Kaervek, the Spiteful 2BB
Legendary Creature- Human Warlock
Other creatures get -1/-1. "Defy me and I will burn the flesh from your bones. Betray me and I will steal the breath from your lungs."
3/2
I was expecting more, but this is still a pretty decent card, I guess.
Great this card doesn't reflect the old Kaervek the Merciless in any way.....well done wizards....
I mean his head is literally on fire and he uses fire magic. Yet no where on his card do you get the sense of that.
Does look like they made the card before thinkning who could it be and just slapped his name on it and went "Done, good job everyone!"
In other news, Ascendant Evincar is just better, cooler abilities and slightly bigger butt for more.
This set just looks so bland.
EDIT: I know its a core set but don't forget, the good Sorin, titans and Omniscience all came from coresets. Same one too I think.
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Wow, how...underwhelming. Is this the best they could do with a major villain? A simple 3/2 for 2BB with a static ability? No Menace? Lifelink? Anything? Also, that art looks more BR than Monoblack, what about making it 2BR instead and giving it a pinging ability on top, other colors get ability salads for the same CMC, oh wait, Black can too.
yikes, this is worse than Kaervek the Merciless so are subira and kaervek part of a cycle? with nimba being and the leaked radha that hasn't been spoiled yet, seems weird
Huh. Not what I expected, and disappointing considering the pedigree (Kaervek the Merciless), lore, and the sweet art. But the card is also probably playable in multiple formats, too. I wouldn't make it a commander, but it sure does hose a lot of decks.
Huh. Not what I expected, and disappointing considering the pedigree (Kaervek the Merciless), lore, and the sweet art. But the card is also probably playable in multiple formats, too. I wouldn't make it a commander, but it sure does hose a lot of decks.
Lazy design. Make this 3BB and to give -2/-2 to YOUR OPPONENT’S creatures if you’re going to do this.
Well that would just be lazy design and overpowered.
It wouldn’t be overpowered. With all of the removal in Standard, doing 2 to this would be no problem. Compare this to Massacre Girl, who is world’s better with small lore implications. Jolrael was done the right way.
Either way, we can agree this is not a good Magic card and I hope I do not pull one in my box.
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Feels like he is missing something, even if that something is minor. I would have expected him to be red black. Also he feels like he is missing an evergreen ability like menace or deathtouch, or maybe they should have made him a 4/4... idk. Feels like its missing half.
I don't think I've been this disappointed in a legendary card in years. It won't even be the worst card in the set, but it'll surely be the one I have the most hard feelings about.
With Niambi being spoiled today, safe to say Kaervek got the short end of designs among the Visions/Mirage legends. The others have a good chunk of text and explore abilities like Mangara drawing cards for white and Jolreal dipping mono-green into UG space. Kaervek just needs something more, a keyword or some payoff to his static. As is, he just feels like an uncommon legend and not something ppl will want to open.
With Niambi being spoiled today, safe to say Kaervek got the short end of designs among the Visions/Mirage legends. The others have a good chunk of text and explore abilities like Mangara drawing cards for white and Jolreal dipping mono-green into UG space. Kaervek just needs something more, a keyword or some payoff to his static. As is, he just feels like an uncommon legend and not something ppl will want to open.
Huh. Not what I expected, and disappointing considering the pedigree (Kaervek the Merciless), lore, and the sweet art. But the card is also probably playable in multiple formats, too. I wouldn't make it a commander, but it sure does hose a lot of decks.
Lazy design. Make this 3BB and to give -2/-2 to YOUR OPPONENT’S creatures if you’re going to do this.
Well that would just be lazy design and overpowered.
It wouldn’t be overpowered. With all of the removal in Standard, doing 2 to this would be no problem. Compare this to Massacre Girl, who is world’s better with small lore implications. Jolrael was done the right way.
Either way, we can agree this is not a good Magic card and I hope I do not pull one in my box.
I realize a 3/2 is quite vulnerable but a permanent -2/-2 (and only to opponents!) is very oppressive, particularly in limited, so I really don't see anything like that getting printed at 5 mana.
