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Quote from BlackWaltz3 »Honestly the biggest drawback to Purphoros is that there is no redundancy to the effect he offers. Having only one copy of this in your deck when he is the linchpin for the strategy is a bummer. I'd kill to have a playable mini-Purphoros (1 damage) or another cubeable variant of Purphoros. I like this direction for red much much more than the Wildfire archtype which I've never really cared for.
Quote from TheRealEbase131 »Quote from rantipole »It's a great card, but it just doesn't make my top 5 Selesnya cards. I rank Militant, Knight of Autumn, Finks, Pridemage, and Chant above it (although, you likely don't need both Chant and Pridemage in a small to middle sized cube). If you push a lands matter theme, Knight of the Reliquary is more important. So while VoR is awesome, I can see lots of cubes just not having the space for it. Cheers, rant I am surprised that Dryad Militant is so highly regarded. To me it is a bland 2/1 1-drop that is outclassed by any other 1 drop that would be ran in the decks that might want it (white or green).
Quote from rantipole »It's a great card, but it just doesn't make my top 5 Selesnya cards. I rank Militant, Knight of Autumn, Finks, Pridemage, and Chant above it (although, you likely don't need both Chant and Pridemage in a small to middle sized cube). If you push a lands matter theme, Knight of the Reliquary is more important. So while VoR is awesome, I can see lots of cubes just not having the space for it. Cheers, rant
Quote from Marl Karx »Quote from opterown »Thanks for the writeup, wtwlf123! Always look forward to these articles. At 360 powered, I'm personally testing out Nadir Kraken, Phoenix of Ash and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove. Sad to hear that the Kraken was too mana-intensive in testing! I'm testing Phoenix of Ash since I don't really want all 5 Rabblemasters at 360. I'm also hoping that the Dryad can further enable the lands deck, but it's probably a pipe dream at current time. Agree that the rest of the set is pretty mediocre, though. I mean, there are multiple combo cards that are, um, not mediocre.
Quote from opterown »Thanks for the writeup, wtwlf123! Always look forward to these articles. At 360 powered, I'm personally testing out Nadir Kraken, Phoenix of Ash and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove. Sad to hear that the Kraken was too mana-intensive in testing! I'm testing Phoenix of Ash since I don't really want all 5 Rabblemasters at 360. I'm also hoping that the Dryad can further enable the lands deck, but it's probably a pipe dream at current time. Agree that the rest of the set is pretty mediocre, though.
Quote from Zetsu_Sensei »Quote from opterown »I really really want the lands deck to be a thing in cube, it seems like sweet synergy. This/Oracle of Mul Daya/Fastbond as redundant effects, and Life from the Loam/Wrenn and Six/Crucible of Worlds/Ramunap Excavator seems like the tits. This does very little outside of that deck, though. We do support the deck and this new card seems crazy good in it. Can't beleive it's real. Last thing we had as similar was Wayward Swordtooth. The RIX Dino looks silly next to it.
Quote from opterown »I really really want the lands deck to be a thing in cube, it seems like sweet synergy. This/Oracle of Mul Daya/Fastbond as redundant effects, and Life from the Loam/Wrenn and Six/Crucible of Worlds/Ramunap Excavator seems like the tits. This does very little outside of that deck, though.