I think this is a fun card. 2 for 1 on ETB versus cast but has a Channel removal for creature/planeswalker and makes a very good reanimation target. Might swap out Inferno Titan for this just to play around with it since IT has been in my Cube since it was printed.
I think this is a very good card that is dependent on how many planeswalkers and/or artifacts you run in your cube. Obviously no planeswalkers reduces this effectiveness of this but between treasure tokens, food tokens, etc the value of this goes up. Love colorless aggro support.
Seems good on its own, but so is every other aggressive 2-cmc creature. A 3/1 for 2 generally doesn't get there for me unless it has first strike or can reliably protect or pump itself. A colorless 3/1 by itself doesn't get there for me, so it's really dependent on other synergies like artifacts / legendary matters, or how many treasures / blood / food / clue / baubles etc I you have / can produce. Not working with Mox Opal is very unfortunate for legendary matters (has to be colored). I'm not too interested in this myself right now, but I'll be keeping an eye on it as it's inevitable that we're going to get more treasures / clues / token / blood / etc. New Ixalan set will probably have treasures because they originated from Ixalan, new Ravnica set will probably have clue tokens since it's a murder mystery set, and I think there's a good chance that horror house set or whatever it is will probably have blood tokens.
Think you meant this doesn't work with Mox Amber and not Opal, since this absolutely does trigger Metalcraft. I don't know many cubes that play Amber.
I really like this card. 2R for a 3/2 double striker is pretty fine if you're curving out but being able to give something else a +1/+1 counter and double strike on turn 3 could help close out games early. Lastly, the Dash component, while unlikely to be repeated, does give it a bit of reach and surprise.
The backside is insane, ensuring every land card you draw is damage + gas. Not sure if it has the support a deck like that would need but I like the design.
Think you meant this doesn't work with Mox Amber and not Opal, since this absolutely does trigger Metalcraft. I don't know many cubes that play Amber.
I'm hoping the Phoenix does well, I think this is perfect as a two drop right before Phoenix of Ash but want to get some games in.
Rampaging Raptor I'm excited to try out as well since one of red's disadvantages of opponent's PWs being ability + fog can be helpful.
I also like Sedgemoor Witch, I think even if you only get a single trigger out of it during a game its worth the cost.