You kids these days... not happy unless it's an 8/8 flyer for 3 mana. Then someone would say, "Eh, dies to removal. Should have hexproof." This guy is good, and will see play.
so... The old poison creatures dealt damage to opponents AND added 1/more poison counters, but now they ONLY add poison counters? Seems pretty bad, since mixing infect/non-infect creatures seems pretty pointless. "Oh, you're at 2 life, have no poison counters, and all I have out is this 2/2 infect guy... well guess I'll swing. 2 counters." >(
I just can't help but feel that this is one of the most over-hyped cards ever. Sure, it nets you +2 cards. But they're lands... when you have SIX already. Might as well say "Put two enchantments into play that give all your creatures +0/+0". A Shivan Dragon can outright win the game if you untap after casting, and it is (was) a 25 cent card... Magic economy... sigh...
Mahamoti Djinn. 5/6 flyer for 4UU. Goliath Sphinx. 8/7 flyer for ONE MORE MANA. Don't see what the huge problem is. Kids these days, just aren't happy unless it's game-win for 3 mana or less. Unless it's BSA, then it's $50.
Mahamoti Djinn. 5/6 flyer for 4UU. Goliath Sphinx. 8/7 flyer for 5UU ONE MORE MANA. Don't see what the huge problem is. Kids these days, just aren't happy unless it's game-win for 3 mana or less. Unless it's BSA, then it's $50.
Couple things to think about w/ this... the land doesn't etbf tapped, so it effectively costs 1 mana if you get to play a land. Also, the land doesn't have to be in hand when you cast it. You can cantrip into a land and drop it. If you're in topdeck mode and rip this, you don't have to chuck it across the room, cause you can cycle it and at that point 2 mana shouldn't be a big deal. I don't think this card should be dismissed as chaff so quickly.
A mistake I see constantly when people are trying to figure out if a new card is good/bad, over/under-hyped, etc... is that they consider the card in a complete vacuum, sitting there in play/on stack, and then imagine it performing it's optimal function in a game who's conditions call for it. A couple important factors are not considered when doing this:
1. Tapping mana sucks. Pretend you tapped out to play this, and aren't in stellar position. Was it worth it? Could there be a better use for the mana? Are you looking at your hand and thinking, "crap, I really hope that was ok, cause I could've held back for instant X or dropped creature Y, and this isn't doing THAT much for me atm..."
2. You could've drawn something else. This one kills newer limited players all the time. ANY CARD EVER PRINTED can be argued as good if X Y Z P conditions are met. Fewer conditions required, the better. How often are you going to be ripping this thing off the top of your pile and thinking, "Dammit, why aren't you something else? You are worthless to me atm!"
3. Good/bad are relative terms, subject to change, especially in standard. Who knows what future standard will be like... agro-dominated? control? combo? Cards that could be outstanding sometimes never see the light of day because they just don't have any business in the environment.
Jace? Options make him unlikely to be useless. Personal howling mine. He's at the worst a cantrip w/ selection. 4 mana, no immediate big effect on the game state... Not blue Jesus or anything, but I can def see him getting some use if the format allows for some set-up. UW control or something.
Bounty of the hunt, too! Attack, I'm tapped out, wait... I have a combat trick. All my elves get +3/+3 till eot. Haha... Regarding the art. Haha JACKED elf. "I crush you with tricep." Classic.
This guy is inferior to every elf-lord printed unless you spend GG3 or more on him. 5 mana 3/3s just aren't efficient and traditionally simply don't make the cut. Unrealistic dreams of having a 5/5 worldcaller that gives all 19 of your elves +4/+4 will remain unrealized in the actual gameplay arena. I'm not trolling, and I don't even hate elves, but this card just makes me go, "blah". And I wonder if there's gonna be creatures/lands in the set that don't get smothered. Haha.
This just in: He doesn't brainstorm. Or unsummon. Those are both instant, and unsummon sees virtually no play even at instant speed where it can potentially net a card with tactical use. Decent card, seems reasonably balanced (except for that TWELVE garbage- wth? They try his ultimate at TEN and it was OP in future league?)... but hardly SICK or NASTY or BROKEN etc...
1. Tapping mana sucks. Pretend you tapped out to play this, and aren't in stellar position. Was it worth it? Could there be a better use for the mana? Are you looking at your hand and thinking, "crap, I really hope that was ok, cause I could've held back for instant X or dropped creature Y, and this isn't doing THAT much for me atm..."
2. You could've drawn something else. This one kills newer limited players all the time. ANY CARD EVER PRINTED can be argued as good if X Y Z P conditions are met. Fewer conditions required, the better. How often are you going to be ripping this thing off the top of your pile and thinking, "Dammit, why aren't you something else? You are worthless to me atm!"
3. Good/bad are relative terms, subject to change, especially in standard. Who knows what future standard will be like... agro-dominated? control? combo? Cards that could be outstanding sometimes never see the light of day because they just don't have any business in the environment.
Jace? Options make him unlikely to be useless. Personal howling mine. He's at the worst a cantrip w/ selection. 4 mana, no immediate big effect on the game state... Not blue Jesus or anything, but I can def see him getting some use if the format allows for some set-up. UW control or something.