MTG Salvation

Hexdrinker - G
Creature - ?Snake
Level up - 1
Level 0 - 2/1
Level 3-7 - 4/4, Protection from instants
Level 8+ - 6/6, Protection from everything

Green aggro card, anyone?

Wow. If even level cards returns it means that really everything is possibile in this set. A mini-progenitus? I love it. too bad for the weak tribe.

It's a 2/1 for 1 with upside. If you run green aggro, you include this, no question.

Grows faster than Kessig Prowler, too.

I run green aggro so this is a 150% autoinclude. Probably replacing Jungle Lion

Great card ... too bad it is a small set mythic. But what is not to like?

Yes please!

This is probably worth running even if you don’t run green aggro. It seems like a solid midrange and ramp card too. This is SICK. Autoinclude for me.

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This is probably worth running even if you don’t run green aggro. It seems like a solid midrange and ramp card too. This is SICK. Autoinclude for me.

Yeah I was thinking of this as a 3G 4/4 with Protection from Instants that you can curve T5 into a mini-Progenitus - not bad!

I have a feeling this card will look amazing in foil.

So based on the spoilers we've seen so far it looks like there is a cycle of "pushed" efficient mythic rare creatures. Seasoned Pyromancer in red, Ranger Captain of Eos in white, and Hexdrinker in green. I could see Urza, Lord High Artificer being the blue mythic in this category. Long story short... I'm excited to see the black one and I hope it's awesome.

Autoinclude replcing Kessig Prowler most likely.

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Autoinclude replcing Kessig Prowler most likely.

I’ve been patiently waiting for more green 1-drops like Kessig Prowler to draw more people into green aggro. I think this card is a fantastic complement to Kessig and would hope to find a cut elsewhere.

This card is a goddamn monster. Some decks can’t ever beat a 6/6 Progenitus, and if you just play this on turn 4 you get to make a 4/4 semi-Hexproof that threatens to become that next turn. And the activation being colorless is insane: you can splash this! It’s like Untamed Kavu except instead of every mode being underwhelming, every mode is awesome. This is the best green 1-drop outside of mana dorks, and I’d play it in all cubes.

FWIW, Untamed Kavu has been a solid workhorse for me. I don't think he survives my MH1 update but I've been happy with him.

And yea, this creature is WAY better than the Kavu.

Even if you couldn't split the level up costs, this is better than half or more of the green four drops I play at 720. As is it beats them all.
I like how this card fits into all flavors of green decks - aggro if you support it, midrange and all the way to hard ramp. I can see hard ramp decks play it as a finisher against control decks.

I absolutely love this card, and it is insane that they are printing it.

“Green aggro” has shaped up exactly how I had hoped several years ago. It has the unique identity of being an aggressive midrange deck where your 1-drops get large and you curve into 5s instead of 4s. This card gives us just about the density of 1-drops we need for this type of aggressive deck. By the way we are very happy to not run Jungle Lion in our Cube...

I think this card is messed up and will be easily including it even without supporting green agro.
Though in a non beat down ramp strategy it’s merely fine.

The green figure of destiny that doesn’t require a mono colour mana base and is probably better than figure of destiny too heh

Fantastic card is fantastic. What cube doesn't want this?

Cheers,
rant

This card is absolutely outrageous. Even just G 2/1 // 8G 6/6 Progenitus would be strong, and this is so much better (though not strictly, since the progrnitus mode is vulnerable to shocks for a turn). Obviously nutso if you support G aggro, but an instant staple even if you don’t at all.

I used to have Kessig Prowler in. I took it out to focus green more on ramp, but this is exactly the kind of card I've been hoping for for a long time. I'm strongly considering putting Kessig Prowler, Pelt Collector, Warden of the First Tree, Experiment One and Hexdrinker back in.

When you all build green aggro decks, what do they usually look like? Do you still run elves in the same deck, or do they get pushed out by the 1-drop aggro cards?

Depends but aggro green can definitely use a couple elves. One of the reasons I really like the new Domri is that he turns your mana dorks into relevant attackers. My aggro green decks are almost always Gruul.

I'd be curious to hear other cuber's experience with green aggro and mana elves. It's kind of a funky archetype.

Our green aggro decks absolutely have elves. Consider these decks as aggressive midrange strategies that curve out at 5 and utilize the elf bodies and extra mana in a variety of ways to provide lategame power.

I play aggressive midrange decks that feature elves, but that's a different deck than aggro. I don't typically play Jungle Lions and mana dorks in the same deck.

I don’t cube green aggro anymore, but that’s not going to stop me from slamming this. It’s a 3G 4/4 with protection from instants that eventually grows into an unstoppable threat. You don’t need to have green aggro in your cube to play this monster of a card. It’s good in Ramp, aggressive midrange, you name it.

I have no aggro 2/1s to cut for this card, but I’ll find another cut.

yea id run this in an agressive R/G or mid W/G deck.
This thing is just nuts. 2/1 for G is AUTO