Maybe its just wishful thinking but wouldn't this just be a great foreshadowing for the reprinting of the shocklands? I mean hummmm why else would we get this guy over Llanowar Elves...I don't know maybe for those precious little duel lands that say "This counts as a Forest as well as a Mountain".
But really I'm just like a child before Christmas hopping that Santa brings what I asked for. I'm just using Arbor Elf as an excuse to express my desires
Posted By:
Eliteninjasauce
(8/15/2012 10:57:44 AM)
Noticing so many subtle nods to Ravnica in M13. This guy pairs nicely with the shock lands, I hope they get reprinted. This isn't the only one I've noticed, either.
Posted By:
Plaid_Mage
(8/20/2012 1:04:18 AM)
In combo with Utopia Sprawl, in casual or modern, this guy gets pretty disgusting, pretty fast. Let's have an exemple from an Elf ramp deck I made :
Turn 1 : Forest, Arbor Elf
Turn 2 : Forest, Utopia Sprawl on tapped Forest, Tap Arbor Elf to untap enchanted Forest, Elven Archdruid
Turn 3 : Forest, Tap 3 Forests for 4 mana, Archdruid for 2, Arbor Elf for 2 more, and cast Primordial Hydra as a 6\6
Turn 4 : Attack with a 12\12 trample. Boom.
Turn 5 : Win if your opponent didn't have a removal for the Hydra. He'd better not play only Red and Green...
Not counting the fact that you can enchant a forest with more than one Utopia Sprawl, ever increasing the mana you get from that Elf card. Imagine if in my exemple, instead of the Archdruid, you played two Sprawls ... (see all)
Posted By:
Trep.the.Treehugger
(8/9/2012 1:07:16 AM)
Hm, Llanowar Elves, Arbor Elf, Elvish Visionary, and Elvish Archdruid, and Ezuri, Renegade Leader are all in Standard. Tribal time anyone?
Posted By:
GlassJoetheChamp
(7/11/2012 11:12:59 AM)
Better than Llanowar Elves if the shocklands are reprinted.
Posted By:
Feralsymphony
(7/6/2012 10:48:06 AM)
this is a real middle finger to llanowar elves
Posted By:
Arachibutyrophobia
(7/5/2012 6:04:49 PM)
Honestly, I prefer this to the stale llanowar elves... This can provide a wider range of mana if used with dual lands (Forest Plains, etc) and is a well needed update on the art/FT
Posted By:
ThisisSakon
(7/5/2012 6:23:37 PM)
More versatile than Llanowar Elves, and versatility is always appreciated.
Posted By:
Eternal_Blue
(7/5/2012 11:43:01 PM)
How is this not AT LEAST 4.0? And 4.0 would still be a bit low.
I can go infinite with this on turn two in modern U/R/G ramps.
Turn one: Stomping ground, arbor elf.
Turn two: Forest, utopia sprawl on stomping ground, selecting blue. tap the stomping ground for UR, then untap it and tap it for UR. Play Freed From the Real on Arbor Elf, leaving U floating. Then, untap him and tap Stomping Ground a billion times. Then play Banefire.
Turn three: What turn three?
Posted By:
JackTheStripper
(8/13/2012 10:44:14 AM)
Not better than Llanowar Elves in any way. It really sucks if you didn't draw any of your shocklands and you only drew the INN/M13 dual lands...
Posted By:
Axelle
(10/24/2012 10:09:06 PM)