This is a pretty silly card, makes sense it's an acorn stamp even though it doesn't seem to do anything blatantly rules-breaking.
The baseline is a harder-to-cast clone, which is decent but not cube-worthy by itself. However, if the board has multiple strong creatures, casting this for 6 or more gets you a lot of value. It's especially devastating in a midrange mirror, where you have a good chance to copy multiple expensive creatures, though much weaker against aggro (with only small creatures) or control (with few to no creatures).
Simic has tough competition though, especially in another, essentially XXGU-cost spell in Hydroid Krasis. You'd need to be copying better versions of Inspiring Overseer to have the same sort of scaling. There are plenty stronger creatures in cube, but how consistently you can copy them will determine the value of this card.
Gonna test this for funsies, it may not be good enough or a rules headache. But it’s at least close!
I also don’t like clones in general (feel bad for the person who invested resources into doing something big).. but the unique fun situations overcomes that.
This card looks really fun! I've always been a fan of EldrazifyingtogetherBrisela in cube, and It Came From Planet Glurg captures that feeling all in one card slot. In most board states, oozing together the two best creatures on the board to make a way better creature seems powerful, but the cost is fair -- you expect your 6 mana cube creatures to take over the game. At 8-12 mana this is even sillier. I wonder what the most busted combination of two cube creatures is (that haven't already ended the game by both being on the board)? Something with deathtouch plus something with trample? I also like that it's an Ooze for the Biogenic Ooze tribal dream.
That said, there are a few fail cases. Maybe you are way behind against aggro and you need to run Glurg out on 4 mana to survive, in which case it's still a good card but you don't get to do the fun thing. Clones aren't great against boardwipe control decks that sometimes don't have creatures in play. Heavy token decks may only have little vanilla dorks to copy. Thus there's a deckbuilding pressure to put this in a deck full of your own other good (but nonlegendary!) creatures.
I think this creature could be printed as non-acorn if it had a single defined name and left off "names, art, and so on.".....?
It’s me! I’m one of the folks trying to live the Ooze tribal dream! I really like this, but as melt said, I think it’s best if you’re relying on making a bigger monster out of your own threats. As mentioned already, when behind against Aggro or against board wipes, this can end up a dead card, so it’s not very reliable.
The ceiling is super nuts though, and I love it. I’m a “live the dream” designer. This will go straight into my Unspiracy module.
This is a pretty silly card, makes sense it's an acorn stamp even though it doesn't seem to do anything blatantly rules-breaking.
The baseline is a harder-to-cast clone, which is decent but not cube-worthy by itself. However, if the board has multiple strong creatures, casting this for 6 or more gets you a lot of value. It's especially devastating in a midrange mirror, where you have a good chance to copy multiple expensive creatures, though much weaker against aggro (with only small creatures) or control (with few to no creatures).
Simic has tough competition though, especially in another, essentially XXGU-cost spell in Hydroid Krasis. You'd need to be copying better versions of Inspiring Overseer to have the same sort of scaling. There are plenty stronger creatures in cube, but how consistently you can copy them will determine the value of this card.
Fun card for sure.
On spoiled card wishlisting and 'should-have-had'-isms:
I'm an idiot, I thought there was only one X. It's a lot more fair at XX. I'll edit the post.
Gonna test this for funsies, it may not be good enough or a rules headache. But it’s at least close!
I also don’t like clones in general (feel bad for the person who invested resources into doing something big).. but the unique fun situations overcomes that.
I’ll probably test until the novelty wears off
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That said, there are a few fail cases. Maybe you are way behind against aggro and you need to run Glurg out on 4 mana to survive, in which case it's still a good card but you don't get to do the fun thing. Clones aren't great against boardwipe control decks that sometimes don't have creatures in play. Heavy token decks may only have little vanilla dorks to copy. Thus there's a deckbuilding pressure to put this in a deck full of your own other good (but nonlegendary!) creatures.
I think this creature could be printed as non-acorn if it had a single defined name and left off "names, art, and so on.".....?
The ceiling is super nuts though, and I love it. I’m a “live the dream” designer. This will go straight into my Unspiracy module.
Un-Spiracy Module - http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/63204
Utility Land Module - http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/53258