Sets Battle for Zendikar Spoilers
- Thread starter Eric Chan
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Is this the new Annihilator? It's kinda cool. Exile 4 lands off the top of your library, play land for turn, hit you with my 10/11 Steppe Lynx. GOTTEM.
I'd have to agree! It supports Landfall shenanigans (I'm still on the Steppe Lynx train), ramps, is a gentle mill support card, has a solid body, and is a nice, colourless fatty. Personally, I always found Annihilator too miserable to allow in my Cube. And that's coming from someone who loves Mill and Land Destruction and is always looking for new angles to expand both strategies. It just doesn't feel fun to use or to face against; it feels pointlessly overpowered and too thoughtless. I think I'd rather just lunge across the table and attack my opponent with a grapefruit spoon.
I like the part where I draw one of their lands 20 minutes into the next round.
Let's not forget that this is the Duel Deck face card for the Fall set. They haven't always been the best cards to represent the set. I like that they're exploring different mechanics to represent the Eldrazi, this exile from library seems pretty cool. I'm interested in seeing the more pushed designs that they've come up with for the set.
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Also, it synergizes with JTMS from the original Zendikar. Fateseal to put a non-land card on the bottom, then cast this guy to marginally increase your expected hit rate.
I will say, I like this approach to Eldrazi design much better. Reasonable CMC, isn't a "remove or die" check. I am sure the bigger ones will be different, but I like the new direction.
From a top down perspective it's nice as well. I hope they showcase more mechanical representations of world eating not-cthulus
Gee, I can't think of anything else to do with this guy.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Hey, if this is how they're going to work I like my giant colorless fatties with cool psudo-random ETB triggers rather than annihilator.
That was the kind of mechanic that might have been okay if it never went above like, 2.
That was the kind of mechanic that might have been okay if it never went above like, 2.
Agreed. Annihilator is a sweet mechanic. Annihilator 4? Not so much. Everything in moderation people. Card draw is cool too but Ancestral Recall sort of did an annihilator 4.
But still, why is this a mythic?
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Well, it does do something unique and weird, if not powerful
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver into this looks quite nasty
Also... Who in his right mind puts this into the same deck as Steppe Lynx?
Might be because of limited and/or NWO, playing exiled lands might be a foreign concept?
Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver into this looks quite nasty
Also... Who in his right mind puts this into the same deck as Steppe Lynx?
Hi hello yes I'd do that
Over here, Lynx is typically a Selesnya land-ramp early threat that becomes a midrange transitional beater. She shows up as something that can punch in early and then go off with the help of things like Fetch lands, Harrow, and Knight of the Reliquary on later turns. She's just as relevant as any other generic 2/x that aggro plays, except she has a bigger booty and can grow bigger much more easily, forcing unpleasant blocks as the life totals trend downwards. I draft my decks flexibly over here, because my format is faster than most; you can't just midrange without using some early drops that aren't mana dorks all the time, and you can have an aggro strategy that utilizes bigger cmc things. If the pieces fall together correctly, it wouldn't be unreasonable to drop this regularly on T4-5 and fatten up some Lynxes at the same time to punch in pretty hard. Green-linked decks always have more generous reach into the bigger creatures, and I see no reason to pass on any potential beneficial card to a deck because of some idea that Lynx is only good in the earliest of turns. You can dig out a lot of extra value from that card if you're fetching and Reliquary shredding lands and such, and transitioning into the midgame with a 6-drop you can easily cast T4-5 in a green-linked deck while relying on land strats to keep a 1-drop somewhere between a 2/3~4/5~6/7 seems sensible to me.
Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
Do you have a sample lynx deck I could see? Sounds intetesting. I vaguely remember drafting similar sounding decks back in the day, but feeling lynx was the worst part of it.
Nobody else but me cares, but Oblivion Sower teams up with Cloudstone Curio to be a more easily tutored win condition for Animar, Soul of Elements (French) EDH while being a reasonable setup for a bigger objective in the future. Worse than Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre for normal games (and significantly worse than Primeval Titan in French), but there is a niche for "colorless 6 drop Cloudstone Curio loop enabler that kills with summoning sick Animar."