Compared to Green Sun's Zenith:
+ Instant-speed!
+ can search for any creature, not just green ones!
+ Convoke
- XGGG instead of XG
- doesn't go back into the library
What do you think? Is Convoke good enough to offset the higher mana cost?
It's sad that it's so green intensive, so while it can search for creatures of any color, it would still only go in heavy green decks.
Edit: Oh, I just realized this is a reprint. Anyway, there doesn't seem to be a SCD for it yet.
Playing this like counterspell really doesn't sound like a good plan. It's conditional (only ETB-creates) and partial (only counters the effect, not the body). That isn't worth keeping 3 mana open. In that mode it's much worse than Essence Scatter.
I think you'd drop this right away and use it as a (sub-par) beater, while hoping it hoses a card or two on their hand. Not sure if his stats are good enough.
... it's a 4/3 for 3, so at least it passes the vanilla test as a really boring beater at worst
It's a 4/3 for 3 with echo. I don't think that's good enough.
You either pay his echo cost, than you get the 3/2 and the counter, or you sac him next turn for two counters. Neither seems worth the mana investment.
Ugh, I hated to cube with Volcanic Hammer. We had it in our cube in the beginning and it feels so bad to pay 1R for a sorcery speed bolt :mad:. I'm okay with Searing Spear being strictly worse than bolt, but not with a card that is strictly worse than the card that is strictly worse than bolt, haha.
On topic: I'd pretty much only want to cast Sonic Burst if I had nothing else but lands on my hand, in which case Searing Blaze would be so much better.
I think he's much worse than Karn. Not only is Karn colorless, but he also deals with everything (exile target permanent) at least twice (at -3, and he comes with 6 loyality into play). And he gets a massive loyality boost from his +4, and exiling a card from hand is also not shabby.
This Garruk doesn't look too bad either, it deals with creatures and planeswalkers, and adds board presence. But like someone already said, his removal option isn't much better than Vraska's and his tokens aren't much better than other Garruk's. I'm not sure that having both options combined in one planeswalker is worth the 7 mana. I don't think he's better than our current Golgari cards: Deathrite Shaman, Lotleth Troll, Abrupt Decay, Maelstrom Pulse, Pernicious Deed.
Compared to Green Sun's Zenith:
+ Instant-speed!
+ can search for any creature, not just green ones!
+ Convoke
- XGGG instead of XG
- doesn't go back into the library
What do you think? Is Convoke good enough to offset the higher mana cost?
It's sad that it's so green intensive, so while it can search for creatures of any color, it would still only go in heavy green decks.
Edit: Oh, I just realized this is a reprint. Anyway, there doesn't seem to be a SCD for it yet.
I think you'd drop this right away and use it as a (sub-par) beater, while hoping it hoses a card or two on their hand. Not sure if his stats are good enough.
It's a 4/3 for 3 with echo. I don't think that's good enough.
You either pay his echo cost, than you get the 3/2 and the counter, or you sac him next turn for two counters. Neither seems worth the mana investment.
On topic: I'd pretty much only want to cast Sonic Burst if I had nothing else but lands on my hand, in which case Searing Blaze would be so much better.
This Garruk doesn't look too bad either, it deals with creatures and planeswalkers, and adds board presence. But like someone already said, his removal option isn't much better than Vraska's and his tokens aren't much better than other Garruk's. I'm not sure that having both options combined in one planeswalker is worth the 7 mana. I don't think he's better than our current Golgari cards: Deathrite Shaman, Lotleth Troll, Abrupt Decay, Maelstrom Pulse, Pernicious Deed.