The art is fantastic, who knew something so pretty could still live in the Innistrad wilds?
Posted By:
Dolorosa
(1/26/2012 8:05:40 PM)
Valakut would have -killed- for this guy over Khalni Heart Expedition. He's a relevant topdeck, he ramps, he block/sacs, he attacks/carried equips, and he doesn't tap to activate. I like him a lot.
Pair this with Ghoultree and Fling in Standard? #goofycomboisgoofy
Posted By:
Artifice101
(2/1/2012 2:21:00 AM)
I feel like having it cost G to play and G to activate could have been cool, and actually make it as useful as the elder. make the p/t 1/2 just to mirror. Still, fits great in Elder decks as a proxy (because Your Karador EDH can only have one sakura tribe elder anyway).
Art is Gorgeous. John Avon is getting better, and it shows.
Posted By:
RAV0004
(1/27/2012 1:40:12 PM)
My initial thoughts of this card were, "So, this is basically a bigger Sakura-Tribe Elder, but you have to pay to do the land search? Pfft, lame! Why didn't they just do a functional reprint?"
Then I took into consideration Innistrad and Dark Ascension's focus on creatures dying, and morbid. A reprint of STEve would be insane in limited, because you would have the power to control morbid at will, with no additional mana investment, which would probably go against Wizard's idea of having to make an effort to trigger morbid. With this Elk, you have to manage your resources carefully. Should I leave a Forest and Swamp open and bluff that I might have Tragic Slip in hand?
And then I appreciated the subtle nuances of this design, which almost made me forget the stupidity of recent mythics that win the game with no strategy needed other than casting it.
2.5/5
Posted By:
RJDroid
(1/28/2012 11:17:06 AM)
For those players SO snobby that they insist on using elk ramp to power out their turn 3 Glimmerpoint Stag :P
Posted By:
lorendorky
(1/26/2012 11:11:51 PM)
Seems like reprinting Sakura-Tribe Elder under a different name is an IMPOSSIBLE TASK for WotC. For some idiotic reason, they insist on trying to reinvent the wheel, with cards like this.
Seriously. Stop it. Just reprint the Elder already.
Posted By:
True_Mumin
(10/3/2012 5:32:12 AM)
This card is fantastic. People who jump to 'downgraded STE' are not thinking clearly.
I'm not saying that STE is broken and needs to never be reprinted. But just because something is 'fair' doesn't mean that a weaker version of it is 'crap'. Sakura Tribe Elder was SO fantastic, that even this Elk is quite good.
Bird of Paradise Lost
G
Flying
G, T: add one mana of any mana to your mana pool.
1/1
would be nuts. and if you're honest, you know it would be nuts. Elk is cool. I like Elk.
Also, snake-people are ugly. this could see the light of M13, if WotC wants to be nice to us :)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(1/31/2012 3:02:01 PM)
Did they just downgrade Sakura-Tribe Elder? Am I missing something?
Posted By:
Totema
(1/26/2012 11:47:50 PM)
Sakura-Tribe Elder?
Nah.
Posted By:
Pick15
(1/26/2012 9:04:25 PM)
Commander Review: it's so-so. If you have a deck that tries to run as many creatures as possible (or tons of reanimation), then this would fulfill both the criterias of a creature and of mana ramping. In any other deck though, it's not worth it. For three mana you can get much more than a single basic land, and the 2/2 body will nearly never matter in Commander.
1.5/5
Posted By:
majinara
(1/27/2012 10:49:54 PM)