MTG Salvation

Looter Il Core part 2.

WUT! That is SICK. Skulk < Shadow for sure, but the ability to add threats to the board while improving your card quality more than makes up for that shortcoming. I'm definitely going to test this out.

Seems quite strong. The baseline is pretty close to playable (though it's easier to block skulkers than you think), and that last ability offers you a surprisingly efficient amount of board presence for a blue card. Reanimator in particular is going to love this, since it prefers to discard creatures anyway.

Wow! I love this! Pumped.

This thing would need to be a 1/3 for me to get really excited. My blue decks are low on creatures (maybe 25%) and they are rarely ones I want to discard. And there are lots of tokens and elves that can get in front of this thing.

Now if this thing gave me a creature for discarding land, or a colorless card, or it was flying. Maybe

If this guy connects once you can get 4 power over 2 bodies and a loot effect. For 2 mana that is great. This creature will definitely be a lightning rod for removal.

Um, wow. That seems particularly strong. That might kick Looter il-Kor out of the cube. I don't want to push a blue aggro strategy so I don't want to wedge too many low cost beaters into the cube but that one might be way too good to pass up.

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Not to forget: You may generate those tokens also if other effects cause you to discard creatures, so any looter, discard outlet, Liliana of the Veil suddenly becomes a token generation machine. Nice. Any experiences with "1 power skulk" in practice?

Damn i didnt even see that. this thing is an auto include for me!

I missed the discard interaction as well. This guy turns every loot/discard/wheel effect into a combo. Love it.

OMG what is going to happen to my Disney's Aria altered Merfolk Looter?! This card seems just so good. My heart is broken...

Oh man. I'm intrigued to see how well skulk can perform.

Less consistent than Looter il-Kor, but the upside is huge if you can connect for damage or pair it with a discard outlet (thinking Liliana of the Veil, Oona's Prowler, Pack Rat, etc). Seems like it'd be great in a UB/Reanimator deck but might be difficult to make it succeed elsewhere. Probably going to pick one up to test.

This card is doing for me the impression that Pack Rat did in Return to Ravnica's limited. Will test it in my cube for sure.

Also, I really want to go off with this and Oona's Prowler.

Love it!! The fact it generates tokens from any discard source makes it very powerful. Will definitely include in any case.

Any experiences with "1 power skulk" in practice?

Only from playing Startled Awake and Farbog Revenant in SOI Limited, but it's quite a bit less reliable than Shadow. In cube, Wharf Infiltrator will get brick walled by 1/1 token generators, mana dorks, and walls, so I see it getting boarded out in quite a few matchups where you'd rather just have a Merfolk Looter. This seems like a really cool card, so I'd like to test it, but I think it would be a mistake to cut Looter il-Kor for this because Wharf Infiltrator looks a lot less reliable.

Loving this totally. Any discard, if a creature card, will trigger this. You don't need to discard using this guy's effect. I want a playset already!

Quote from Spike Rogue »

Any experiences with "1 power skulk" in practice?

Only from playing Startled Awake and Farbog Revenant in SOI Limited, but it's quite a bit less reliable than Shadow. In cube, Wharf Infiltrator will get brick walled by 1/1 token generators, mana dorks, and walls, so I see it getting boarded out in quite a few matchups where you'd rather just have a Merfolk Looter. This seems like a really cool cards, so I'd like to test it, but I think it would be a mistake to cut Looter il-Kor for this because Wharf Infiltrator looks a lot less reliable.

If you're counting on Wharf Infiltrator to get through, you're not thinking big enough. This card will win games without attacking once, I'm confident of that.

I don't like that Skulk is not only less reliable than Shadow but has horrible synergy with Swords. It does look like a great card.
I wouldn't cut Looter for it... I guess I'll wait for actual testing results.

Goodbye Harbinger of the Tides, I hardly knew ye.

Quote from Blal »

Goodbye Harbinger of the Tides, I hardly knew ye.

My thoughts exactly.

This a very cool card that I am excited to test. Unfortunately, it will be FAR less consistent than looter-il-kor.

In my 465 cube, there are 39 creatures that can block it (as opposed to 3 for looter) and 26 cards that make 1/1 tokens (although some of those are pretty pricey). However, the upside over looter when this DOES connect is substantial, and the upside of rewarding other discard too is real. This will definitely be tested, although I don't think over looter. I might just have 2 looters in cube.

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Love it!! The fact it generates tokens from any discard source makes it very powerful. Will definitely include in any case.

Cool. I missed this in the wording.

I was gonna test but a bit skeptical , now I'm excited

Skulk in limited was much worse than I thought it was going to be. Although limited is more creature heavy.

Survival of the fittest has a new friend!

Do NOT cut Looter il-Kor for this. Run both!

I initially missed the general discard token making clause, too. Thought it was a decent card, but this makes it pretty good. Definitely going to run this.