Well, with a sac outlet and any creature with an enter of leaves play effect it gets good, one of the first games I played I had sadistic hypnotist, Primeval Titan, and those two out. That game had 0 LD in it turn 7 I had every land in the deck in play and the next tun I drew an eternal witness or something like that. So it can do stupid stuff, but it would be one of the more limited cards in the deck I agree.
Dross Scorpion only works if an artifact creature is put into the GY which is... itself or wurmcoil in my list. In order to abuse dross scorpion in this fashion you'd have to have Cauldron of Souls or the saffi/rev/karmic combo up. Without one of these the scorpion does nothing for you. I'm not saying its not an awesome combo when it goes off, I just think the scorpion is terrible without the combo and its nice when cards can pull their own weight even when a combo isn't on the board.
Still, I'll try it out in the list and see how it goes. Maybe I'll fall in love (primetime combo does seem pretty wicked) Plus you'll usually draw at least one tutor so grabbing the scorpion with cauldron in hand or play seems like a good option... I think I'll take out Necromancer's Covenant for now to test.
I forgot to mention that I had a juniper order ranger in play, it or some other way to repeatedly give +1/+1 counters is required. But yeah that was one of the first things I though of when I built the deck originally, that or doing stupid stuff with a recurred Azusa.
I thank you for that combo, because I've actually gotten it off and done some major damage I've removed squirrel nest because while it's cute it happens much more often that you get it and not earthcraft and are stuck with a bad card (squirrel nest is near worthless without earthcraft). In its place I've put Sylvan Library because draw is awesome in this deck. Still trying to find room for crucible and Phyrexian Arena. I'm not sure how the latter wasn't already in the list <_<
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UWBSen TripletsUWB
Still, I'll try it out in the list and see how it goes. Maybe I'll fall in love (primetime combo does seem pretty wicked) Plus you'll usually draw at least one tutor so grabbing the scorpion with cauldron in hand or play seems like a good option... I think I'll take out Necromancer's Covenant for now to test.
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Modern: W Soul Sisters (WIP), GW Melira Pod (WIP)
Current EDH:
G Ezuri's Renegade Elves (thread)
BGW Ghave's Legion (thread)
WUB Sharuum, Artifact Savant
UWRasputin DreamweaverUW
UWBSen TripletsUWB
Scry! (rollover popups)
Modern: W Soul Sisters (WIP), GW Melira Pod (WIP)
Current EDH:
G Ezuri's Renegade Elves (thread)
BGW Ghave's Legion (thread)
WUB Sharuum, Artifact Savant