Seriously next level Golgari. Garruk Wildspeaker sees play. Garruk, Primal Hunter sees play. Garruk, Caller of Beasts sees play. I truly believe 5GB is really not a big deal especially around devotions. Mono green splash black will be a thing, now that green has the access to most of the good cards, and splashing black really not a problem with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth reprint without disturbing Nissa's untap Forests ability.
With so many planeswalkers played in standard, he will be getting all the love he needs, killing planeswalkers. In MM's Colossal Gruul, Garruk, Apex Predator takes Xenagos, the Reveler place in creating tokens, Domri Rade in killing dudes and with an advantage of slaughtering planeswalkers.
Having said that, a few GB builds that can be developed along with Garruk in it.
Gb Devotion focuses on explosive ramping strategy with wincon by creating bunch of 3/3 Beast tokens from Soul of Zendikar. Since there are 6 legendary creatures, sacrificing one for Life's Legacy for card draw and able to play the same legendary again. Polukranos gets to monstrous once again.
I must agree with golgari (or whatever splash color you want with urborg) garruk is certainly a playable card, if nothing else the plus one walker kill and beast summon is rather relevant, with nissa he could easily be a turn four play.
If it was not for all the crazy Convoke themed aggro decks, I would say this guy is certainly playable. But in testing, we have seen a few different Convoke strategies that run GB into the mud.
I feel like these colors need a way to level out before turn 6 before this beast becomes viable.
If it was not for all the crazy Convoke themed aggro decks, I would say this guy is certainly playable. But in testing, we have seen a few different Convoke strategies that run GB into the mud.
Mind sharing with the class? It just seems like there's not much going against him without a proper illustration of what he's up against. As it is, aggro can be somewhat iffy.
If it was not for all the crazy Convoke themed aggro decks, I would say this guy is certainly playable. But in testing, we have seen a few different Convoke strategies that run GB into the mud.
Mind sharing with the class? It just seems like there's not much going against him without a proper illustration of what he's up against. As it is, aggro can be somewhat iffy.
It is not what Garruk himself is up against, it is what the decks in his colors are up against. Obelisk of Urd is very much a reality in aggro decks and if Spear of Heliod was not already snagging games on it's own upon resolution, Obelisk allows them to easily over power cards like Sylvan Caryatid and Courser of Kruphix and Raise the Alarm and a plethora of 1 drop creatures make turn 3 Obilesk a real move. Obilesk is also not a legendary anthem like Spear is, which means multiples can give them muscle in the late game and gives them much more consistency in playing it early on.
The phenomenon that is occurring from what we have been experiencing is that you find yourself in some pretty common awkward spots where you play out Sylvan Caryatid and Courser of Kruphix just to be ran over by a few tokens and an Obelisk and slowing your game down by playing more reactive does not exactly help either because BG does not have a reliable way to get 2 for 1's very easily. Drown in Sorrow is all fine and dandy, but Obelisk can put them out of range as early as turn 3, which leaves you with a sweeper that does not do much. The window for it's application is just too small against hands like these.
Cards like Ajani Steadfast help fuel the fire by loading up 2 rounds of extra anthems.. The curve is aggressive enough to push past 1 for 1 trading relatively easy and is powerful enough to out muscle you in the middle and late game.
I am not saying that something like White Weenie is going to be the face of Standard or anything, but it certainly has enough new and very powerful tools to increase popularity of the deck enough to where it is something you should take into consideration. In fact, it is aggressive enough that I would not be shocked if it ends up being the premier aggro option of the format.
Does this make Garruk, Apex Predator unplayable? Not necessarily. M15 changes a lot of the available card pool and it provides a number of powerful cards for a number of strategies. These power cards are pretty damn good when compared to the lackluster power level of Theros block and you can expect them to make a pretty large impact compared to what we have seen with BOG and JOU releases where the set was still on a much more relative power level as the card pool that was available.
His playability is going to have nothing to do with his mana cost and everything to do with how aggro decks play out and M15 packs a lot of punch for White Weenie and variants. RW Burn even has access to Darksteel Citadel and Shrapnel Blast now, which adds to the amount of pressure that deck can pack to these kinds of decks as well. These are just two scenarios that are not even recognizing the various aggro decks that have been punishing the top tables over the last few weeks. Mono Black, BR Aggro, Mono Red Aggro, and even Mono Blue hitting the tables again.
