MTG Salvation

Sure, there are ways to make the ping not as punishing [Lifelink, et al], but a 4/4 for 4 with nothing else to it, just seems like a waste. it's closest comparison point is Bull Elephant or Duskwood Boars. Now we have Ferocious Zheng and Rumbling Baloth.

Indestructible creatures be damned... I use this guy are creature control in my Homicidal Mutant Bunny deck with Haunted Crossroads and Infernal Genesis and come high CC creature.
Also fun with creatures with "when ~ dies" effects- like Festering Goblin and/or Vile Urchin.

This guy could have been part of a cycle like the Penumbral cycle; such a cycle would have been flavorful for this block... but of course the meta wouldn't make the rare variant viable...

Surprised this isn't a rare. considering it can one-shot Eldrazi and some choice Planeswalkers

I think that's the second longest title print on an actual card [not counting the Longest card name in magic the gathering just to mess with the R&D in Unglued, or whatever it's title was.]

You remember Torment? Ya, no one remembers that card...

12 mana flash back... yah, if you want to make this card playable, Instant speed and halving the flashback... that, and make it MYTHIC

Better than Mind Rot because it forces a random discard? Hymn to Tourach is still king.

a good wall for mid game for taking out some bigger threats, rather than deter weenies

i'd have laughed if R&D said Screw it and made an entire Cycle of Morphling Clones.

I like the Panorama's. early game- fetch, late game- still provides mana. unlike the Fetchlands, and dare i say "better" than Terramorphic Expanse/Untamed Wilds.

Serra Avatar + Sanguine Bond + Chorus = instant KO

I don't find it surprising that Tribal Lords in current sets don't grant landwalk any more. This compared to Elvish Chancellor, Zombie Lord to Lord of the Undead, etc

I have a Legacy-based W/R Land-destruction/lock deck that uses Limited Resources to lock my opponent out of playing lands. I used discard outlets like Seismic Assault to get lands in my graveyard [after the lock down], Thran Foundry to empty out my opponent's graveyard after destroying their lands, and Planar Birth to get my lands back. I could post a deck list, if you'd like. don't think it's budget...

Look for discard outlets to keep your hand open, and being able to use your lands even when you can't play them- or sac' outlets to replace your lands.
You could go weenie, and use some creatures that have discard/sacrifice effects- Fallow Wurm, Harvest Wurm, Rogue Elephant, Scythe Tiger. Ayula's Influence can "turn" lands into Bears.
Argothian Wurm is an old school beater that would wreck face after the LE Lockdown.

I liked the "recruiter" cycle... Kavu Howler has a nice place in my kavu deck. Ringleader and Sylvan Messenger would be overpowered if cheaper- and no one cares about Merfolk or whatever that white one fetched.
>edit< Enlistment Officer fetched Soldiers. this was before Mirrodin shifted to the Race/Class system... so yea, nobody really cared about Tribal Soldier back in the day.