I think Brontodon is better in unpowered lists (especially if they're also without Talisman/Signets). You might find yourself lacking for targets and the bigger body is nice to have. In powered lists with full suites of rocks, the Manglehorn variants played much better, since you almost always have a target so you get both the body AND the shatter effect.
Reclaimer has been cool in helping support Depths, but Goose is a monster of a card, and I like it a lot more.
I like Faerie Conclave more than Fall From Favor, personally.
Sometimes you're in a situation where you don't want to pitch a spell and you want to keep the gas. Other times, you certainly want to pitch a spell that might not have value for a while to accelerate your tempo. It depends entirely on your matchup and your hand. In that case, maybe you don't need the Mox. It might also be right to use it (I'd probably pitch the E1 for a T1 Geist). But there are far more scenarios where the additional tempo is really valuable than situations where you don't want to pitch a card.
There's nothing wrong with MTM, it's a great card. We just don't need it as much as we did when it was first printed because the access to great 4cc creatures for creature-heavy decks is so much better than it was a number of years ago.
I found that my creature-heavy decks were loaded for bear at the 4cc slot, but that a lot of midrange/control/archetype decks had a slot available for a bigger threat they had synergy with. Particularly decks featuring Recruiter/Alesha/'Lark, etc. But I have an unnatural love for Trike (even more after watching it do well in Vintage lately) and am always actively finding excuses to maindeck it. But when I do, I'm always happy I did.
Ingot Chewer has been a pretty solid monster for us at 540. It's a good out to early power, and a reasonable creature when you cast it. Even at 5-mana, sometimes a 3/3 body is just randomly good.
Tooth and Nail is a better card than it used to be, IMO. Both the quality of the creature targets and the quality of the ramp cards has improved, making it an easier card to cast with a greater reward. It just does some absurd stuff. In a deck that also runs things like Channel and Eureka, the concentration of fat targets is usually pretty high; you can often cast it for 7 mana, and get two nasty monsters.
Brimaz is the nutz. It's the best 3cc white creature by a fair margin, IMO.
Swiftspear loses some value without the spells matters package, but it's a decent aggro body until we're saturated with Zurgos, lol.
Courser of Kruphix. It's a good creature, and will usually snag you an extra land or two over the course of your curve. Card advantage, lifegain and a massive roadblock. And it can be targeted by Enlightened Tutor.
Konfusius and wtwlf have convinced me to give Primal Command another run in my cube. I think Mayor of Avabruck is going to be the cut for it unless somebody has a better suggestion.
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Reclaimer has been cool in helping support Depths, but Goose is a monster of a card, and I like it a lot more.
I like Faerie Conclave more than Fall From Favor, personally.
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Ingot Chewer has been a pretty solid monster for us at 540. It's a good out to early power, and a reasonable creature when you cast it. Even at 5-mana, sometimes a 3/3 body is just randomly good.
Tooth and Nail is a better card than it used to be, IMO. Both the quality of the creature targets and the quality of the ramp cards has improved, making it an easier card to cast with a greater reward. It just does some absurd stuff. In a deck that also runs things like Channel and Eureka, the concentration of fat targets is usually pretty high; you can often cast it for 7 mana, and get two nasty monsters.
Brimaz is the nutz. It's the best 3cc white creature by a fair margin, IMO.
Swiftspear loses some value without the spells matters package, but it's a decent aggro body until we're saturated with Zurgos, lol.
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