Too bad Wild Pair is no longer in Std. Great synergy, both in getting Gigantomancer into play in the first place, and then effectively tutoring out huge fatties via Gigantomancer by activating with the trigger on the stack.
Is this now the record for the most expensive 1/1 weenie of all time?
Might see play if you can cheat it in with piper.... other than that,
way too expensive. I'll just play dragonmaster outcast for 1 and get free 5/5's.
Interesting card though. And revilark will love this in extended.
Could be broken....maybe.....
8 mana for a 1/1 that turns itself into a 7/7 for 1 mana every time you want to is not ridiculous.
And if you've got ridiculous amounts of mana (think Elvish Archdruid and Joraga Treespeakers w/ random elves), he comes down, turns your untapped ones into 7/7 and the swing the turn you play him.
This is a card with real potential to see constructed play.
Art...wtf is a giant MANTIS doing there and why is he upside down, apparently falling out the mothership from Independence day?
Ugh. Is this confirmed as real?
I don't understand this set at all.
One word: Slow.
What's not to get about this from this set? Pay a bunch of mana, make all your dudes huge and win? Sounds like it's in the best to be in for it's type of card.
I like the art. They are standing in the empty space in the middle of those open hedrons, one on the bottom and the mantis is hanging down from the top one. Very original.
It's a Scornful Egotist without morph. The cost is crazy but the ability is actually really cool making any number of creatures into 7/7 monstrosities for only 1 mana a piece is something than can win games quickly. Fun for casual.
I know man, the following turn you just pay X where X is the number of mana dorks you got and unleash a horde of these at your opponent and also don't forget the Overrun.
Why hate on this card? Oh yeah you hate his cost but then again.... he is in the color green and 8 mana is easy to get.
T1: Forest, Llanowar Elves
T2: Forest, Elvish Archdruid
T3: Forest, Garruk Wildspeaker, untap 2 lands with Garruk's + ability, cast Joraga Treespeaker and pump once
T4: Forest, Cast Gigantomancer and leave G mana open just in case to save it with Vines of Vastwood, use Garruk's +1 ability
T5: Forest... Haha! Overrunning for 33 Trampling Damage with mana dorks
If my guess is correct the other rare in the deck this card will be in will be Gigantoform.
Eh I thought about archdruid and even Llanowar, Arbor, etc. I guess my biggest problem is 1/1. I know there is removal for everything but if I drop 8 mana, it shouldn't be able to die by a pinger before it gets to use its ability. I guess as with everything it's situational, but if I see cunning sparkmage, this guy will stay in my hand indefinitely. Good point though. We'll see how he plays out.
I am pretty sure you can sneak this guy in a summoning trap/Elvish piper kind of deck, and basically swing for 28 with 4 elves in play, etc. Would not be very difficult to do.
The more I think of this card, the more broken I believe it is. I would never play a deck that would need to hard-cast him, as that would leave me way too vulnerable to removal and tempo loss, but yeah, sneak this sucker in, and just swing with everything
I'm reserving judgment. The premise is good. Phenomenal, IMHO. However, he is definitely fragile. No one can dispute that, and with a heavy, heavy investment, to boot. I want to see, however, what manner of cheat methods are coming. Because him out on turn 8 (Assuming no ramp, a complete vacuum, but at least so if he sees the Lightning clouds gather, he can buff himself) isn't all that great. But in by an Elvish Piper, or some other effect...not bad.
He also has some decent synergy with Ooze Garden, I find...
This card is deceivingly good. It's just amazing in limited with all the Eldrazi Spawn tokens you'll have in play that are all of a sudden 7/7's. Basically this set's Mirror Entity in regards to limited. Might be the best bomb in the entire set.
If you have that many spawn tokens, why wasn't this already in play turns ago?
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Strange ability. Strange beyond marginal..just what?
Art...wtf is a giant MANTIS doing there and why is he upside down, apparently falling out the mothership from Independence day?
Ugh. Is this confirmed as real?
I don't understand this set at all.
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Might see play if you can cheat it in with piper.... other than that,
way too expensive. I'll just play dragonmaster outcast for 1 and get free 5/5's.
Interesting card though. And revilark will love this in extended.
Could be broken....maybe.....
8 mana for a 1/1 that turns itself into a 7/7 for 1 mana every time you want to is not ridiculous.
And if you've got ridiculous amounts of mana (think Elvish Archdruid and Joraga Treespeakers w/ random elves), he comes down, turns your untapped ones into 7/7 and the swing the turn you play him.
This is a card with real potential to see constructed play.
What's not to get about this from this set? Pay a bunch of mana, make all your dudes huge and win? Sounds like it's in the best to be in for it's type of card.
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No because this one has permanents other than creatures
he doesn't have to, you can use his ability after declare blockers step
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I know man, the following turn you just pay X where X is the number of mana dorks you got and unleash a horde of these at your opponent and also don't forget the Overrun.
Why hate on this card? Oh yeah you hate his cost but then again.... he is in the color green and 8 mana is easy to get.
T1: Forest, Llanowar Elves
T2: Forest, Elvish Archdruid
T3: Forest, Garruk Wildspeaker, untap 2 lands with Garruk's + ability, cast Joraga Treespeaker and pump once
T4: Forest, Cast Gigantomancer and leave G mana open just in case to save it with Vines of Vastwood, use Garruk's +1 ability
T5: Forest... Haha! Overrunning for 33 Trampling Damage with mana dorks
If my guess is correct the other rare in the deck this card will be in will be Gigantoform.
The more I think of this card, the more broken I believe it is. I would never play a deck that would need to hard-cast him, as that would leave me way too vulnerable to removal and tempo loss, but yeah, sneak this sucker in, and just swing with everything
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He also has some decent synergy with Ooze Garden, I find...
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If you have that many spawn tokens, why wasn't this already in play turns ago?
Touche. I can see where he has potential. We'll see..