With that art and name, at least this confirms the Eldrazi can swim (and don't just materialize out of the water or something like that).
This is going to look beautiful in foil.
Not particularly positive on its constructed potential, 1/1 deathtouch ingest still seems simply too slow, especially for two mana and a costly five mana activated ability isn't going to help in that regard.
Now tied with Nest Invader for the cheapest Eldrazi.
Ingest might be slow but one could argue that because this card have deathtouch maybe it´s easier to deal combat damage to the player because the opponent wont have their creature die to a 1/1
The problem with defining this format by what is "fun" is that everyone seems to define fun as what they don't lose to. If you keep losing to easily answered cards, that means you should improve your deck. If you don't want to improve your deck, then you should come to peace with the idea that you are going to lose because you chose to not interact with better strategies.
Ingest might be slow but one could argue that because this card have deathtouch maybe it´s easier to deal combat damage to the player because the opponent wont have their creature die to a 1/1
The problem is Ingest is slower than the 1/1 (it's more likely damage will win first), so it's effectively slower than Typhoid Rats since it's a turn late. Damage also "stacks" better since other Eldrazi have higher power and I don't see the Ingest count being as high as that (Only Ulamog itself has effectively Ingest 20 for now). I don't consider the 5 mana ability as much of a factor.
Not to mention now that we have 1/1 Eldrazi Scion instead of 0/1 Eldrazi Spawn, I'll expect more "damage divided by number of creatures" and "low damage dealt to each creature" spells around.
I'm very unimpressed by this card. Unless the exiled cards become very relevant this seems like a strictly worse Azure Mage; greater colored mana requirements, activated ability costs one more and most importantly one less power. And Azure Mage was even an uncommon. If this card sees any play at all in constructed it will because the processor cards are very powerful and not because of the powerlevel of this card as it is really very weak.
If ingest is going to be relevant, it is for sure going to be because of the Eldrazi Processors and similiar effects. I don't know though if those will be good enough to warrant a creature as slow as this. I wouldn't completely write activated ability off though. In a control deck, this has to be dealt with if your opponent does not want you to start drawing a bunch of cards later on. That in combination to hold a creature off early on might be enough to make this card see a littl ebit of play.
That's true. I still don't see the Ingest synergy working out for this particular Eldrazi since it's the same size as the Scion Tokens the Processors make, so effectively it perishes along with the tokens when Rolling Thunder effects start happening.
The format might be slower when BFZ comes in, so you're right, I guess I shouldn't rule out the draw ability, although I'm still quite skeptical of it (since past similar costly draw abilities seldom work out, and a bonus Ingest isn't really that much of an incentive).
Ignore this post - I apparently couldn't edit the previous one for some time for some unknown reason, then forgot about it while typing the reply and ended up posting the second quote-reply in a new post.
Least the art is good. This is such a terrible card. Ingest and devoid are honestly do nothing so a 1/1 death touch with a 5cmc draw just doesn't do it for me, ESPECIALLY in a UB shell.
Strictly worse Baleful Strix. Looks like we didn't get the whole, awful "Strictly worse" cycle that started in Origins.
It's not strictly worse, because if an opponent has 1 card left in their library and you have the mana to activate it, this card is going to win you the game.
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Creature - Eldrazi Drone
Devoid
Deathtouch
Ingest
3UB: Draw a card. Each opponent exiles the top card of his or her library.
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Sweet new card
Also an Ojutai's Command target which probably is relevant in standard.
Me too. I still like how it combos well with Ingest and hopefully we get more Eldrazies that does something with the exile zone
This is going to look beautiful in foil.
Not particularly positive on its constructed potential, 1/1 deathtouch ingest still seems simply too slow, especially for two mana and a costly five mana activated ability isn't going to help in that regard.
Now tied with Nest Invader for the cheapest Eldrazi.
What about Mist Intruder and Forerunner of Slaughter?
The problem is Ingest is slower than the 1/1 (it's more likely damage will win first), so it's effectively slower than Typhoid Rats since it's a turn late. Damage also "stacks" better since other Eldrazi have higher power and I don't see the Ingest count being as high as that (Only Ulamog itself has effectively Ingest 20 for now). I don't consider the 5 mana ability as much of a factor.
Not to mention now that we have 1/1 Eldrazi Scion instead of 0/1 Eldrazi Spawn, I'll expect more "damage divided by number of creatures" and "low damage dealt to each creature" spells around.
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... are cards I forgot like I always do with commons and uncommons during spoiler season
Yeah, they're all tied. This new card is first rare to be tie though.
That's true. I still don't see the Ingest synergy working out for this particular Eldrazi since it's the same size as the Scion Tokens the Processors make, so effectively it perishes along with the tokens when Rolling Thunder effects start happening.
The format might be slower when BFZ comes in, so you're right, I guess I shouldn't rule out the draw ability, although I'm still quite skeptical of it (since past similar costly draw abilities seldom work out, and a bonus Ingest isn't really that much of an incentive).
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I thought it was uncommon without looking at the rarity. This being rare it could have been a 2/2.
It's not strictly worse, because if an opponent has 1 card left in their library and you have the mana to activate it, this card is going to win you the game.
BUWGRChilds PlayGRWUB
BUWGR Highlander GRWUB
UBSquee's Shapeshifting PetBU
BW Multiplayer Control WB
RG Changeling GR
UR Mana FlareRU
UMerfolkU
B MBMC B
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Maybe we'll also get something like Training Grounds in this block, though I don't think it's likely
Typhoid Rats would be a mythic in this format.
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