MTG Salvation

Old One Eye 5G
Legendary Creature - Tyrannid (R)
Trample
Other creatures you control have trample.
When One Old Eye enters the battlefield, create a 5/5 green Tyrannid creature token.
Fast Healing - At the beginning of your precombat main phase, you may discard two cards. If you do, return Old One Eye from your graveyard to your hand.
6/6

Opinions about UB aside, this card is ridiculous. 11 trampling power for 5G, blink synergy, and recursion. This card answers the question what if Rampaging Baloths was easier to splash, just provided the additional creature without hoops to jump through, provided trample to that creature as well, made that creature bigger, and let's throw recursion in there too because why not?

Do you like Survival of the Fittest, Life from the Loam and Animate Dead shenanigans? Then I have a card for you! Personally, I am OK with UB when they make cards that MTG players actually want to play with. I will cube this card.

welp. I wasn't planning on adding Universes Beyond cards but this looks so good.

And easier to cast than Baloths to boot!

I also like that this doesn't scream 40k to me. Yeah, it has the set symbol and I'm guessing Tyranid is a 40k thing, but this could very easily be a random green mythic from modern horizons 2 too. Easy test.

Looks pretty decent. I might try this over Carnage Tyrant

I like this card a lot. It's a commander deck card?

Seems good. Just a ton of power for 6 mana. And discarding two cards is hardly a big deal when you get two creatures.

It's a shame I don't care to support UB. Guess I'll be skipping it.

I’m torn on this. I feel like my design philosophy up until this point would slam this on power level and utility, I just don’t find it interesting. The UB doesn’t necessarily deter me, but I’m not a 40k fan so I’m not *excited* to throw that IP into my cube. I’m not sure what about this is so mundane to me, but it just feels like beef in an already beef-for-beefs-sake color.

I may end up testing it, but this isn’t the kind of card that tickles my curator fancy.

Edit: more thoughts.

I’m looking at cuts, and for me in green 6 drops it’s Prime Time, Carnage Tyrant, and Selvala’s Stampede. Titan is a staple for me, and exactly the kind of card I really enjoy playing with. Tyrant has an almost Thrun-like resilience and inevitability (I run Thrun still) which I think green really needs in some matchups, and I happily support. Stampede has a floor of two mana dorks, but a higher ceiling than One Eye, going well with a Channel deck that is trying to get eldrazi out.

This card has massive close-out potential, second only to best-case Stampede in my list. Against counter/spot removal, second only to Carnage Tyrant. As far as utility, it can be abused in a few different ways I support, being second only in utility to Primeval Titan. It has great recovery from board wipe, probably the best out of all.

It’s ultimately up to me and my choice on including this card won’t make or break my draft environment, it’s just a card that’s made me think a lot harder than I ever have about what exactly I want and why.

That's a lot of trampling power for the cost, and the ability to come back is certainly not flavor text. I'll keep a close eye on this one.

Will this have a nonfoil version? Important for my “no shiny things allowed” Cube…

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Will this have a nonfoil version? Important for my “no shiny things allowed” Cube…

Yes, only the Collector Edition decks come in Surge Foil. The regular decks are non-foil.

think the same, Tyranids also looks a lot like sliver in my opinion...

Clearly a strong card. I was not that hyped to includes some 40K cards. But I always loved this Tyranid characters, and overall fits good enough for me flavor wise (unlike a space marine).

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TI'll keep a close eye on this one.

I am pretty sure you meant "a close one eye".

Yeah I'm into it.
Fills that beautiful 6 cmc roll of solid when cheated in (can win games alone) and also reasonably hardcastable.

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Clearly a strong card. I was not that hyped to includes some 40K cards. But I always loved this Tyranid characters, and overall fits good enough for me flavor wise (unlike a space marine).

Quote from wtwlf123 »

TI'll keep a close eye on this one.

I am pretty sure you meant "a close one eye".

hahaha, very clever BM

Looks pretty amazing in terms of P/T ratio across two bodies. Global trample is a nice bonus when it comes down. You really want to exile this since the recursion is quite simple to fulfil. I'll definitely find room for this guy.

I wanna play him. I think the recursive ability is easy to underestimate. If you start a turn with 6 mana & only 1 card and are willing to bin your new draw, you can get him back. Or, bin him early for reanimator OR pick him back up once you have 6 mana. It's a very exciting ability to put on a 6/6 + 5/5, as weird as those stats are.

My problem is Kogla, The Titan Ape is a pet card of mine and performs well, and I'm already struggling for a slot for Titan of Industry.

EDIT: I don't care for 40k, but I honestly love Old One Eye's character design: totemic behemoth that's died a dozen times but keeps coming back, scars and all. I am happy to showcase at least 1 40k card, considering it's a mechanically unique design. Strange this isn't 4GG though; it's just so much beef!

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My problem is Kogla, The Titan Ape is a pet card of mine and performs well, and I'm already struggling for a slot for Titan of Industry.

I also play Kogla and like the ape, but it is probably the right cut for this card.

I have played Kogla over Prime Time for quite a while. In practice killing a creature on ETB and then blowing up artifacts/enchantments has been more valuable than getting lots of extra lands unless my deck includes multiple manlands. I don't think I'll cut Ape for this, I'll find something else.

I wasn't super high on this to start, but it's just so many stats and the recursion ability should win some games. Not necessarily super useful, but Squee, Goblin Nabob/Master of Death have seen play for their interaction with Survival of the Fittest/Fauna Shaman, and while this dodges the card advantage aspect of that, this can convert any two non-creature cards in your hand into a creature to discard without costing mana.

Also nice that you can Entomb/Unmarked Grave for this to discard a better fatty from your hand for reanimator lines, and sometimes when you're forced to discard off schedule before you draw or tutor for fatties with Wheel of Fortune/Collective Brutality/Seasoned Pyromancer/Survival of the Fittest/etc you can discard this and if a better fatty rolls around on the backend you can switch them from the graveyard for no mana.

I wish this worked a little better in Golgari reanimator shells with Oath of Druids, or was a little more synergistic on curve with Wildfire, but beggars can't be choosers and this looks super exciting. I'm guessing it will probably replace Titan of Industry to test, but gonna have to check in with the group on that one.

Oof. In addition to everything that's already been said, it's one hell of a card to pair with Esika's Chariot. Farewell Carnage Tyrant, it's been a real one.

Card has overperformed my expectations.
It’s not a high pick, but I don’t think I’ve ever cut it from a green ramp deck.

The bodies are huge on defense and powerful on offense. You can blink it for good value, the fast healing ability graveyard ability comes up more than I thought. Killing it with black or red removal isn’t effective.

There’s been a revolving door of primeval Titan wannabe 6 drops for years now but old one eye has emphatically taken that crown. It will be tough to dethrone.