This card is a mistake, 4 out of 5 decks in my tournament group plays it, including myself, and I don't feel good about it, but I have to to keep up. Waaaayyyy too much value for 5 CMC with no splashing hinderances. It should have been 3green mana and 2 colourless, this is just wrong, and everybody is playing it. So good on it's own, and with restoration angel, it gets really dumb. If this keeps up, it will get banned, it would make for a more diverse metagame. It makes aggro kind of pointless to play.
Posted By:
Sironos
(11/12/2012 3:21:32 PM)
My only gripe about this card is that it's brainlessly good. You don't need to build around it, it's not weak to any specific deck, it doesn't clash with any type of deck, it's easily splashable, and doesn't even fully die to doom blade.
Hell, casting a single board wipe after this guy his the battle field is a surefire way to ruin your opponents day.
As powerful as this card is with the current format, they really need to restrict this to a "two of" for decks. I guarantee it would make the format more diverse.
Posted By:
Rootkit9208
(1/30/2013 11:16:03 AM)
When this card rotates, I'm throwing a party.
Posted By:
ATM97
(7/17/2013 4:02:11 PM)
Gatherer community is babies.
"Ban please" is all the comments in a nutshell, like really.
This card is FINE. It's really good, in Standard, right now. If Resto wasn't in standard, this wouldn't be as good. (Conversely, Resto is seeing play in some Modern and I think Legacy? Not sure.)
Regardless, the current Standard format is making life totals matter.
See this, Sphinx's Revelation.
Regardless, this card isn't ban-worthy. It's not even CLOSE to dominating the format like Jace, Stoneforge, and Skullclamp did.
Posted By:
yousquiddinme
(6/9/2013 6:55:01 PM)
It's an obvious 5/5 for this guy but its getting so much hate for being overpowered just like Mind Sculptor.
Posted By:
zomboss
(1/5/2013 1:50:24 AM)
"Always carry two spears"
-Mokgar, Kalonian Hunter
Posted By:
LordWalter
(11/28/2012 3:41:44 PM)
Well, looks like I'm going to have to go build that "value added" mono-green casual stompy deck now. Thragtusk, meet Pelakka Wurm and Obstinate Baloth, your partners in crime!
Posted By:
Cubozoan
(7/13/2012 10:05:15 PM)
majinara there is another boar creature that I forgot the name of but it kind of explains the flavor of green lifegain stuck to creatures. The idea is there's like, a herd of them or whatever, and when they enter the battlefield, we are supposed to assume that the Planeswalker who summoned them is a Garruk-type who hunts one of them caveman style and eats it, probably just 'cooked' (burned) enough to be dead after sticking your Hunting Shishkebob through it. OM-NOM-NOM!
Meat = Life Points. Thragtusk is a Brontosaurus Burger, and if you don't know what that is, get out of my sight and never play Magic again. :P
@all the people smarter than majinara: Thragtusk is obviously much MORE than 'just' a Brontosaurus Burger. But he's also clearly a delicious Brontosaurus Burger as well. With all the fixings, just like Wilma used to make 'em :)
Posted By:
ParallaxtheRevan
(7/16/2012 7:44:55 AM)
Maybe I'm blind, but... This ain't bad, but it doesN't seem that good to me either. Let's have a closer look
Stats: by itself, it's a 5/3. At common, you get a 5/5 for that amount of mana. And it has no trample nor hexproof nor regeneration nor anything else.
Token: it gives you a 3/3 when it dies. And it's likely to die with just 3 toughness for five mana. And sure, a 3/3 token is cute, but it's not great either.
And the five life? They make no sense. They are nice too, but this guy wants to be played in an aggressive deck obviously. What with high power, low toughness, and token when he dies. And lifegain is unnecessary in an aggressive deck.
If I'd want a guy that gives me a token, I'd rather play a penumbra wurm. Sure, costs a bit more, but there is a huge difference between a 6/6 trampler that gives me a 6/6 trampling token, and this dude.
I give him a 3/5. He's ok, but... not that great. Even flavorlike I don't get the lifegain. It seems so random.
Posted By:
majinara
(7/10/2012 5:00:18 AM)
I think they specifically made this a "leaves the Battlefield" trigger rather than a "dies" trigger so that it would interact well with Worldfire. As it is, the rather obscure and borderline unplayable Walker of the Grove is the only other card that does anything similar, and there's no other clear reason for them having done it.
I'm not complaining, though! I love it.
Posted By:
The_Murderauder
(7/7/2012 1:18:05 PM)