Cool Card Design of the Day 5/30/2013 - Tangle Spider deserves a power-level update. In honor of Giant Trap Door Spider. Alternately, Qasali Ambusher needs a simpler, mono-color version.
Shock is a bad Lightning Bolt, too. I would hope this wouldn't live in the same limited environment as Skylasher, but that doesn't stop this from being a solid, elegant design.
Whether or not this needs to be uncommon really depends on the limited environment. If it's all grizzly bears then we don't want this to be a common Flametongue Kavu, but with lots of hill giants it's probably fine at common.
Yeah. It's definitely not too complex for common. I made it uncommon because it's not hard to make it a 2:1, but a given Limited environment could potentially make this reasonable at common.
It eats Wind Drakes for breakfast! A+
ReplyDeleteIsn't this just a "bad" version of Skylasher?
ReplyDeleteShock is a bad Lightning Bolt, too. I would hope this wouldn't live in the same limited environment as Skylasher, but that doesn't stop this from being a solid, elegant design.
DeleteIsn't Skylasher just a broken version of this?
DeleteThis seems like a common for an expert set? It eats Wind Drakes but isn't that much more powerful than one.
ReplyDeleteWhether or not this needs to be uncommon really depends on the limited environment. If it's all grizzly bears then we don't want this to be a common Flametongue Kavu, but with lots of hill giants it's probably fine at common.
DeleteOh, and uh, either way I like it a lot.
DeleteYeah. It's definitely not too complex for common. I made it uncommon because it's not hard to make it a 2:1, but a given Limited environment could potentially make this reasonable at common.
DeleteI really like it!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I could totally believe this was in M14. A more ridiculous version:
ReplyDeleteAmbush Spider 4GG
Uncommon
Flash, Deathtouch, Reach
When ~ enters the battlefield it gets +3/+3 until EOT.
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Great design Jay! Love cards that give green more play depth.
ReplyDeleteI submitted a similar version on the blog a while ago when we were discussing the Murder, Cancel etc cycle of 1CC answer cards with 3 words. Mine was
Spider 1GG
Creature - Spider
Flash, Reach, Deathtouch
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