You know what? The more I think of it, the less it makes sense.
A MASSIVE thing (a behemoth, perhaps?) which has haste. Most things with haste are either small or are dragons. If they ARE large, they are some sort of spirit or elemental.
It encourages your mates to fight harder but doesn't explain why. I think I'll go with daytodave's explanation of "He kind of makes your creatures into projectiles."
He doesn't have Trample (permanently, at least). Why not? F**k you, that's why.
Lastly, the flavour text just confuses everything. "Its footsteps of today are the lakes of tomorrow". Yeah, thanks flavour. Would that mean that this destroys things with it's mass, Terrastodon/Indrik Stomphowler-style? No? Oh, I see...
Posted By:
Ferlord
(8/14/2013 6:43:53 AM)
Its like a super overrun attached to a green fatty, 4.5/5
Also just imagine something that massive being able to run at high speeds, damn.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(8/25/2013 6:58:26 AM)
I'm trying to figure out the flavor.
The giant creature itself makes enough sense to me: (it would be very Innistrad if say, this creature was sleeping while Avacyn and Griselbrand were in the Helvault, then he woke up when they escaped).
The effect is more confusing. My ideas: 1. He is such a powerful force of green mana (equivalent to Avacyn for white mana judging by their mana costs) that he actually radiates power, which spreads throughout your army.
Or, 2. Your creatures see this thing coming and for a turn they charge straight into the enemy lines to get away from it until they realize that it's on their side.
Posted By:
Thornhillforge
(8/30/2013 8:08:54 AM)
The size of 3 Titanics and it's only a 5/5
Posted By:
UNATCO
(11/29/2013 2:58:57 PM)
I love the flavour of this card. Massive beast gets summoned, and absolutely tramples over the battlefield, so much so that all of your other creatures get pushed along with it. It's a giant bulldozer. The only thing that lacks flavour is not attacking with it!
Posted By:
dlsampson
(12/1/2013 7:46:21 PM)
Despite how sick I am of it, there's no denying this guy is THE finisher for nearly every green aggro deck. And if he isn't, then I take my hat off to you, and would certainly play you as a nice break from the other decks which aren't as enterprising. 5/5 (Begrudgingly)
Posted By:
BobbySinclair
(12/16/2013 3:47:37 AM)
I absolutely adore this card and rate it 5/5 and am happy to have it under any circumstances, but... what the blazes did this have to do with Avacyn Restored?
Posted By:
Salient
(1/9/2014 9:15:52 PM)
This is what makes combo elves Top-8 frequently. Attacking for 24 with three 1/Xs on the field *the turn it comes down.*
This is very much a Spike creature pretending to be a Timmy card IMO. It wins right away, it's not actually big, it rewards you for little guys and almost punishes you for other fat creatures. It's got weird flavor at best and leaves out any interaction save for open-mana instant speed kill spells (which is often still not enough with a horde of 6/6 trampling elves.)
It's a good creature for the Legacy format IMO but it's a bad creature for the kitchen table.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(3/14/2014 1:28:23 PM)
I don't think I've ever seen a game where this was cast and nobody died.
Posted By:
armogohma
(4/2/2014 10:38:19 AM)
I'm sure there's a Godzilla vs. Craterhoof Behemoth movie out there somewhere.
Posted By:
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
(5/15/2014 3:09:56 PM)