I'm pretty sure the card is modern playable in a control shell, containing aggro decks with walls and counterspells while waiting for a lethal strike when you cast a 1G enchant seems like a viable strategy to me.
I am really curious to see what that deck list would look like. Like, I cannot even fathom what cards would go in there.
This set is doing impressive things for Green Devotion. Two GG creatures, a 1GG creature, all playable?
I can't imagine any of them are really playable, and if they are it isn't in green devotion. What dragons are you running for the Sentinels? Devotion might indeed be one of the few decks that wants Deathmist Raptor over Heir of the Wilds, but it definitely doesn't want it over Courser of Kruphix and it doesn't need an extra 3-drop when it can happily curve into Polukranos, Temur Sabertooth or, on a good draw, Arbor Colossus. And without +1/+1 counters to trigger its effect the Avatar seems mediocre.
Am I the only one who has this impression or are those two green cards potentially insane? especially the enchantment.
Yes you are the only one out of 8 billion people on the world.
...god I wish we could get away from this "am I the only one" phrase...
The creature seems real nice and should work well with the other green 2 drop in the set. The enchantment seems lackluster. Doran gives you a 5/5 body for just one mana more.
Yeah but: i. Doran is beyond broken; ii. Dies to a wider range of removal, iii. He does not removes defender.
Do I put assault formation in doran though? It's kinda redundant, but the universal shade ability is...okay... That 3/2 is pushed, boys.
It's slightly redundant, yes. But it still has relevant abilities like the pump and the defender enabler. Plus it's good to have a card like that in case your commander gets tucked. Let's you have another effect that keeps your build around strategy going.
I'm pretty sure the card is modern playable in a control shell, containing aggro decks with walls and counterspells while waiting for a lethal strike when you cast a 1G enchant seems like a viable strategy to me.
I am really curious to see what that deck list would look like. Like, I cannot even fathom what cards would go in there.
Terrible ones. Lots and lots of terrible cards.
On the brightside, if you're running lots of terrible 0/X cards; you don't have to worry about Elspeth board wiping them with her -3.
The enchantment makes Crater Elemental a much nicer card - turning a 0/6 blocker for 3 into a 6/6 blocker/attacker for 3.
this makes me so happy. i feel like it will be a really brutal combo.
jund pseudo-walls? disowned ancestor, assault formation, archer's parapet, and crater elemental? pretty nice turn 2 since you can swing for 4... turn 4 you swing for 12 and play a parapet...
I'm pretty sure the card is modern playable in a control shell, containing aggro decks with walls and counterspells while waiting for a lethal strike when you cast a 1G enchant seems like a viable strategy to me.
I am really curious to see what that deck list would look like. Like, I cannot even fathom what cards would go in there.
Terrible ones. Lots and lots of terrible cards.
On the brightside, if you're running lots of terrible 0/X cards; you don't have to worry about Elspeth board wiping them with her -3.
I'm a fan of the avatar, but I'm thinking Shaman of the Great Hunt and the Avatar along with tokens. Tokens tend to get through with the shaman I've noticed and that guarantees some extra love for the Avatar.
I can't wait to play against the super deep "None of my cards do anything besides block unless my enchantment is out. You'll let it stay on the board, right?" deck.
Both these rares are good, I plan to use the Avatar with Abzan Ascendancy. The toughness enchantment can replace some other card in my already being built (also toughness based) standard deck.
I can't wait to play against the super deep "None of my cards do anything besides block unless my enchantment is out. You'll let it stay on the board, right?" deck.
Geez, we already have a card nicknamed Buttfight. This new enchantment is like the UFC of buttfights. The Ultimate Butt-Fight Championship card of MTG.
I like big butts and I cannot lie. You other players cant deny. When a mage hits face with an ox or wall. You get sprung cause that wall is hung. All your guys wanna do is sit but hitting my face with that Kraken Hatchling makes me wanna quit.
After I beat my opponent down with big butts he is going to be an honest butt hurt beverly.
Rhox Faithmender, Silklash Spider, Grizzled Leotau and maybe even Hold the Gates if you're willing to use *****ty gates, lol.
UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
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I can't imagine any of them are really playable, and if they are it isn't in green devotion. What dragons are you running for the Sentinels? Devotion might indeed be one of the few decks that wants Deathmist Raptor over Heir of the Wilds, but it definitely doesn't want it over Courser of Kruphix and it doesn't need an extra 3-drop when it can happily curve into Polukranos, Temur Sabertooth or, on a good draw, Arbor Colossus. And without +1/+1 counters to trigger its effect the Avatar seems mediocre.
UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
Turn 1: Ornithopter, Island, Embodiment of Spring
Turn 2: Forest, Meletis Astronomer
Turn 3: Land, Triton Tactics on Thopter and Astronomer, trigger, find and cast Assault Formation. Swing for 14.
Yeah but: i. Doran is beyond broken; ii. Dies to a wider range of removal, iii. He does not removes defender.
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BG Auras
It's slightly redundant, yes. But it still has relevant abilities like the pump and the defender enabler. Plus it's good to have a card like that in case your commander gets tucked. Let's you have another effect that keeps your build around strategy going.
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On the brightside, if you're running lots of terrible 0/X cards; you don't have to worry about Elspeth board wiping them with her -3.
this makes me so happy. i feel like it will be a really brutal combo.
jund pseudo-walls? disowned ancestor, assault formation, archer's parapet, and crater elemental? pretty nice turn 2 since you can swing for 4... turn 4 you swing for 12 and play a parapet...
EDH: UBRJeleva | GURSurrak
4x Dragon's Eye Savants
4x Courser of Kruphix
3x Bloodfire Mentor
4x Crater Elemental
4x Assault Formation
4x Triton Tactics
4x Collected Company
2x Dig Through Time
3x Sarkhan Unbroken
Quick idea
I want to make it. But... it's so janky. Like. SO janky.
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Altenratively, play it with actually good low-power cards like Courser of Kruphix, Silumgar, the Drifting Death, and Sylvan Caryatid.
After I beat my opponent down with big butts he is going to be an honest butt hurt beverly.