Remember, faisjdas, this was printed in the days before Bankslayer and such. Creatures used to be costed with the assumption that they wouldn't immediately be destroyed/exiled/sacrificed/etc., unlike now.
Huh, I didn't know a s sumption was a dirty word.
Posted By:
TDL
(9/25/2010 1:04:28 PM)
Love the mechanics.
Posted By:
mrredhatter
(10/4/2009 9:42:28 AM)
The only white Djinn or Efreet... Army of Allah disapproves.
Posted By:
Naanomi
(3/11/2011 10:59:15 AM)
"Remember, faisjdas, this was printed in the days before Bankslayer and such. Creatures used to be costed with the assumption that they wouldn't immediately be destroyed/exiled/sacrificed/etc., unlike now."
However, this was printed after creatures such as Mahamoti Djinn, Shivan Dragon and Serra Angel -- all creatures above the baseline of one-mana-per-+1/+1 / keyword ability. They weren't above printing creatures that were aggressively-costed back then. My guess is that since this cycle is uncommon, giving the creatures a drawback was a way to keep Limited (where they are solid cards) safe from an abundance of 5/5 monsters.
Posted By:
scumbling1
(4/18/2011 3:22:56 PM)
Mahamoti Djinn, Sengir Vampire, Serra Angel and Shivan Dragon all has two colored mana requirement, but this has only one. So splash it into your non-white deck.
Posted By:
tavaritz
(11/19/2011 3:45:10 AM)
Because a 5/5 First striker with 6 was just to powerful to go without a drawback.
Posted By:
faisjdas
(1/31/2010 1:50:23 AM)
uh - at what point in Magic history did the R&D team think that Djinn = teh suck?
Posted By:
reapersaurus
(4/22/2011 1:35:51 AM)
shame about the cycle being fairly bad all round. All have such nice art
Posted By:
Latronis
(6/1/2011 3:08:20 AM)
It's a pretty good card, in my opinion. It would be best as Green, or Blue, or...Red or Black. But still fine as White.
Posted By:
NeoKoda
(8/16/2011 2:57:41 PM)
Would it have broken anything if this was costed 3W?
Posted By:
Gabriel422
(9/15/2011 3:38:20 PM)