At least he's got better artwork than Sphinx of Jwar Isle...
Posted By:
True_Smog
(2/7/2010 9:22:50 AM)
Dudes it looks *** awesome and its a 8/7 flying for 7 mana =)
Posted By:
TheKyleman
(2/7/2010 2:26:07 PM)
Play it in a deck with Djinn of Wishes and he can be an 8/7 with flying for 4 mana. ;)
Posted By:
lukemol
(2/11/2010 9:55:29 PM)
What can I say? This card is obviously not aimed at me. It's unplayable pretty much everywhere except maybe limited, where the seven mana is still pretty restrictive. Meh.
Although according to Mike Turian, its playtest name in design was "Big Bird," which definitely scores it a few points.
Posted By:
mutantman
(2/16/2010 6:49:21 PM)
I think he's a good toolbox card for blue, actually. Sometimes, you can stuff all the tricks and sleights you want up your sleeves, and do just fine, but there are times when nothing quite does it like a big stick with big muscle. Teddy Roosevelt got the point. Maybe blue should. No, I'd never run a playset of these, but... he's another trick in the toolbox.
Posted By:
Kweane
(2/22/2010 8:32:32 AM)
Not a bad card, but incredibly boring. Rares should never be this vanilla. If this were uncommon, people would still be like 'yawn'.
Posted By:
Laguz
(2/22/2010 1:22:17 PM)
I never got to play this in a game. Its boring, and too expensive. My friend played one of these and i took it out instantly with a doom blade. Least they can do is to add shroud to spice it up a little bit.
Posted By:
Ventrisor
(3/11/2010 12:29:13 PM)
This card really doesn't have any drawbacks, does it? That said, I can't see it being particularly useful, either....
If I want a Sphinx that is a monster in combat I'll gladly stick with Sphinx of the Steel Wind, though they don't go together in the same kind of deck anyway haha
Posted By:
Ezenthar
(3/13/2010 4:42:52 AM)
in step seven a 8/7 creature with flying? not so good
Posted By:
Denizs
(3/16/2010 1:09:27 PM)
I'd rather have a sphinx ambassador or sphinx of jwar isle for the shroud.. but.. its still a huge flying creature and its hard to say thats bad. If you ever hit once with that much power you take off almost half their life points, which is pretty insane. On the downside it has no protection from removal and its not like your reserving mana for counter spells for this guy after the expensive mana cost, he's also not the only giant flyer in blue at the moment. With enough mana you could slap a clout of the dominus on him for a 9/8 flying shroud.. or with privileged position played in white with a blue/white deck, and thats nothing to sneeze at. Biggest problem I can see is blue's complete lack of anyway to trick out big creatures, you could potentially I suppose splash green and then accel or use elvish piper. Love greg staples art on this guy too, they should put it up as a wallpaper on the magic site.
Be nice to see sphinx get some "tribal"esque kind of abilities like dragons... (see all)
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(3/20/2010 1:31:38 AM)