Where do you think this ranks in black's 3-drops though? I feel like it's hard to crack them.
Is it? I think the only untouchable ones are Flesh Carver and Ophiomancer. I could easily see this in place of something more classic like Hypnotic Specter or Nighthawk
The six we've now mentioned are the ones I've run and I'm having a hard time seeing this being better than any of them, but maybe I'm just undervaluing the effect. Sure you can name "elf" against mana dorks but... I feel like a lot of the time it's just going to give a single creature a -1/-1 for a turn. Maybe I'm wrong.
Why “for a turn”? The effect lasts until it leaves the battlefield, if you decide to play it as a 2/2 Deathtouch you’re just using its floor. When played on curve it’s usually not hard to find an X/1 to kill, while if played later it can really decimate a token board or put to shame token generators and armies-in-a-can like Hornet Queen, Myr Battlesphere, Bitterblossom etc
Where do you think this ranks in black's 3-drops though? I feel like it's hard to crack them.
Is it? I think the only untouchable ones are Flesh Carver and Ophiomancer. I could easily see this in place of something more classic like Hypnotic Specter or Nighthawk
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Why don’t you do MH1 instead of M20? The latter is not even a quarter as interesting
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Why “for a turn”? The effect lasts until it leaves the battlefield, if you decide to play it as a 2/2 Deathtouch you’re just using its floor. When played on curve it’s usually not hard to find an X/1 to kill, while if played later it can really decimate a token board or put to shame token generators and armies-in-a-can like Hornet Queen, Myr Battlesphere, Bitterblossom etc
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Is it? I think the only untouchable ones are Flesh Carver and Ophiomancer. I could easily see this in place of something more classic like Hypnotic Specter or Nighthawk
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