Made for Challenge # 043. The idea was to have a big brother to Arc Runner as a good finisher for a Big Red kind of deck. Spike would appreciate its flexibility as both a bigger Flametongue Kavu, as well as just a 12-to-the-dome kind of big finisher that red is typically looking for. It might be able to have first strike too, not sure.

Ooh, nice. Reminds me of Bogardan Hellkite, which was played in tournaments at its time (and hard-cast sometimes, not just summoned off Dragonstorm... which is incidentally another Spike/Timmy card).

It'll be a heck of a tricky card to deal with except with removal spells. Any burn will do it, but the opponent would need two first strike blockers to even trade with it (after the first one gets burned away). Which I guess is the kind of deal Spike wants.

Yeah, well you could block with like a Sun Titan and a Lingering Souls token, let's say, but if you have that then I'll probably just nuke your titan with the ETB ability and hit you for 6. It's a tough card to deal with, but then again it's a 7-drop, so it probably should be :) I could see it with or without the first strike, I'm sure that's something we'd test in development before going to print.

Yeah. With first strike I can trade with it if I have two 6/6s and a 1/1, or eight 1/1s, or three 4/4s. (Or for that matter three 1/4s.)