I'm not 100% sure that Garruk, Apex Predator will see a lot of play in standard, but I definitely think that he's good enough to. There are honestly enough tools in the GB toolbox to deal with most matchups, and Garruk just compliments the hell out of them. I'm going to be looking at putting Garruk, Apex Predator in Junk before Khans comes out, but chances are I'm going to wait until the inevitable Jund colored Sarkhan Vol comes so I can play the Jund list I've been waiting for.
Thanks for bring in those up. Now that you've mention it, turn 4 Garruk, Apex Predator is not as powerful as a turn 3 Obelisk of Urd. It is something that needs a reality check again. I was thinking of In Garruk's Wake possibly to clear it all, but Mutavault still benefits from the artifact. Not to mention that devotions have always find RW a bad MU, with Darksteel Citadel and Shrapnel Blast possibly even worst.
I recall the heady days of Alliances-era Magic, when you had to maindeck enchantment and artifact removal against Stasis. Play Garruk, but mainboard 4 Unravel the Æther. They drop a turn 3 Obelisk of Urd? You drop a turn 3 Nissa, untap 3 forests, and shuffle their artifact back into their deck. Then get your turn 4 Garruk.
I recall the heady days of Alliances-era Magic, when you had to maindeck enchantment and artifact removal against Stasis. Play Garruk, but mainboard 4 Unravel the Æther. They drop a turn 3 Obelisk of Urd? You drop a turn 3 Nissa, untap 3 forests, and shuffle their artifact back into their deck. Then get your turn 4 Garruk.
Or you sit there looking really silly holding it in your other matches game 1.
Magic has come a long way since Stasis, at some point you are going to have to accept that. Running narrow cards in hopes to make Garruk more playable, is not as good as you think.
Hey, whatever the meta demands. If aggro is dominating with Obelisk, and other decks have artifacts or enchantments, run the appropriate hate spell. I mean, people maindeck creature-kill even when blue-white control makes them basically dead. (I mean, I guess you could Ultimate Price a token Elspeth brings out.)
If there aren't enough artifacts or enchantments, then maybe Bile Blight or Drown in Sorrow is the way to go. My point is that the mere existence of aggro decks does not invalidate a 7-mana walker.
Hey, whatever the meta demands. If aggro is dominating with Obelisk, and other decks have artifacts or enchantments, run the appropriate hate spell. I mean, people maindeck creature-kill even when blue-white control makes them basically dead. (I mean, I guess you could Ultimate Price a token Elspeth brings out.)
If there aren't enough artifacts or enchantments, then maybe Bile Blight or Drown in Sorrow is the way to go. My point is that the mere existence of aggro decks does not invalidate a 7-mana walker.
I mean, if you want to look silly holding onto a 7CC walker and cut better cards to run 4 Unravel the AEther, by all means.
I plan on actually winning, and if that means runnign a streamlined deck that does not run Garruk MB, then so be it.
And we have seen people playing maindeck Revoke Existence/Deicide as a 1-of in Standard.
1 =/= 4 and even then those are pretty rare circumstances and running singletons to combat something like 4 Obelisk does not significantly reduce the odds of you getting crushed by it game 1.
I feel as if you are taking what I am saying about a 7CC walker too personal. The reality is that if the meta is too fast for this guy to reasonably see play without compromising the integrity of a solid deck, this guy is better off not being played.
Don't mistake my argument for saying that this walker is unplayable.
I'm with Kamahl in that my first inclination upon seeing the card is that that while absurdly powerful, it's playability hinges on less its cmc and more on outside factors.
1) Relative speed of the format. Most people seem to be misunderstanding this point. Aggro does not invalidate your 7cmc topend, it "invalidates" the archetypes your 7cmc topend is good against which in turn makes for a much less appealing MB card and Garruk does not exactly strike me as a card I want in my board.
2) The viability of GBx/Gx itself. If a GBx shell is not strong enough to be a viable competitive choice in the metagame, then the viability of Garruk or how powerful he is himself is largely irrelevant.
