Fleet Swallower - 5UU - R
Creature - Fish
Whenever ~ attacks, target player puts the top half of his or her libary into his or her graveyard, rounded up.
6/6
Kinda sucks. I preferred the 3UU version that was a 4/6. This was supposed to replace Startled Awake in my mill deck, this is just plain disappointing.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
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Simic or Temur ramp, get this out onto the battlefield by turn 5, then use it--this is still a viable strategy even if the casting cost is more than originally expected. Definitely a game-winner in Sealed/Limited, and probably Standard, as well. Attack with this + Fraying Sanity is still an auto-win.
I'm gonna be honest, anyone who thought we were getting this effect at the same CMC as Nemesis of Reason or Traumatize itself was kidding themselves.
That said, it's a bummer this is a Fish and not Leviathan/Kraken. What up with that?
I agree. There's power creep, but I thought having this guy at 5CMC (with the smaller body) would be absurd. Though, if it were, it would be a contender for a cube spot. I still think Nemesis is better for that format, though, as the static 10 mill hurts quite more in a format where your deck is usually 40 cards.
at 5 this looked like a somewhat reasonable win option especially in a god pharaos gift deck.
But now, its a lot less playable, can still be reanimated as a 4/4 zombie, but if that is plan A , its not really worth the effort.
Sadly they dont want to have playable competitive mill decks, they just print like ~3 cards in total per set and thats about it.
Well, do you understand that BLUE creature even without upsides (and without downsides as well) with P/T 6/6 for 5 mana is absolutely above the curve?
People running off the blurry leak were under the impression this was 4/6 rather than 6/6. Still would have been pretty bonkers for 5, but at least on PT alone it wouldn't have been substantially above-curve. I mean we recently got Guardian of Tazeem at that cost - 4/5, but with two upsides. (And people still didn't use it!)
Well, do you understand that BLUE creature even without upsides (and without downsides as well) with P/T 6/6 for 5 mana is absolutely above the curve?
Obvisiously this wasnt "guessed" as a 6/6 from the blurry spoiler sheet.
It was guessed to be 4/6 for 3UU , which would have made this card a "real" constructed contender with all the other 5 mana bombs (hello Glory Bringer , Avacyn, etc.).
Even in the power creep version it wasnt a insane bomb right away, but it would have been a very real viable card for constructed.
As it is, we have a junk rare that might just have a tiny slim chance to see play, if this gets reanimated with God Pharaos gift or something along that line (but then, the format is fairly hostile for that, so ... ).
Fleet Swallower - 5UU - R
Creature - Fish
Whenever ~ attacks, target player puts the top half of his or her libary into his or her graveyard, rounded up.
6/6
Kinda sucks. I preferred the 3UU version that was a 4/6. This was supposed to replace Startled Awake in my mill deck, this is just plain disappointing.
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It could still be fun to try out in The Mimeoplasm,
but it won't be making mill any more competitive a strategy.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
By the way, don't underestimate Traumatize effects followed by Consuming Aberration or Sewer Nemesis in Phenax EDH.
But now, its a lot less playable, can still be reanimated as a 4/4 zombie, but if that is plan A , its not really worth the effort.
Sadly they dont want to have playable competitive mill decks, they just print like ~3 cards in total per set and thats about it.
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Yeah, no, this is a casual all star. Most players don't give two s***s about competitive Magic and are frankly quite turned off by it.
Again, playing for cute/lols, not tournament consistency.
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Modern BUMill and Bant Spirits.
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But I like that has a Ulamog, the ceaseless hunger esc attack trigger
That said, it's a bummer this is a Fish and not Leviathan/Kraken. What up with that?
I know, there is something fishy about that. It would have been worse if it was Merfolk.
Multiplayer Decks- Memnarch - Animar, Soul of Elements - Zur, the Enchanter - Atraxa, Praetors' Voice - Food Chain Tazri - Teysa Karlov
Modern BUMill and Bant Spirits.
Thank you Xenphire for the signature!
Well, do you understand that BLUE creature even without upsides (and without downsides as well) with P/T 6/6 for 5 mana is absolutely above the curve?
I agree. There's power creep, but I thought having this guy at 5CMC (with the smaller body) would be absurd. Though, if it were, it would be a contender for a cube spot. I still think Nemesis is better for that format, though, as the static 10 mill hurts quite more in a format where your deck is usually 40 cards.
People running off the blurry leak were under the impression this was 4/6 rather than 6/6. Still would have been pretty bonkers for 5, but at least on PT alone it wouldn't have been substantially above-curve. I mean we recently got Guardian of Tazeem at that cost - 4/5, but with two upsides. (And people still didn't use it!)
Obvisiously this wasnt "guessed" as a 6/6 from the blurry spoiler sheet.
It was guessed to be 4/6 for 3UU , which would have made this card a "real" constructed contender with all the other 5 mana bombs (hello Glory Bringer , Avacyn, etc.).
Even in the power creep version it wasnt a insane bomb right away, but it would have been a very real viable card for constructed.
As it is, we have a junk rare that might just have a tiny slim chance to see play, if this gets reanimated with God Pharaos gift or something along that line (but then, the format is fairly hostile for that, so ... ).
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Yeah... I agree.