@ph4ntom.lance - You mean the casting cost you'll never pay thanks to Stoneforge Mystic, who also makes this uncounterable? Right-o
Posted By:
Luke_BPC
(5/8/2011 5:41:45 PM)
no color commitment
gain you life
attack without leaving you open
bounce to recur the germ token
bounce to save it from artifact hate
recover quickly from boardsweep
equip on some other creature (anything from myr to eldrazi)
new ability good even for legacy/vintage..
edit : wasn't being clear about the term starting price, as in it's worth 24$ a pop. sry, was on a tangent about the abilities of this card that there was some confusion. it is undoubtedly extremely good with stoneforge and should be worth as much now, when she rotates out however, ppl having bought this at its initial price will most likely be disappointed.. but i guess that is just marketing 101 which i won't get into since there are better threads about this for more obviously inflated cards shortly after their release
Posted By:
ph4ntom.lance
(5/8/2011 11:28:52 PM)
This card alone makes things very tough for agro. Combined with Mystics (and with Jace in the background), agro is all but dead until the rotation.
In limited this card is simply insane. I watched a match at the pre-release where one person had a board full of creatures and enough mana to re-equip and use a heavy arbelest 3 times a turn (often 2x to repeatedly "kill" the batterskull) and he still didn't have enough time to cut through the ~100 life the batterskull player had gotten to before running out of cards.
Posted By:
Nighthawk42
(5/11/2011 7:50:44 AM)
For the record, the Germ token piloting this thing is that little purple pimple looking thing just behind the 'head'.
Posted By:
HairlessThoctar
(5/16/2011 7:58:28 AM)
Oh dear.
... My friend got on fo there in prerelease with Karn.
... I felt I was screwed.
Posted By:
Bursama
(5/20/2011 9:00:12 AM)
If you pull this card in limited you WILL win nuff said.
Posted By:
TheDonMega
(5/23/2011 10:59:47 AM)
Soooo I can create an Army of Germ Tokens...SWEET!
Posted By:
BGrock
(5/23/2011 5:27:56 PM)
Ok, 4,5 stars minus 4 for the art... just joking, it's an incredible non-doom bladeable card (since it's a living weapon) and lives enough to make a pseudo BS out of a llanowar elves (yes, since mrs stoneforge got banned, this card is nice in green). Why green? 1st, it's a good easy to play pseudo-black monster in a green deck. 2nd, even without doom blade, if it's removed, it's also easy to equip. 3rd, if your opponent face this card before i don't know a green Terra Stomper beatdown card, he wil be doubtfull if sidedecking cards like Shatter.
Posted By:
Disruptor
(7/20/2011 11:56:31 PM)
This is one of the most pathetic excuses for a mythic rare I have ever seen.
Not saying it isn't good though, in fact it is very good. But there is nothing about this that feels mythic at all. Its a freakin' battering ram! Do the people of New Phyrexia bow down to a battering ram? Maybe vigilance is understandable but lifelink? Its a battering ram that absorbs the life from its victims? Seems like the only reason its mythic is to make it harder to find in a booster.
Posted By:
JFM2796
(7/25/2011 1:32:15 PM)
In all the raving about this card, don't forget the most important factor:
It's strictly better than Sliptide Serpent!
Posted By:
alextfish
(11/14/2011 9:17:30 AM)