We used it in my old 540 cube way back in 2009 or 2010.
It was pretty good at the time. It's a decent way to finish people off as green and can handle flyers. If you're running a larger cube and looking for that type of effect, it's certainly not bad.
I agree with Colby. It's a decent card, provides green some reach (and planeswalker answers too, incidentally) and it's often a lopsided effect because of the few number of flying creatures in green. I don't cube it myself, but it's often a card I find myself using in my deck when it crops up in other cubes I draft.
I think a more interesting effect might be Ifh-Biff Efreet. It's one of green's fairly rare decently-efficient fliers, and it can also funnel green mana into Hurricane effects, mowing down smaller fliers repeatedly (or larger fliers once), taking down Planeswalkers, and adding reach by chipping at their life total. The only thing to watch out for is that your opponent can also use the ability, so if they are also running green, they can kill it by simply tapping a few forests.
(Trivia: The Revised printing of Serendib Efreet accidentally used the frame and art of Ifh-Biff instead of the one it was supposed to)
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I've had very positive result with Ifh-Biff Efreet in the past, and it's often just on the edge of re-inclusion for me. There's certainly no other creature like it in green, and probably never will be.
I've been close to re-including Hurricane on many occasions as well. It's a good card, and an effect that I miss.
Yes there is. There's the easier to cast and activate squallmonger.
I'm aware of Squallmonger, but I was refering to Ifh-Biff Efreet being a solid flyer in combination with its damage "reach" & anti-flying ability. By modern design philosophies, the printing of another 3/3 green flyer for 4 seems extremely unlikely, let alone one with such a combination of abilities.
Hurricane
A player in my group brought this card up.
Green has always had problems with flying creatures in the cube, since we usually don't run stuff like silklash spider.
This card not only deals with flyers, it gives the green aggro or ramp deck something that green doesn't have - reach.
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It was pretty good at the time. It's a decent way to finish people off as green and can handle flyers. If you're running a larger cube and looking for that type of effect, it's certainly not bad.
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I've been close to re-including Hurricane on many occasions as well. It's a good card, and an effect that I miss.
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I'm aware of Squallmonger, but I was refering to Ifh-Biff Efreet being a solid flyer in combination with its damage "reach" & anti-flying ability. By modern design philosophies, the printing of another 3/3 green flyer for 4 seems extremely unlikely, let alone one with such a combination of abilities.
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