To me Garruk works best in a list not trying to ramp into him but one that can reliably hardcast him anyway, think traditional Rock. GBx has all the tools to take a powerful controlling approach as it's more reactive nature/options allows it to have more inevitability than any other Gx variant. Nissa seems the stronger Walker for Gx Midrange strategies but if you can slot Garruk into an archetype where you can control the pace of the game then Garruk is the ultimate topend, potentially trumping even Elspeth herself.
So, how viable is GBx exactly?
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I'm with Kamahl in that my first inclination upon seeing the card is that that while absurdly powerful, it's playability hinges on less its cmc and more on outside factors.
1) Relative speed of the format. Most people seem to be misunderstanding this point. Aggro does not invalidate your 7cmc topend, it "invalidates" the archetypes your 7cmc topend is good against which in turn makes for a much less appealing MB card and Garruk does not exactly strike me as a card I want in my board.
2) The viability of GBx/Gx itself. If a GBx shell is not strong enough to be a viable competitive choice in the metagame, then the viability of Garruk or how powerful he is himself is largely irrelevant.
To me Garruk works best in a list not trying to ramp into him but one that can reliably hardcast him anyway, think traditional Rock. GBx has all the tools to take a powerful controlling approach as it's more reactive nature/options allows it to have more inevitability than any other Gx variant. Nissa seems the stronger Walker for Gx Midrange strategies but if you can slot Garruk into an archetype where you can control the pace of the game then Garruk is the ultimate topend, potentially trumping even Elspeth herself.
So, how viable is GBx exactly?
Just throw it into black devotion as a 1-2x of, doesn't seem that complicated to me. Gray Merchant is 5cmc and that usually doesn't immediately end the game. Worst case scenario you toss it to pack rat.
Card slots are anything but free and for Mono Bx Devotion to put 1-2 copies in, they would also have to take 1-2 of something out and Mono B is as streamlined a deck as they come. I can only imagine the deck being worse for it but I could very well be wrong.
I doubt it though
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I have no issues with the decks you have made, I just would change one particular card in both instead of playing 4 Overgrown Tomb I personally would play 4 Temple of Malady instead considering with Khans of Torkir coming out in September, RtR block is soon to be phased out of standard. Also, I might change the black/green land to what is available in M15 if there is going to be a rare b/g land.
As dominant as mono black has been, it is almost as plagued by the same dilemma GB is in terms of how fast the format is, and we are seeing this as a true statement even now. Mono Black has been incredibly fortunate that aggro has been largely nonexistent up until recently, which has given it free reign.
As awesome as this Garruk is, he still cost 7 mana at the end of the day, and that does not mean he is unplayable - simply that it translates into time, which you may not have.
I agree completely with Kamahl. Lately we've seen Mono B decks having issues with aggro decks. I feel like if you're going to plan on winning with new Garruk, you have to accept that you will likely lose to aggro decks and you need to depend on other decks beating them before you have to play them. This is of course very dependent on what else comes from M15 and what Khans brings to the table.
Until rotation, Green/Black/X can just run 4x Putrefy in the 75, no? Thus giving them a main-deckable answer to Obelisk that works in other matches, and has the fringe benefit of removing the Whip in mirror matches.
I've also been experimenting with Lotleth Troll as an anti-aggro creature, and I think he could help. Regeneration is live in every match-up, and he's another card low on the curve. If all you do with him is a 2/1 trample regenerate for 2, then he's worth the slot in most matches. He's also another 2 drop, thus increasing the consistency of having cards to stall with/combat aggro right away.
If you're playing Jund, you've also got Anger of the Gods which you'll be able to consistently cast (Caryatid and Mana Confluence do that for you).
Most of this goes out of the window after rotation. And having the ability to be very ready for Obelisk decks doesn't mean that Garruk Apex Predator is worth playing. However, it seems aggro doesn't have anything that the G/B shell can't fend off, for now. As mentioned before though, if aggro chases away the decks Garruk is good against, then playing him is somewhat moot anyway.
What's your reasoning? Seven mana is steep, but reasonable for a control or midrange deck to reach. He's in the same color as Thoughtseize or Duress to preemptively protect him. One resolved, he immediately begins generating Card Advantage and potentially stabilizes against a variety of board states. 5 starting Loyalty is very high and means he won't die to burn, either.
