Card/Deck Your favourite Gray Ogre / Wind Drake?

[safra]

Seems like a fun discussion topic. Definition of terms:
gray ogre = 3 mana 2/2, ideally with upside
wind drake = 3 mana 2/2 flier, ideally with upside

Here are mine:


It's probably pushing the definition a little to count Mentor as a Gray Ogre, but good gracious is it ever a fun one.

For the Wind Drake clone, I'm torn between Mulldrifter and Hypnotic Specter. I have fond memories of Skyknight Legionnaire in its draft format but for Cube, and just in general, Hyppie and Mulldrifter stand out to me as the best Wind Drakes available.

Please let me know that I'm wrong and my choices are stupid because your favourite gray ogre and wind drake are the best. TIA.

 

[psly4mne]

I'd have a hard time justifying Mulldrifter as a Wind Drake. Lingering Souls comes a little closer to counting, but Hyppie and Chandra's Phoenix are the only real ones that comes to mind, Hyppie being much better.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I'll make the choice between Hypnotic Specter and Mulldrifter easier. Mulldrifter is not 3 mana 2/2 flyer, it's a 5 mana 2/2 flyer Here's your Wind Drake options!

I think I'm siding with



for giving red acces to an on-theme flyer that never truly goes away! Kira, Great Glass-Spinner is another option, by the way.

My favorite Gray Ogre probably is...

 

[James Stevenson]

3 mana 2/2 with upside? Can't think of any...

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Also...



Of the 8 actual gray ogres, 5 have a relevant creature type. The king of gray ogres is Headless Horseman, who is both a zombie and a knight!



Also, Wind Drake may be the namesake of this category, but white is the undisputed king of wind drakes! It also thoroughly beats Headless Horseman in the creature type department

 

[Jason Waddell]

3 mana 2/2 with upside? Can't think of any...

 

[Chris Taylor]

Thats why he couldnt think of any

 

[Grillo_Parlante]

 

[Dom Harvey]

 

[Aston]

 

[GiftsForgiven]

Is this guy cheating?



Also, holy crap that's a powerful ability. How did I not know that existed until going through gatherer looking through grey ogres...

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Is this guy cheating?



Also, holy crap that's a powerful ability. How did I not know that existed until going through gatherer looking through grey ogres...

It existed way before that actually:



I've had a blue green deck for years now with this and, among others,...

 

[GiftsForgiven]

It existed way before that actually:



I've had a blue green deck for years now with this and, among others,...

Ah, but the Shaman pumps himself, too, and gets haste in the lategame. That's a gigantic upgrade.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Ah, but the Shaman pumps himself, too, and gets haste in the lategame. That's a gigantic upgrade.

Then again, Giant Growth is so much better than Wax!

 

[GiftsForgiven]

Then again, Giant Growth is so much better than Wax!

But is Giant growth -objectively- better than Wax?

Wait, yes.

Yes it is.

DAMN YOU, MATH! DAMN YOUUUUUU!!!

 

[Diakonov]

 

[Golvin]

Oh, the hours I have attempted to make you viable in modern.

 

[GiftsForgiven]

Oh, the hours I have attempted to make you viable in modern.

I was so pissed that she didn't have haste. That's all she would have needed to be great but not broken. I really love her design, too :/

 

[Fulcrum]

 

[Chriskool]

I want to try out .

 

[Miasmir]

Three-way tie (or too lazy to further examine my preferences??) for me:

 

[shamizy]

 

[Onderzeeboot]

I was so pissed that she didn't have haste. That's all she would have needed to be great but not broken. I really love her design, too :/

She would have been insane with haste.

 

[Diakonov]

Fun, or GRBS?

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Fun, or GRBS?

Neither?