I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
Probably too difficult to get this thing to grow reliably, but I love the design. Can't really judge how good this thing is without playing it. Using it to fight other creatures or a pump spell to keep it from trading in combat is probably too cute.
I dont think its too hard to get this huge. Savage stomp, Samut, the Tested, Rile......There's a few decent ways. Also, curving into a rishkar on turn 3 makes it far more likely to get its enrage off.
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Wr Midrange
Mono white aggro
WR aggro
The card is probably WAY more playable than the other rare Ceratopsian, and I'm excited that this isn't an overcosted mess like the other one, but would it have killed them to make it a 1/3 instead of a 2/2? The card is way too reliant on other enablers in your deck to stop it from being anything but a bear in the vast majority of circumstances.
A playable card, will certainly help get the NayaDino deck in the right direction. Think it could shine after rotanion, when energy and fatal push are out.
It takes a lot of work for this to ever grow, but when it does boy howdy. Probably would have been unfair as a 2/3, or at least miserable to play against, but man do I wish that it was a 2/3.
RIP Fungusaur. This isn't strictly better since it requires white, but for any dino deck worth its salt ol' Fungy is out.
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A playable card, will certainly help get the NayaDino deck in the right direction. Think it could shine after rotanion, when energy and fatal push are out.
One can hope... But likely the first set after the core will introduce similarly metaearping stuff. Ive been bitten by the 'oh this set looks neat - just gotta ride it out until rotation...' Bug far too many times.
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That's rather uninspired for a rare slot. Like the flavor text indicates, without any combo pieces, the only thing that can trigger this in normal combat is taking just 1 damage from a creature block that your opponents can avoid by not attacking or blocking with 1 power creatures into this. In most fair play, this will simply be a harder to cast grizzly bears. How many 1 power threats are you going to run into? Just tokens like vampires really.
The card really needs to be played with self-damaging effects like pestilence to get any value, or one-shot effects like combat tricks can create favorable blocks, but even then its not much of a pay-off when it works, the effects only really busted when its repeatable
The curve with forerunner of the empire is just backwards however
2/2 seems too small for this to get big reliably. Interesting design, but seems too small to work.
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Love this for my Sigarda Duel Commander deck. Drop a sword on it, can hit it with Walking Ballista to pump it, just keeps getting bigger.
Sweet card.
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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.
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I dig the vibrant art too, the blue dino with the gold frame should look pretty sweet in foil.
Wr Midrange
Mono white aggro
WR aggro
Modern decks:
Naya burn
Bushwhacker zoo
8 Whack
Legacy decks:
Burn
with this be a beater, or just far too difficult to grow?
Wr Midrange
Mono white aggro
WR aggro
Modern decks:
Naya burn
Bushwhacker zoo
8 Whack
Legacy decks:
Burn
Bye bye fungusaur hello seigehorn ceratops for my dinosaur edh deck.
With that hatchling that allows you to flash in a Dino when it dies, this could be good I guess.
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They want Dinos to be Naya......and tbh....So do I....
Wr Midrange
Mono white aggro
WR aggro
Modern decks:
Naya burn
Bushwhacker zoo
8 Whack
Legacy decks:
Burn
UW Azorius Control
Modern
UW Azorius Control
RIP Fungusaur. This isn't strictly better since it requires white, but for any dino deck worth its salt ol' Fungy is out.
RCRDaretti: Superfriends Forever RCR
WGBDoran: Ent-mootWBG
GGGMultani: Group Bear HugGGG
GB(B/G)The Gitrog Monster: Dredgefall DurdleGB(B/G)
RGWGahiji, the Honored Group Hug MonsterRGW
UB(U/B)Yuriko, Ninja Trinket AggroUB(U/B)
WUBRGAtogatog: Assembling a OHKOWUBRG
One can hope... But likely the first set after the core will introduce similarly metaearping stuff. Ive been bitten by the 'oh this set looks neat - just gotta ride it out until rotation...' Bug far too many times.
The card really needs to be played with self-damaging effects like pestilence to get any value, or one-shot effects like combat tricks can create favorable blocks, but even then its not much of a pay-off when it works, the effects only really busted when its repeatable
The curve with forerunner of the empire is just backwards however
at least its a bear on its own, fungusaur was not
It should be a pretty foil though.
EDH Decks
UWB Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's spring of life
RUG Animar, Soul of the Elements and friends... lots of them
WBG Karador king of two worlds (value and attrition)
WRKalemne's Angels
BRUG Yidris's Wild Party
UWBR Breya's Terrifying Tinker Toys
UBR The Pretender
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Sweet card.
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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.