I don't agree with this assessment at all. You naturally draw a card once on your turn where you don't naturally produce creatures. Kraken actually expands your board state where Mentor of the Meek merely rewards you for doing so.
I think Kraken is easily somewhere in the neighborhood of Young Pyromancer / Monastery Mentor. A big draw to Kraken is that it starts off with 3 toughness, which is huge in the aggro matchup full of 2-power lions. There's so many ways to go off with Mentor, but it's also a great draw / go creature where you just pump once each turn and hold up your counter mana up. So many ways to draw multiple cards a turn with planeswalkers / looters / Sensei's Divining Top / Skullclamp / etc to go off. Letting your opponent untap with this is extremely dangerous since blue can easily protect / abuse it.
Blue Monastery Mentor that grows both vertically and horizontally seems strong, especially with Sylvan Library / JTMS. Fairly easy to get out of Bolt range is huge, will definitely test this one out.
I don't agree with this assessment at all. You naturally draw a card once on your turn where you don't naturally produce creatures. Kraken actually expands your board state where Mentor of the Meek merely rewards you for doing so.
I think Kraken is easily somewhere in the neighborhood of Young Pyromancer / Monastery Mentor. A big draw to Kraken is that it starts off with 3 toughness, which is huge in the aggro matchup full of 2-power lions. There's so many ways to go off with Mentor, but it's also a great draw / go creature where you just pump once each turn and hold up your counter mana up. So many ways to draw multiple cards a turn with planeswalkers / looters / Sensei's Divining Top / Skullclamp / etc to go off. Letting your opponent untap with this is extremely dangerous since blue can easily protect / abuse it.
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Blue Monastery Mentor that grows both vertically and horizontally seems strong, especially with Sylvan Library / JTMS. Fairly easy to get out of Bolt range is huge, will definitely test this one out.
My High Octane Unpowered Cube on CubeCobra