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I heard that these are sold out on scg. I think the card is being a little overhyped, and I always like to look on the bright side of cards. I can see this being a 1 or 2 of in some decks, but I have seen some list running 3 or 4. Even with ramp 7 mana is a lot. Furthermore, most decks with that much ramp want caller of beasts. I still think this card is very cool, and has a ton of potential, especially after rotation, but Im surprised to hear so many people are buying playsets at presale (overpriced) prices.
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If it was not for all the crazy Convoke themed aggro decks, I would say this guy is certainly playable. But in testing, we have seen a few different Convoke strategies that run GB into the mud.
Mind sharing with the class? It just seems like there's not much going against him without a proper illustration of what he's up against. As it is, aggro can be somewhat iffy.
It is not what Garruk himself is up against, it is what the decks in his colors are up against. Obelisk of Urd is very much a reality in aggro decks and if Spear of Heliod was not already snagging games on it's own upon resolution, Obelisk allows them to easily over power cards like Sylvan Caryatid and Courser of Kruphix and Raise the Alarm and a plethora of 1 drop creatures make turn 3 Obilesk a real move. Obilesk is also not a legendary anthem like Spear is, which means multiples can give them muscle in the late game and gives them much more consistency in playing it early on.
The phenomenon that is occurring from what we have been experiencing is that you find yourself in some pretty common awkward spots where you play out Sylvan Caryatid and Courser of Kruphix just to be ran over by a few tokens and an Obelisk and slowing your game down by playing more reactive does not exactly help either because BG does not have a reliable way to get 2 for 1's very easily. Drown in Sorrow is all fine and dandy, but Obelisk can put them out of range as early as turn 3, which leaves you with a sweeper that does not do much. The window for it's application is just too small against hands like these.
Cards like Ajani Steadfast help fuel the fire by loading up 2 rounds of extra anthems.. The curve is aggressive enough to push past 1 for 1 trading relatively easy and is powerful enough to out muscle you in the middle and late game.
I am not saying that something like White Weenie is going to be the face of Standard or anything, but it certainly has enough new and very powerful tools to increase popularity of the deck enough to where it is something you should take into consideration. In fact, it is aggressive enough that I would not be shocked if it ends up being the premier aggro option of the format.
Does this make Garruk, Apex Predator unplayable? Not necessarily. M15 changes a lot of the available card pool and it provides a number of powerful cards for a number of strategies. These power cards are pretty damn good when compared to the lackluster power level of Theros block and you can expect them to make a pretty large impact compared to what we have seen with BOG and JOU releases where the set was still on a much more relative power level as the card pool that was available.
His playability is going to have nothing to do with his mana cost and everything to do with how aggro decks play out and M15 packs a lot of punch for White Weenie and variants. RW Burn even has access to Darksteel Citadel and Shrapnel Blast now, which adds to the amount of pressure that deck can pack to these kinds of decks as well. These are just two scenarios that are not even recognizing the various aggro decks that have been punishing the top tables over the last few weeks. Mono Black, BR Aggro, Mono Red Aggro, and even Mono Blue hitting the tables again.
For obelisk and Spear the answer is Putrefy. Even if they don't have it you can still get a creature. I do agree that aggro is hard to deal with in GBx, however the tools are there. Gaze of Granite, Drown in Sorrow, Ratchet Bomb. I personally play Bug and can't wait to try to plasm capture Garruk into play
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Seriously next level Golgari. Garruk Wildspeaker sees play. Garruk, Primal Hunter sees play. Garruk, Caller of Beasts sees play. I truly believe 5GB is really not a big deal especially around devotions. Mono green splash black will be a thing, now that green has the access to most of the good cards, and splashing black really not a problem with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth reprint without disturbing Nissa's untap Forests ability.
With so many planeswalkers played in standard, he will be getting all the love he needs, killing planeswalkers. In MM's Colossal Gruul, Garruk, Apex Predator takes Xenagos, the Reveler place in creating tokens, Domri Rade in killing dudes and with an advantage of slaughtering planeswalkers.
Having said that, a few GB builds that can be developed along with Garruk in it.
