Mongrel in new design? SWEET !
Posted By:
True_Smog
(11/21/2009 5:13:21 AM)
ClockworkSwordfish: The color change protects it from removal and helps it against protection. You can pitch a card to make it black and make it impervious to Terror and Dark Banishing, or to block that Mirran Crusader or a creature wielding Sword of Body and Mind or Feast and Famine can still be blocked by this. The color change becomes really awesome once you start thinking of all the times it may come in handy.
Posted By:
GrimjawxRULES
(1/26/2012 3:58:39 PM)
I love the extra "color of your choice" ability. It's useless most of the time but doesn't detract from the awesomeness of this card, and every now and then you'll run into someone with protection from green.
Posted By:
Trygon_Predator
(5/3/2012 12:18:01 PM)
@TheWrathOfShane
Why are you judging a card in constructed on how good it does when you're playing it outside its niche?
No, seriously. Constructed is meant to be built around synergies. If you're trying to use this in a deck where you actually plan to cast those and don't want things in your graveyard, you're doing it wrong. Wild Mongrel is a good card because it does things extremely well in the right deck, and thus deserves a good rating. Would you play Cranial Plating in a deck without artifacts? Does that make it a bad card because it doesn't do much on its own?
Posted By:
NARFNra
(8/22/2013 12:03:11 AM)
@TheWrathofShane
Still a bear with upside. He won't die to Lightning Bolt or Doom Blade, he'll trade with quite a few things and the ability to just drop your hand if you get the chance to swing for lethal is a pretty big deal. So, I guess the response to your question is "No, Wild Mongrel is NOT pretty terrible."
Posted By:
Taudisban
(9/9/2013 12:15:37 AM)
it was amusing when my opponent played 4 forced fruition and I ddnt play anything during those turns then played this drew 28 cards then discarded them all for this dude then played fling drew another 28 cards then discarded those for his effect and hit him for 60.....he was at 5 xD
Posted By:
Saxican
(6/25/2011 4:10:52 PM)
I wonder if he started out with the color change ability (to tie in with Invasion block shenanigans) and when development found that to be too weak they said, "let's just have it pump itself, what's the worst that could happen?"
Posted By:
Saikuba
(5/15/2012 1:48:18 PM)
wow
so green
such cheap
so madnis
very drege
Posted By:
Totema
(11/9/2013 4:15:50 PM)
strictly better than Storm Crow
Posted By:
gromgrom777
(8/3/2010 3:13:13 PM)
Now play him without madness cards.
Pretty terrible right?
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(4/16/2013 5:40:28 AM)