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CardName: Giant Sea Eagle Cost: 5U Type: Creature - Bird Pow/Tgh: 3/2 Rules Text: Giant Sea Eagle is also named Sea Eagle. Flying Flavour Text: "Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes." -E. F. Schumacher Set/Rarity: Magic 20XD6 Basic |
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...huh. Okay.
Oh wait. Never mind, I think.
Yeah, I know. Out of context these 5 cards are going to look really weird. Strangely, they may be some of the most powerful commons in my set.
I've got a lot of cards in 20XX and 20XD6 that Wish for 5 crappy creatures from Magic's past. When you draft the sets, you draft these cards in order to put them in your sideboard, not your deck. When I made 20XD6, I've been looking for ways to spice this up. In order for the theme to keep working, there needs to be the same 5 dumb creatures in the timeshifted slot. Otherwise, the strategy begins to be too hard to build around. Even with a guaranteed crap creature in the timeshifted slot, its a tricky strategy to pick up on. You kind of have to get lucky. Players have a tendency to snatch these things up at about 5th pick.
On a side note, every now and then someone plays with the 'bad' creatures in their main deck. I've seen players pack Mons's Goblin Raiders in mono-red fast builds, and I've also seen people pack Sea Eagle because they just need another evasive creature. I haven't seen anyone use the Quirion Trailblazer main deck, but I have a hard time imagining someone not trying it. It's probably the most useful of the 5. I almost was forced to stick a Pearled Unicorn in one of my draft builds because I had so few creatures, and not enough 3 drops. I've yet to see someone maindeck the Dripping Dead, though. That guy is terrible. He's a fun card when you wish for him, but that's about it.