MTG Salvation

New Delver, calling it now.

No, it is not "The New Delver" because it is in Innistrad. It is "The New Delver" because it is an undercosted beater that lives in a deck with lots of instants and sorceries.

One of my big disappointments with Innistrad block was that Lovecraft themes weren't really used. This definitely fits the bill. I love it.

Lovecraftian horror is based much more around cosmic entities of impossible to comprehend nature. I'd hardly compare a big dumb monster with no other abilities that fit the "cosmic", or "impossible to comprehend" descriptions, or even real flavor to an actual Lovecraft inspired creature, like Emrakul. This does not fit the bill.

With that said, I really like this creature. Modern playable for sure.

Innistrad was never a Lovecraftian block. It was gothic horror. And even this thing is closer to something more along the lines of The Thing, only not a shapeshifter. Just a giant squid.

i'm not sure its fast enough for legacy, but i could be wrong.

This card is insane.

Love this card, going to grab a play set for my budget legacy.

This is going to make the UR Prowess deck a lot stronger.

Bouncing all other creatures sounds like pretty good evasion to me and this is a deck with 4 slip through space. Everything else the deck plays either is cheap and has haste, turns into a planeswalker, or has an ETB.

No it won't because it will bounce all your other creatures when it flips, and the Horror has no evasion.

I don't understand the hype on this card for standard.
Four instant or sorcery is an awful lot when those aren't advancing your board.
For this to get value, those spells have to be a) fast or b) good.
Fast doesn't really exist in standard.
They don't give us cheap cantrips anymore.
Now, you could be counting on playing removal spells to flip him. But your opponent can just wait to play creatures until they draw removal for your Thing, and then those removal spells sit dead in your hand and you can't even flip him.
Too much hype.
As for Modern, this guy is too slow, unless you are going full on Storm-count to flip him. But then he eats a Path before flipping and where did that get you?

Who's hyping it for Standard? All I see is people talking about its applications on Modern. Also, it's certainly not too slow for Modern. You're going to see this guy in decks like Blue Moon and Delver mostly. They've got all of the tools to flip this by turn four if they play it turn two. They've got the means to protect it. And not every deck runs Path to Exile. You can't be thinking with that mindset. Oh, dies to removal, must be crap! No, that isn't how things in Magic work. You know what else dies to Path to Exile? EVERY single Eldrazi in every variation of Eldrazi decks that are dominating Modern. If it was such a simple thing as to say, "Don't worry about that giant, threatening creature, just Path it!", then there wouldn't be any talk about Eldrazi getting banned this April. For that matter, even decks that do run hard removal, they've also got to have it in hand. I run four Paths in my deck in Modern. Do you think that translates to me having a Path in hand at absolutely every situation I might need one?

Also, you're arguing that your opponent could just wait on playing Creatures to negate this guy's transformation effect? Are you kidding? If your opponent is that scared of it that they simply wouldn't play creatures for several turns potentially, you should have already won the game based off of sheer tempo value alone. If anything, that is a GOOD reason why you'd want to play this thing. But no, in real games, no smart player is going to just hold back on their creatures, losing out on board state and falling behind just because of this.