4 Burning-Tree Emissary
4 Courser of Kruphix
4 Elvish Mystic
2 Pharika, God of Affliction
4 Polukranos, World Eater
3 Soul of Zendikar
4 Sylvan Caryatid
2 Voyaging Satyr
4 Garruk, Apex Predator
3 Life's Legacy
3 Nissa, Worldwaker
Lands
12 Forest
4 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
4 Overgrown Tomb
3 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Gb Devotion focuses on explosive ramping strategy with wincon by creating bunch of 3/3 Beast tokens from Soul of Zendikar. Since there are 6 legendary creatures, sacrificing one for Life's Legacy for card draw and able to play the same legendary again. Polukranos gets to monstrous once again.
4 Brain Maggot
4 Courser of Kruphix
4 Eidolon of Blossoms
4 Elvish Mystic
3 Herald of Torment
4 Polukranos, World Eater
4 Sylvan Caryatid
2 Garruk, Apex Predator
1 Liliana Vess
3 Nissa, Worldwaker
4 Thoughtseize
Lands
10 Forest
4 Overgrown Tomb
7 Swamp
2 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
GB Constellation focuses on more consistent play, early turn hand disruption, constantly refills hand and winning by continuous attack.
Modern : RG Titan Shift RG | RG Revolt Zoo RG | RG Ponza RG | RGW Naya Burn RGW
Legacy : RG Belcher RG
Looks like Garruk finally found it's strenght.
If it was not for all the crazy Convoke themed aggro decks, I would say this guy is certainly playable. But in testing, we have seen a few different Convoke strategies that run GB into the mud.
I feel like these colors need a way to level out before turn 6 before this beast becomes viable.
Mind sharing with the class? It just seems like there's not much going against him without a proper illustration of what he's up against. As it is, aggro can be somewhat iffy.
It is not what Garruk himself is up against, it is what the decks in his colors are up against. Obelisk of Urd is very much a reality in aggro decks and if Spear of Heliod was not already snagging games on it's own upon resolution, Obelisk allows them to easily over power cards like Sylvan Caryatid and Courser of Kruphix and Raise the Alarm and a plethora of 1 drop creatures make turn 3 Obilesk a real move. Obilesk is also not a legendary anthem like Spear is, which means multiples can give them muscle in the late game and gives them much more consistency in playing it early on.
The phenomenon that is occurring from what we have been experiencing is that you find yourself in some pretty common awkward spots where you play out Sylvan Caryatid and Courser of Kruphix just to be ran over by a few tokens and an Obelisk and slowing your game down by playing more reactive does not exactly help either because BG does not have a reliable way to get 2 for 1's very easily. Drown in Sorrow is all fine and dandy, but Obelisk can put them out of range as early as turn 3, which leaves you with a sweeper that does not do much. The window for it's application is just too small against hands like these.
Cards like Ajani Steadfast help fuel the fire by loading up 2 rounds of extra anthems.. The curve is aggressive enough to push past 1 for 1 trading relatively easy and is powerful enough to out muscle you in the middle and late game.
I am not saying that something like White Weenie is going to be the face of Standard or anything, but it certainly has enough new and very powerful tools to increase popularity of the deck enough to where it is something you should take into consideration. In fact, it is aggressive enough that I would not be shocked if it ends up being the premier aggro option of the format.
Does this make Garruk, Apex Predator unplayable? Not necessarily. M15 changes a lot of the available card pool and it provides a number of powerful cards for a number of strategies. These power cards are pretty damn good when compared to the lackluster power level of Theros block and you can expect them to make a pretty large impact compared to what we have seen with BOG and JOU releases where the set was still on a much more relative power level as the card pool that was available.
His playability is going to have nothing to do with his mana cost and everything to do with how aggro decks play out and M15 packs a lot of punch for White Weenie and variants. RW Burn even has access to Darksteel Citadel and Shrapnel Blast now, which adds to the amount of pressure that deck can pack to these kinds of decks as well. These are just two scenarios that are not even recognizing the various aggro decks that have been punishing the top tables over the last few weeks. Mono Black, BR Aggro, Mono Red Aggro, and even Mono Blue hitting the tables again.
Modern : RG Titan Shift RG | RG Revolt Zoo RG | RG Ponza RG | RGW Naya Burn RGW
Legacy : RG Belcher RG
Or you sit there looking really silly holding it in your other matches game 1.
Magic has come a long way since Stasis, at some point you are going to have to accept that. Running narrow cards in hopes to make Garruk more playable, is not as good as you think.
