Kinnan, Bonder ProdigyUG Legendary Creature - Human Druid (MR)
Whenever you tap a nonland permanent for mana, add one mana of any type that permanent produced. 5GU: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a non-Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library. 2/2
This is a thread about whether the powercreep of Kinnan and if it warrants a ban.
To preface, the following, I believe that Kinnan will always be an unfun commander to play againgst even when toned down in consisteny from deckbuilding.
Kinnan's static ability is the most similar to Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary or Selvala, Heart of the Wilds as it bolsters mana production.
Kinnan's activated ability is very similar Mayael the Anima activated ability, yet without the tap symbol making it a potentially infinite sink.
Kinnan is similar to Rofellos in terms of body and cost, yet they 1 more toughness making it slightly harder to remove them.
Kinnan is similar to Mayael, Rofellos, and Selvala in that they all have access to green, yet Kinnen has access to blue.
Kinnan can make infinite colorless mana with just a Basalt Monolith, the others cannot.
Kinnan can make infinite colored mana when using a Birds of Paradise and a Freed From the Real.
Kinnan turns simple mana rocks and manadorks like an Arcane Signet or a Llanowar Elves into mini rituals.
Kinnan can outpace Rofellos in terms of mana production when using non-infinite mana.
Kinnan is viewed by the CEDH and EDH communities on Reddit as an unabashedly competitive card.
Kinnan is a very easy to abuse commander even if unintentionally for even a new player who slots in the typical manarocks and dorks.
Kinnan will create an unfun player experience when they explode early on in the first few turns even when unoptimized against similarly unoptimized decks.
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I think the card is really lazy design. You are right about the power-creep, its been so noticeable this year. I dont think it is worth a ban, its just another U/G goodstuff card people will either get sick of playing, or will draw so much hate it gets pulled.
If people are sick of reading about stuff just stop taking part. You have 100% control over what you read. Simic Ascendancy isn't going to get banned just because you didn't tell someone to shut up on the internet.
Yea, i'm starting to feel a bit sick, seeing all those UGx goodstuff decks that are roaming about. But no, i agree with MRHblue in that it's not worth a ban; Sure it goes off with stuff like basalt monolith, but it's not all that overly powerful.
Legendary Creature - Human Druid (MR)
Whenever you tap a nonland permanent for mana, add one mana of any type that permanent produced.
5GU: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may put a non-Human creature card from among them onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom of your library.
2/2
This is a thread about whether the powercreep of Kinnan and if it warrants a ban.
To preface, the following, I believe that Kinnan will always be an unfun commander to play againgst even when toned down in consisteny from deckbuilding.
Kinnan's static ability is the most similar to Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary or Selvala, Heart of the Wilds as it bolsters mana production.
Kinnan's activated ability is very similar Mayael the Anima activated ability, yet without the tap symbol making it a potentially infinite sink.
Kinnan is similar to Rofellos in terms of body and cost, yet they 1 more toughness making it slightly harder to remove them.
Kinnan is similar to Mayael, Rofellos, and Selvala in that they all have access to green, yet Kinnen has access to blue.
Kinnan can make infinite colorless mana with just a Basalt Monolith, the others cannot.
Kinnan can make infinite colored mana when using a Birds of Paradise and a Freed From the Real.
Kinnan turns simple mana rocks and manadorks like an Arcane Signet or a Llanowar Elves into mini rituals.
Kinnan can outpace Rofellos in terms of mana production when using non-infinite mana.
Kinnan is viewed by the CEDH and EDH communities on Reddit as an unabashedly competitive card.
Kinnan is a very easy to abuse commander even if unintentionally for even a new player who slots in the typical manarocks and dorks.
Kinnan will create an unfun player experience when they explode early on in the first few turns even when unoptimized against similarly unoptimized decks.
Shine a light upon this night of otherworldly fiends
Odin's might be your guide, divorce you from the sane
Hammer's way will have its say, rise up in their name
Scratching hag, you rake your claws, gnash your crooked teeth
You've taken slaves like ocean waves, now feel the ocean seethe
- Children of the Elder Gods by Poets of the Fall
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