLizard
(8/31/2011 10:22:42 PM)
No, this does not pump Imperiosaur. A detrimental ability, like the one the lizard's got, is still an ability.
Posted By:
scumbling1
(3/1/2011 3:32:21 PM)
i'd have preferred lower cost (like 1G) and nontoken permanents only. or another card doing that^^
Posted By:
rawsugar
(4/2/2011 5:32:48 AM)
@emcee117: You sir fail at Storm crow trolling. Flying is an ability therefore this does nothing for Storm crow. If no one believes me look at the rulings on this card.
Posted By:
ninjaboy05
(12/10/2012 5:30:02 PM)
I think that, just like the idiots running around saying: "0.5/5, dies to Doom Blade", we should all go around saying that "Earth Elemental is better than Arc Slogger because of this card"
Posted By:
Superllama12
(6/22/2011 8:38:49 PM)
Who said vanilla creatures had to be Muraganda's theme? Creatures that had abilities at certain power totals wasn't Scars of Mirrodin's theme.
Anyways, this card changes over time. It used to be that Transguild Courier wasn't affected by this, but now, because of color indicators, it's now vanilla.
Posted By:
Axelle
(8/9/2012 2:09:10 PM)
Overall I'm going to have to agree with the general idea that the cost might be a little high. It definitely feels like a 2G card to me. That said there is one word for which this card is rather fun: kobolds. Even in that case however there are too many good boosts for kobolds which grant abilities so even then this is limited in its usefulness. I'd almost rather stick with my p/t boosting instants than have a fourth round enchantment with an effect that stops helping me the second I cast an Overlord.
Posted By:
xarkos
(1/30/2012 3:27:06 PM)