Just saw the creature type was a turtle and/or an elephant. So it switches between a 1/4 Horned Turtle or a 3/3 Elephant token.
I like the idea of just having this in your deck and going, "In response pay 0, the Elephant in my library/graveyard/my hand is now a Turtle". Probably best doing it game 2, after your opponent already knows you have one.
I feel like I'm missing something. This feels like a fiddly design with minimal payoff. Is Hyena Pack a weird card? Well, how would you like a card that's nearly the same board impact, but not quite (can't survive while killing 3/2s or 3/3s)? Yeah, it transfers from Horned Turtle to Trained Armodon, but that discrepancy isn't wide enough to have many strategic purposes. I feel like this design could work, but why on vanilla creatures that are already so close to one another (-2/+1 or +2/-1)? Primal Clay gets it, those modes feel more distinct. Why couldn't this be "Cougargoyle" and switched between a 4/2 with trample and a 1/5 with reach?
These claims would be retracted if this were common. Then the simplicity would be appropriate. And with so much else amazing in the set, I don't feel too bad about it. But this design seems really strange in a "is that it?" kind of way.
Was this designed around the pun name, banking on the overwhelming comedic wellspring that IS the realization that the syllable "el" is contained both within the word "elephant" and "shell" in the English language? (Update: I read its original name was Elephurtle, so that theory is out.)
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Goes infinite with Crackdown Construct. Just takes one copy, anywhere in your deck/hand/graveyard to boot. That's gotta be a super casual super combo worth building around. ...Right?
Goes infinite with Crackdown Construct. Just takes one copy, anywhere in your deck/hand/graveyard to boot. That's gotta be a super casual super combo worth building around. ...Right?
Or it gets abused in a peasant cube where Crackdown is already pretty good
Goes infinite with Crackdown Construct. Just takes one copy, anywhere in your deck/hand/graveyard to boot. That's gotta be a super casual super combo worth building around. ...Right?
Or it gets abused in a peasant cube where Crackdown is already pretty good
I guess this is why we can't have nice things, right? Design spends ages working on new and interesting things only to have degenerates reverse engineer them into WMDs an hour after they're revealed.
Goes infinite with Crackdown Construct. Just takes one copy, anywhere in your deck/hand/graveyard to boot. That's gotta be a super casual super combo worth building around. ...Right?
Or it gets abused in a peasant cube where Crackdown is already pretty good
I guess this is why we can't have nice things, right? Design spends ages working on new and interesting things only to have degenerates reverse engineer them into WMDs an hour after they're revealed.
Not to be that guy, but this will only "go infinite" with Crackdown Construct while both are on the battlefield.
Note that the Crackdown Construct triggers when you activate the ability of an Artifacts or Creatures. The Shellephant is only a Creature while on the battlefield, everywhere else it is a Creature CARD, not the same thing.
Not to be that guy, but this will only "go infinite" with Crackdown Construct while both are on the battlefield.
Note that the Crackdown Construct triggers when you activate the ability of an Artifacts or Creatures. The Shellephant is only a Creature while on the battlefield, everywhere else it is a Creature CARD, not the same thing.
Absolutely correct. I wasn't considering the full ramifications of activating a card while its still in the library. Should have spent more time thinking about the card and less time questioning my own degeneracy.
Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
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"Hold on, I activate my Shellephant"
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I like the idea of just having this in your deck and going, "In response pay 0, the Elephant in my library/graveyard/my hand is now a Turtle". Probably best doing it game 2, after your opponent already knows you have one.
These claims would be retracted if this were common. Then the simplicity would be appropriate. And with so much else amazing in the set, I don't feel too bad about it. But this design seems really strange in a "is that it?" kind of way.
Was this designed around the pun name, banking on the overwhelming comedic wellspring that IS the realization that the syllable "el" is contained both within the word "elephant" and "shell" in the English language? (Update: I read its original name was Elephurtle, so that theory is out.)
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
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WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Or it gets abused in a peasant cube where Crackdown is already pretty good
I guess this is why we can't have nice things, right? Design spends ages working on new and interesting things only to have degenerates reverse engineer them into WMDs an hour after they're revealed.
Not to be that guy, but this will only "go infinite" with Crackdown Construct while both are on the battlefield.
Note that the Crackdown Construct triggers when you activate the ability of an Artifacts or Creatures. The Shellephant is only a Creature while on the battlefield, everywhere else it is a Creature CARD, not the same thing.
Absolutely correct. I wasn't considering the full ramifications of activating a card while its still in the library. Should have spent more time thinking about the card and less time questioning my own degeneracy.
This has Wild Pair potential, though: 5 or 6.
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Does that make him a hero in a half-shell?
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