He's such a good utility card.
-His cycling ability offers colour-fixing by fetching ABU Duals and Shocks.
-His cycling ability can fetch Mistveil Plains.
-His cycling ability has a shuffle effect. Refreshes the top of your library for cards like Sensei's Divining Top and Scroll Rack.
-He has great synergy with cards that can repeatedly return creature cards to your hand from the graveyard, like Sword of Light and Shadow.
-He's still a big flier and can hold Equipment like a champ.
I run him in my Eight-and-a-Half-Tails Voltron Commander deck and I'm never disappointed when I draw him.
Posted By:
Jake1991
(10/29/2013 5:35:05 PM)
Apparently self-pleasuring oneself eternally becomes so boring that even our old friend is now looking for weird ways to spicy it up. What can you do, we're all victims of sexuality; even dragon spirits need to get some lovin'.
For those that don't know, it depicts an Ouroboros; a tail-eater in Greek, a snake (or serpent) depicted to eat its own tail. It symbolizes cyclicality, in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, like the Phoenix. Ain't that dandy.
Die.
Reborn.
Die.
Reborn.
Die.
Reborn.
Die.
disconnect
All levity aside, it's a 5/5 flyer for 7 mana which is "bleh". But it can also thin your deck early by drawing you those nasty plains (or shockl/dual lands) out. It can be discarded and come back to your hand later on, or be summoned as a 5/5 flyer when you need it. He's white, meaning you can clear the table with a Wrath of God and then get this one back on the battlefield again.
I wouldn't say that I like the new art better than the old one... (see all)
Posted By:
Zefyrus
(10/29/2013 4:50:53 PM)
Simple, elegant, and awesome. Gets you started early, keeps you going late.
...And I like having at least 1 dragon in each of my EDH (commander... pffft...) decks. Call me crazy.
Posted By:
Phaeoxen
(2/6/2014 11:25:11 PM)
"oh gahd why am I biting my own tail, but it tastes so good uuuuugh"
Posted By:
Goatllama
(1/8/2014 11:41:50 AM)
Repeatable card advantage comes at a steep price; but it's a big deal for some decks to be able to continue a perpetual ramp. Even better? At 5 mana he ensures that you'll get enough to cast him.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(10/30/2013 11:04:47 AM)
Versatility + Timmy + Great Art = Grand Design
Posted By:
Cyberium
(10/30/2013 1:22:28 PM)
Excellent insight Zefyrus but I would like to point out the Ouroboros is older than Greece. It came in the 14th century BC in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld.
Posted By:
lorendorky
(10/29/2013 8:22:00 PM)
goes in every one of my white EDH decks. i like him too much. Get him early game, go grab a land, get him late game, play him.
He's never not good.
Posted By:
MANABURNWASGOOD
(11/4/2013 10:39:11 AM)
Times have passed his prime usefulness, but I'll be damned if this isn't the most adorable dragon ever.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(10/29/2013 7:52:07 PM)
what are the odds that two MTG cards in a row, I would find comments related to violating oneself, from two different commenters. o.O
IN THE SAME SET and near each other ALPHABETICALLY -_-
Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder and Eternal Dragon, you have officially been:
Enough Internet for Me Today X.X
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(10/30/2013 11:31:22 AM)