If there aren't enough artifacts or enchantments, then maybe Bile Blight or Drown in Sorrow is the way to go. My point is that the mere existence of aggro decks does not invalidate a 7-mana walker.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
I mean, if you want to look silly holding onto a 7CC walker and cut better cards to run 4 Unravel the AEther, by all means.
I plan on actually winning, and if that means runnign a streamlined deck that does not run Garruk MB, then so be it.
1 =/= 4 and even then those are pretty rare circumstances and running singletons to combat something like 4 Obelisk does not significantly reduce the odds of you getting crushed by it game 1.
I feel as if you are taking what I am saying about a 7CC walker too personal. The reality is that if the meta is too fast for this guy to reasonably see play without compromising the integrity of a solid deck, this guy is better off not being played.
Don't mistake my argument for saying that this walker is unplayable.
4x Crypt Ghast (fragile, but whatever)
4x Sign In Blood
2-3x Corrupt
4x Squelching Leeches
4x Overgrown Tomb
4x Llanowar Wastes
1-2x Urborg
3-4x Garruk Apex Hunter
1-2x In Garruk's Wake
1-2x Bad Liliana
1-2x Golgari Charm
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The only thing I'm wondering about this kind of jank deck is, is it better just to ignore swamps and put mana dorks in? Where is my Mutilate?..
1) Relative speed of the format. Most people seem to be misunderstanding this point. Aggro does not invalidate your 7cmc topend, it "invalidates" the archetypes your 7cmc topend is good against which in turn makes for a much less appealing MB card and Garruk does not exactly strike me as a card I want in my board.
2) The viability of GBx/Gx itself. If a GBx shell is not strong enough to be a viable competitive choice in the metagame, then the viability of Garruk or how powerful he is himself is largely irrelevant.
To me Garruk works best in a list not trying to ramp into him but one that can reliably hardcast him anyway, think traditional Rock. GBx has all the tools to take a powerful controlling approach as it's more reactive nature/options allows it to have more inevitability than any other Gx variant. Nissa seems the stronger Walker for Gx Midrange strategies but if you can slot Garruk into an archetype where you can control the pace of the game then Garruk is the ultimate topend, potentially trumping even Elspeth herself.
So, how viable is GBx exactly?
Just throw it into black devotion as a 1-2x of, doesn't seem that complicated to me. Gray Merchant is 5cmc and that usually doesn't immediately end the game. Worst case scenario you toss it to pack rat.
Card slots are anything but free and for Mono Bx Devotion to put 1-2 copies in, they would also have to take 1-2 of something out and Mono B is as streamlined a deck as they come. I can only imagine the deck being worse for it but I could very well be wrong.
I doubt it though
As awesome as this Garruk is, he still cost 7 mana at the end of the day, and that does not mean he is unplayable - simply that it translates into time, which you may not have.
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I've also been experimenting with Lotleth Troll as an anti-aggro creature, and I think he could help. Regeneration is live in every match-up, and he's another card low on the curve. If all you do with him is a 2/1 trample regenerate for 2, then he's worth the slot in most matches. He's also another 2 drop, thus increasing the consistency of having cards to stall with/combat aggro right away.
If you're playing Jund, you've also got Anger of the Gods which you'll be able to consistently cast (Caryatid and Mana Confluence do that for you).
Most of this goes out of the window after rotation. And having the ability to be very ready for Obelisk decks doesn't mean that Garruk Apex Predator is worth playing. However, it seems aggro doesn't have anything that the G/B shell can't fend off, for now. As mentioned before though, if aggro chases away the decks Garruk is good against, then playing him is somewhat moot anyway.
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What's your reasoning? Seven mana is steep, but reasonable for a control or midrange deck to reach. He's in the same color as Thoughtseize or Duress to preemptively protect him. One resolved, he immediately begins generating Card Advantage and potentially stabilizes against a variety of board states. 5 starting Loyalty is very high and means he won't die to burn, either.
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For obelisk and Spear the answer is Putrefy. Even if they don't have it you can still get a creature. I do agree that aggro is hard to deal with in GBx, however the tools are there. Gaze of Granite, Drown in Sorrow, Ratchet Bomb. I personally play Bug and can't wait to try to plasm capture Garruk into play