Free my boy !!

  • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 hour ago

    That can’t be him in the photo. I saw him rescuing a kitten out of a tree on the other side of the country that day, said he was on his way to volunteer at a homeless shelter.

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        It’s really not. As a 1/1 with no other abilities it does nothing to improve your board state. It’s only value is being repeatable removal, and it can be pinged off the board for nothing. You also have to wait a turn to fire it, which gives your opponent(s) a whole turn to deal with it.

        It’s a good card, arguably a seriously underappreciated one, but it’s telling that it’s a rare that goes for $2 and has an inclusion rate of just 0.32% on EDHREC.

        It does combo hilariously with Thornbite Staff though.

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          I don’t play magic, how does that work? Moving the creature to the graveyard, and the staff effect, are both instant? So if you get the combo up, you basically clear the board of any power 4+ creatures?

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        Well, it is from Urza’s Saga originally, so that follows. It’s a 1/1 for three mana, that’s its drawback. Compare to one of the original game’s cards, Royal Assassin.

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          Royal Assassin was like my favorite card back in the day, playing in school when 4th edition was new. I had a couple of them and animate dead. Good times.

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          I remember the first time someone ever played royal assassin against me I thought it was so cheap and then the dude busted out visara the dreadful and I nearly crapped myself lol.

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        No, it’s pretty bad. It’s slow and being a 1/1 creature in Magic is the equivalent of being a redshirt in Star Trek.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    * Aleggedly

    Sidenote: I’d love a shirt with his silhouette on it with that word below. Like the ones with the ostrich they did for Letterkenny