I don't think this is not a good magic card. The more I think about it the more I kinda like it, despite it being very simplistic.
I do think they should have done more with him though, and I wonder if this is a case where there was a last minute change that required their original design for Kaervek to be scrapped, or a monoblack spot needed to be filled, something like that.
Magic players: "Making lords only affect your own creatures is dumbing down the game. It no longer forces you to think strategically! It's almost as bad as the removal of manaburn."
Also Magic players: "A card that weakens not only your enemy's creatures but also your own? Urgh that's so lazy. Clearly adding additional words like "your opponents control" would have shown much more creativity."
Having all that said, I feel it's the wrong card for Kaervec. Should have been some (minor) phyrexian legend or whatever. However, I do feel like it has a certain simplistic quirkiness to it like legends from the Legends set. Whether that is a good or bad thing depends on the size of your nostalgia goggles I suppose, but I think it's cute because it feels like an old era card.
Legendary Creature- Human Warlock
Other creatures get -1/-1.
"Defy me and I will burn the flesh from your bones. Betray me and I will steal the breath from your lungs."
3/2
I was expecting more, but this is still a pretty decent card, I guess.
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Could have something like a creature dies and ping 1 damage , that would work nicely with the -1/-1 part.
But oh well, its a card that wins some matchups single handily, but if it doesnt it shrinks your own guys too.
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Lazy design. Make this 3BB and to give -2/-2 to YOUR OPPONENT’S creatures if you’re going to do this.
2/5.
I mean his head is literally on fire and he uses fire magic. Yet no where on his card do you get the sense of that.
Does look like they made the card before thinkning who could it be and just slapped his name on it and went "Done, good job everyone!"
In other news, Ascendant Evincar is just better, cooler abilities and slightly bigger butt for more.
This set just looks so bland.
EDIT: I know its a core set but don't forget, the good Sorin, titans and Omniscience all came from coresets. Same one too I think.
"Earth!" shouts Nissa
"Fire!" shouts Chandra
"Wind!" shouts Jace
"Water!" shouts Kiora
"Heart!" shouts Gideon
"Go Multiverse!" shouts everyone combined
"By your powers combined, I am Captain Multiverse!" shouts Captain Multiverse
Thank heavens we already have a fantastic Kaervek the Merciless
Who ever thought of the abilties knows nothing about kaervek heck he's even missing red
Heck they might just have reprinted Karvek the Merciless with new art and called it a day, new Kaervek is basically an uncommon card at rare
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Well that would just be lazy design and overpowered.
It wouldn’t be overpowered. With all of the removal in Standard, doing 2 to this would be no problem. Compare this to Massacre Girl, who is world’s better with small lore implications. Jolrael was done the right way.
Either way, we can agree this is not a good Magic card and I hope I do not pull one in my box.
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this ability combined with the ability to ping when something dies
This aint your girlfriends meta! This is a man's meta! TURBO META.
Ascendant Evincar is way more spiteful than this guy. Spiteful? Naw/. Bitter? Yeah
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I realize a 3/2 is quite vulnerable but a permanent -2/-2 (and only to opponents!) is very oppressive, particularly in limited, so I really don't see anything like that getting printed at 5 mana.
I don't think this is not a good magic card. The more I think about it the more I kinda like it, despite it being very simplistic.
I do think they should have done more with him though, and I wonder if this is a case where there was a last minute change that required their original design for Kaervek to be scrapped, or a monoblack spot needed to be filled, something like that.
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Also Magic players: "A card that weakens not only your enemy's creatures but also your own? Urgh that's so lazy. Clearly adding additional words like "your opponents control" would have shown much more creativity."
Having all that said, I feel it's the wrong card for Kaervec. Should have been some (minor) phyrexian legend or whatever. However, I do feel like it has a certain simplistic quirkiness to it like legends from the Legends set. Whether that is a good or bad thing depends on the size of your nostalgia goggles I suppose, but I think it's cute because it feels like an old era card.