My mistake, you are correct that you never said Off Topic was stupid. I was thinking of someone else, but I'll just let it slide there and not accuse anyone else
PJ, I'm not talking about creature enhancements on the Elite, I'm talking about P/T increasing spells along the lines of Giant Growth. I'm gonna just let this go too, as nobody's listening to me on this anyway.
Giz, the point you make on Negator is a perfectly valid one. I still disagree, but that's the most logical argument I've heard from you yet.
The Masticore, however, is another story. At 3/3 It would have been CLOSER to being balanced, but still not fair. For those kind of abilities to be balanced, make it maybe a 2/4 or so and keep the same CC. Of course, not it's not nearly so good, so possibly an entirely different sort of upkeep would be required. The mana intensiveness it does have, but let's take your own advice and not be quite so arbitrary and look at the environment. Gaea's Cradle. Priest of Titania. Crop Rotation. Grim Monolith. Thran Dynamo. Voltaic Key. Tolarian Academy. Okay, so not the Academy, but just imagine if it were still around with Tinker
Suddenly, it's not quite so mana intensive when you've got such an incredible amount of potential mana floating around. Now put the Masticore in, say, Tempest block. Not quite so insane anymore as you can't produce 20 billion mana on turn 5
I would be kidding normally, but with Academy legal it IS possible, so thank god they caught that one quick
. The discard advantage is a fairly decent drawback, but not nearly enough of one for something such as this. I would say maybe discard a card at random, but hey, I would also say make it a 0/1
Seriously though, just one last rant on this. A decent smi-version of the Masticore is one of my favorite creatures from the absurd block, Phyrexian Plaguelord. Excellent abilities and also a reasonable size for the mana cost.
Interesting, but indeed you do provide a different dimension of play. Different, yes. Better, not to me
Btw Spiderman, I never said there was anything wrong with it. As I said I was merely curious.
You may have noticed by the subject, but I've noticed the lack of ANYTHING new happening on this thread. Kinda like the CPA notables off topic thread one did eventually
(Um, just kidding Almindhra, now put down the knife. Put it aaaaaa!
) j/k , this is getting considerably like the We're both arrogant and stubborn enough to keep this going for months on end, so I'lm just cutting this off right now. I have an irritating number of other things to do (why are there ALWAYS more papers to write???
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Sorry for trying to convince you that the cards you like are boring. I promise to let you play with uninteresting cards in the future.