Argentum Masticore 5
Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Masticore
First strike, protection from multicolored
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Argentum Masticore unless you discard a card. When you discard a card this way, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value less than or equal to the mana value of the discarded card.
5/5
Okay, so hear me out. I know that this probably won't make most cubes, but this honestly seems like a decent card.
The body is decent in combat even if it doesn't have evasion, and protection from multicolored has certainly helped Stonecoil Serpent make an impression.
The ability is the real spice here. Similar to most other masticores, you need to choose between discarding a card or saccing the creature, however this time you get to kill something according to the mana value of what you discarded.
A few notes:
Less than or equal to means that discarding higher MV means higher flexibility of targets. While discarding 4+ drops is still highly unlikely, since the cards themselves are likely to be more valuable, there are still plenty of 3>=mv cards that can be conditional and situational, so getting an alternative for them is a great idea. Worst case, discarding a land to kill a token seems fair.
Nonland permanent in colorless means that you can break color pie restrictions. Blue likes this most since it has the most trouble dealing with permanents that were allowed to resolve, but black, red and green also have trouble dealing with specific permanent types.
Four-shotting a player while killing their stuff is decent for a colorless 5 drop! What do you think?
I don't see the appeal since this lacks both raw power or useful synergy for me to be interested in it. Protection from multicolored is better than no defensive ability at all, but it's not enough for a 5 mana Baneslayer Angel that also gets hit by Shatter / Disenchant effects.
Finally a playable Masticore! I like this card a lot.
Free Vindicate every upkeep, hell yeah, is that even a drawback? Ok there are some restrictions to the Vindicate, it's tied to CMC and doesn't hit lands, but still. Affecting the board repetitively for 0 mana is really good.
Note that the Vindicate effect is attached to the discard effect, so you can't get two-for-one'd like with Razormane Masticore.
I think this card is going to be good in unpowered cubes. I'll certainly try it in mine!
The card is a few years too late. Literally a decade ago molten-tailed masticore is a VERY popular option in cube. Now, I think it pass its time. This card doesn't ramp up enough to match the power creep to be worth discard a card requirement.
Argentum Masticore
5
Artifact Creature - Phyrexian Masticore
First strike, protection from multicolored
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Argentum Masticore unless you discard a card. When you discard a card this way, destroy target nonland permanent an opponent controls with mana value less than or equal to the mana value of the discarded card.
5/5
Okay, so hear me out. I know that this probably won't make most cubes, but this honestly seems like a decent card.
The body is decent in combat even if it doesn't have evasion, and protection from multicolored has certainly helped Stonecoil Serpent make an impression.
The ability is the real spice here. Similar to most other masticores, you need to choose between discarding a card or saccing the creature, however this time you get to kill something according to the mana value of what you discarded.
A few notes:
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Free Vindicate every upkeep, hell yeah, is that even a drawback? Ok there are some restrictions to the Vindicate, it's tied to CMC and doesn't hit lands, but still. Affecting the board repetitively for 0 mana is really good.
Note that the Vindicate effect is attached to the discard effect, so you can't get two-for-one'd like with Razormane Masticore.
I think this card is going to be good in unpowered cubes. I'll certainly try it in mine!
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