Its so limited in what it does and even then it doesnt really take something away from the opponent, they still get to attack someone else.
To make even more of them, well, thats pretty lame.
They don’t get to attack someone else, they have to attack someone else. If you Goad all of their creatures they have to attack with every creature, which frequently leads to two of your opponents wrecking their board states.
It's a decent multi-player mechanic that doesn't make you OP - in fact, it gets quite bad when you're down to the last two players. And that comes from someone who loves the mechanic and has both a Marisi deck and a Kardur deck.
I deal with that issue by using the time my opponents are killing each other to amass and multiply an army of token creatures with my Marisi deck.
Couldn't the same be said about Phyrexia? They had years in the lime light and they lost I don't see why we need to spend more years rehashing the same storyline only now we have phyrexian planeswalkers oooohhh so exciting.
Well that’s our fault. We buy more product when it’s connected to old stuff.
I always find complaints about bad things happening to popular characters a little silly.
“Why couldn’t it have happened to a character I don’t care about?!”
Because you wouldn’t care. If they only did things you won’t care about then you wouldn’t care about any of it. The reaction they’re getting with this decision is the entire point. You don’t like that this bad thing happened to Tamiyo because you care about the character, which means they did their job correctly.
This could be a very potent commander. Since the spell cost reduction is tied to his power and not the number of counters on him you can get some crazy value going pretty quickly in these colors. Obviously it would be easier in URG than UR, but it’s still easy to buff this dude up and protect him from removal in UR.
One of your opponents has a powerful artifact or enchantment that will win them the game next turn/prevent you from winning this turn. You are a smart player who doesn't run terrible cards like Dire-Strain Rampage. You topdeck a Harrow. You lose.
Similar situation, but you topdeck a land. Wouldn't it be nice if that Harrow in your graveyard could save you? You lose.
You keep an opening hand with three lands and a Naturalize, but you never draw any more lands. Wouldn't it be nice to have a ramp spell in hand? You lose.
Dire-Strain Rampage is worse than Harrow at ramp and worse than Naturalize at removal, but it's both. That means there are many situations where it's good enough and the "better" card is worthless.
Using that logic almost every crap card is actually good. Draft chaff is god-tier if you construct very specific, very unlikely circumstances to justify the conclusion you already reached.
Do you guys never do role compression? Flashback is a big deal, I'd absolutely play bad Harrow with flashback. And if you draw it too late for ramp to matter, it's not worthless. Id much rather my opponent have a basic land than a game-winning artifact or enchantment. This card is flexible as hell and decent in every quadrant.
Are you the guy who’s like “come on, everyone, mosquitos aren’t THAT bad” or “we should just be grateful that air travel exists, even if we did end up in the wrong city because the pilot is drunk”?
They don’t get to attack someone else, they have to attack someone else. If you Goad all of their creatures they have to attack with every creature, which frequently leads to two of your opponents wrecking their board states.
I deal with that issue by using the time my opponents are killing each other to amass and multiply an army of token creatures with my Marisi deck.
Well that’s our fault. We buy more product when it’s connected to old stuff.
“Why couldn’t it have happened to a character I don’t care about?!”
Because you wouldn’t care. If they only did things you won’t care about then you wouldn’t care about any of it. The reaction they’re getting with this decision is the entire point. You don’t like that this bad thing happened to Tamiyo because you care about the character, which means they did their job correctly.
Seems entirely arbitrary.
This alt art looks like Sirius Black riding a Thestral with a crane’s head.
Signets aren’t net zero on mana like this.
Using that logic almost every crap card is actually good. Draft chaff is god-tier if you construct very specific, very unlikely circumstances to justify the conclusion you already reached.
Are you the guy who’s like “come on, everyone, mosquitos aren’t THAT bad” or “we should just be grateful that air travel exists, even if we did end up in the wrong city because the pilot is drunk”?