Is it just me or is this even stupider than Pack Rat? You will never, ever win a game after your opponent casts this no matter how far ahead you were, it and the tokens block and trade with anything. So, it's basically trading "better have removal on turn 2" for "better end the game before turn 7."
It's pretty intimidating, but it's 6 power in the air spread across 5 bodies; even without the deathtouch that would be at least heart-dropping. However, it doesn't say "you lose", rather, it says "you're probably not going to win anytime soon". You're also likely to get some serious card disadvantage in an attempt to break through it.
Now if your opponent has ways to bounce it and keep doing this... Yeah, that's probably game over.
This is nowhere near the power level of Pack Rat. The problem with Pack Rat is that it's an engine that turns every card you draw, including lands, into cheap creatures of increasing size. Plus it's near impossible to disrupt when played properly since the copies retain the ability. It also has inevitability -- the only way to try to beat a Pack Rat is to race.
I don't like the design of Hornet Queen because it creates un-fun stalemates, but it seems like a fair card for 7 mana and triple Green. Any card that promotes stalemates can't be "broken." It does not have inevitability. It seems quite difficult to defeat but that's what I would expect from a 7 drop.
I don't even think I would call this card a "bomb," let alone compare it to one of the most absurdly broken cards in limited history. You definitely couldn't run 39-lands, 1 Hornet Queen. It's just a solid seven-drop.
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Grimgrin, Corpseborn Modern: Polytokes IRL: Progenitus Polymorph , Goblins
If M15 is a slow format this thing will be a huge nightmare for players to deal with - but a little more like Colossal Whale was positioned in M14 rather than how Pack Rat was in RTR. I mean people lost to the whale all the time - at least my opponents did - and "Sigh, lost to turn 7 colossal whale" never became a thing.
It's pretty intimidating, but it's 6 power in the air spread across 5 bodies; even without the deathtouch that would be at least heart-dropping. However, it doesn't say "you lose", rather, it says "you're probably not going to win anytime soon". You're also likely to get some serious card disadvantage in an attempt to break through it.
Now if your opponent has ways to bounce it and keep doing this... Yeah, that's probably game over.
I don't like the design of Hornet Queen because it creates un-fun stalemates, but it seems like a fair card for 7 mana and triple Green. Any card that promotes stalemates can't be "broken." It does not have inevitability. It seems quite difficult to defeat but that's what I would expect from a 7 drop.
My Decks:
EDH: Sygg, River Cutthroat , Road to Scion
Grimgrin, Corpseborn
Modern: Polytokes
IRL: Progenitus Polymorph , Goblins
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