Fills alot of roles in different decks. sometimes, its just another artifact body for your artifact synergies. Other times, you care more about reusing etb effects. Maybe both in WB decks.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
I do know I acknowledged that in my second line when I said it was likely designed as a Common for Limited and didn't feel the need to spell out that Temur Sabertooth was an uncommon designed differently because all I was analyzing was whether a hypothetical repeatable 5 bounce would be worth on a creature that would cost no mana as opposed to requiring GG instead and my answer was it wasn't worth it.
As far as I was concerned I only need care about how efficiently each card fills the need for repeatable bounce (in both cast and activation costs) in an Animar deck. Their rarities and intended designs for other formats do not affect this judgement, otherwise I would have simply ruled this card out simply from a rarity=power perspective.
Which back on the topic, the bounce would probably need to cost 3 to activate before I considered the Sabertooth's position endangered.
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I invision a future where one is not mighty when he can silence a crowd with brutality,
but when he leaves them speechless with wisdom.
So we can call this one Eldrazi Misplacer?
Standard - RIP Cat
Modern - Death & Taxes
Commander - Mazirek, Trostani, Angry Omnath
I know it's a common (and one likely intended for Limited at that), but I just felt the urge to state its blandness, even if it was so.
Yea that's better than this easily
No way this is good without training grounds/Heartstone/Power artifact
One was created to be a format-defining rare and the other a common designed to fill limited needs, so it looks like they're both doing their job.
What do you know? Temur Sabertooth was an uncommon designed to fill different needs than Aegis Automaton.
Hence it being a LIMITED card.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
I do know I acknowledged that in my second line when I said it was likely designed as a Common for Limited and didn't feel the need to spell out that Temur Sabertooth was an uncommon designed differently because all I was analyzing was whether a hypothetical repeatable 5 bounce would be worth on a creature that would cost no mana as opposed to requiring GG instead and my answer was it wasn't worth it.
As far as I was concerned I only need care about how efficiently each card fills the need for repeatable bounce (in both cast and activation costs) in an Animar deck. Their rarities and intended designs for other formats do not affect this judgement, otherwise I would have simply ruled this card out simply from a rarity=power perspective.
Which back on the topic, the bounce would probably need to cost 3 to activate before I considered the Sabertooth's position endangered.