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A bit. Lightning Bolt is back so you bet this guy is gonna get fried.The Lunatic Fringe wrote:I haven't played magic for a long while, but that card seems ridiculously good. Are games faster now?
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
That too. But I don't think they're gonna have a lot of counter-adding cards in Standard for it to be become too crazy. Fast mana acceleration though... Standard has a decent set of them right now.Kaelik wrote:Actually, I think the real deal with these shitters is counter spam.
As I recall, one part of my squirrel deck involved a card that allowed you to declare X tokens to counters on any of your cards, and a card that turned counters on it into 3/3 squirrel tokens.
A properly built token deck + that first card could end up leveling up Wizards very fast, and I don't see anything that prevents multiple Wizards from stacking. So you could eventually get to the part where you have enough turns to steamroll people with your infinite tokens.
The reason why you'd want mana acceleration with this guy is the sorcery speed of Level Up. It means you can't pump this guy up to become a 2/4 when somebody Lightning Bolts/Removes it.FrankTrollman wrote:Yeah, that dude is fucking nuts. Even with no mana acceleration at all, he comes out on turn two. Then you level him up with all your mana on turn 3. Then you level him up with all your mana on turn 4. Then you take two turn 5s in a row, so it's a lot like you didn't spend any mana on turn 4 and just delayed it a bit in order to draw an extra card. Essentially you swap out go first for draw first on turn 4 and then you go into absolute fucking crazy town where you take two turns a turn and have an extra Ironwood Treefolk on top of that.
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Indeed. Sadly, the white Level Up creature they've previewed so far looks to be a pain to Level Up. You pay 3 per level? And its grand level 4 ability is it gets stats equal to Serra Angel? (Meaning you spend 13W for a _Serra_?)Red_Rob wrote:But then again Figure of Destiny was pretty bad ass, so I'm sure at least one of these guys will do something nasty.
Yeah, he's crazy powerful. I mean he starts out 1/3 which makes him rather tough to kill from the start. At his second turn out, he's immune to lightning bolt, and then it's just batshit nuts from there.FrankTrollman wrote:Yeah, that dude is fucking nuts. Even with no mana acceleration at all, he comes out on turn two. Then you level him up with all your mana on turn 3. Then you level him up with all your mana on turn 4. Then you take two turn 5s in a row, so it's a lot like you didn't spend any mana on turn 4 and just delayed it a bit in order to draw an extra card. Essentially you swap out go first for draw first on turn 4 and then you go into absolute fucking crazy town where you take two turns a turn and have an extra Ironwood Treefolk on top of that.
That was the main reason I suggested tokens.Red_Rob wrote:A magic deck that can't remove a single creature that the opposing deck just invested two straight turns in and has no special defense is already pretty boned. Even a boomerang fucks this guy sideways.
But then again Figure of Destiny was pretty bad ass, so I'm sure at least one of these guys will do something nasty.
The U.S. isn't a democracy and if you think it is, you are a rube.DSMatticus wrote:Kaelik gonna kaelik. Whatcha gonna do?
Josh_Kablack wrote:You are not a unique and precious snowflake, you are just one more fucking asshole on the internet who presumes themselves to be better than the unwashed masses.
RandomCasualty2 wrote:Not to mention in any kind of multiplayer game, the guy is a complete auto-win.
Well he's a blue card. Does blue do anything other than control?Red_Rob wrote:
I see him working as the kill card in some kind of control deck but he seems too fragile, too costly and too slow to be really scary. At the point where a deck can cast this guy, protect him, and level him up, the game is under control already.
Josh_Kablack wrote:You are not a unique and precious snowflake, you are just one more fucking asshole on the internet who presumes themselves to be better than the unwashed masses.