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This definitely seems like an uncommon. After that this card is not bad, if your aggro deck somehow gets to 6 mana you've got yourself a good beater, although it won't be often that you can actually get to that point with RDW.
Everyone clamoring that this card should be an uncommon. Red has had exactly one 2/X hastey guy with upsides at uncommon, and that's Speedway Fanatic. Earthshaker Khenra is in a different league to that card. It's 2 creatures in 1 and it can affect the board when it comes in, so a rare ranking is more than fair.
It will if it finds a deck, but I fear that its deck needs some good burn spells that can go to the dome. With the latest Lightning Strike variant costing 3 mana, I'm not too optimistic. I miss RDW in Standard tbh.
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It will if it finds a deck, but I fear that its deck needs some good burn spells that can go to the dome. With the latest Lightning Strike variant costing 3 mana, I'm not too optimistic. I miss RDW in Standard tbh.
Bingo! Not to mention that rotation is coming in a few months removing some of the better burn spells.
I need this in my RDW stat, maybe not 4 of but at least 2 or 3. It also works with my discard strategy so I can bring it back later in the game to finish it.
This is a pretty good card for RDW/ Boros strategies.
With uncommon worthy Eternalize cards like this, Reshaper Khenra and the doublestriking Cat being rares I can only guess that decent Eternalize cards were somehow warping the limited format at uncommon and had to be rareshifted. It definitely doesn't make sense from a constructed power level standpoint or a card complexity standpoint.
I definitely dig the card. I think red decks going forward will be using this. I sort of wish the eternalize cost was 5 mana though. The decks that this will most likely be going in won't be getting there that often.
Is it just me or did they make uncommons and then slap them with the rare tag? Some of the mythics this set have the same feeling as well...
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Everyone clamoring that this card should be an uncommon. Red has had exactly one 2/X hastey guy with upsides at uncommon, and that's Speedway Fanatic. Earthshaker Khenra is in a different league to that card. It's 2 creatures in 1 and it can affect the board when it comes in, so a rare ranking is more than fair.
Thats quite likely what WotC was thinking too.
But from the comments here you can guess that people still think its a terrible joke.
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Still no real reason to not make it uncommon, its a nice card in Limited and it would pull its weight.
As a rare this seems pretty boring (especially given that cards like Young Pyromancer are uncommon, while they could much more reasonable be rare).
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Everyone clamoring that this card should be an uncommon. Red has had exactly one 2/X hastey guy with upsides at uncommon, and that's Speedway Fanatic. Earthshaker Khenra is in a different league to that card. It's 2 creatures in 1 and it can affect the board when it comes in, so a rare ranking is more than fair.
Thats quite likely what WotC was thinking too.
But from the comments here you can guess that people still think its a terrible joke.
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Still no real reason to not make it uncommon, its a nice card in Limited and it would pull its weight.
As a rare this seems pretty boring (especially given that cards like Young Pyromancer are uncommon, while they could much more reasonable be rare).
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How and why cards are uncommon/rare/mythic is really a big discussion point in Amonkhet.
I'm kinda not sure if comparing a random rare to arguably the best red two drop ever printed is a fair comparison.
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I guess if Ire Shaman can be a rare this can too but I would've like to had this one at uncommon. Not that it really matters since burn is terrible and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better in the seeable future.
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Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
That looks extremely stupid as hell. They did not nail the eternal arts for anything, yet. Except Neheb.
I didn't realize this was a rare, either. Yuck.
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Nah they didn't nail it. They 'obelisk-ed' it.
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With uncommon worthy Eternalize cards like this, Reshaper Khenra and the doublestriking Cat being rares I can only guess that decent Eternalize cards were somehow warping the limited format at uncommon and had to be rareshifted. It definitely doesn't make sense from a constructed power level standpoint or a card complexity standpoint.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Thats quite likely what WotC was thinking too.
But from the comments here you can guess that people still think its a terrible joke.
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Still no real reason to not make it uncommon, its a nice card in Limited and it would pull its weight.
As a rare this seems pretty boring (especially given that cards like Young Pyromancer are uncommon, while they could much more reasonable be rare).
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How and why cards are uncommon/rare/mythic is really a big discussion point in Amonkhet.
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