So I guess with way that they're revealing things in plot order it's safe to assume the thing that swings things back in Bolas's favor after they start annhilating Eternals with Parhelion and the power of friendship is that it turns out the Big Pig is the real MF deal?
Oh man, this card is awful. You need a high density of creatures to play it (or else it's probably going to brick), and the payoff is still terrible. You pay two mana and a card upfront to do absolutely nothing, and then you pay another card in addition to gobs more mana just to maybe get a creature, and a random one at that. Sure, you can use it every turn, but you're discarding a card every time you do so too. That means the cards you're discarding are going to have to be really bad in order to ever make this thing worthwhile. You'd basically have to have nothing else going on for you.
I could maybe see this in a Yeva deck where you're already green, creature heavy, and never want to tap out, but the folks that think this is good need to take their rose colored glasses off for a moment. War of the Spark is full of awesome cards. This is not one of them.
Well, no, it’s not awful. Far from it, actually. I’d say “pretty good”. Ditching anything in favor of something else, with only the amount of mana you have to spend limiting it is pretty sweet tech. Turn late game lands into creatures? Dude, sign me up. There are lots of times I “don’t have anything else to do” with a hand full of useless crap, like extra lands, irrelevant removal, high-cost cards.
I’d suggest throwing on a pair of your own specs before whipping around words like “awful”, because that’s hardly the case most of the time.
I agree. It's basically adding 1G cycling to every card plus letting you cast a creature with flash.
I don't fully disagree with your sentiment, but one of the very points being made is that sometimes you're ditching something for nothing because you can whiff with this card.
That flavor text is awful. Card might be alright in limited, but considering that we probably won't be getting wolves or werewolves in this set (aside ffrom the one spoiled here) ... I dunno.
Which is weird in Gruul colors.
C'mon.
This was obviously printed for Omniscience Draft on Arena.
That was the first card that sprang to mind for me as well.
Also, that's quite a stacked mana dork.
We definitely need more dwarf mutant citizens though.
I don't fully disagree with your sentiment, but one of the very points being made is that sometimes you're ditching something for nothing because you can whiff with this card.
HOOOOREEE SHET!
And just so this isn't spam, that is some seriously Bolas-y stuff to do. Can't wait to see what kind of cards they'll get.
I definitely want to go for the flavor win of equipping him with Blackblade Reforged then plussing him to give himself lifelink.