For Challenge # 077.
Way back when, this would be a pretty competitive wall, worthy of its rarity, especially with Animate Wall raising its head. (Well, ok, maybe not - wall of swords is cheaper and usually at least as good. Actually, hmm. This trades with a Craw Wurm, the iconic fatty of its day; but wall of swords doesn't. Mind you, the swords can block the Shivan Dragon and this can't, so it's probably a wash. Both splatter Hill Giant's and so on.)
And nowadays, we wouldn't blink too much, to see a big green fatty at this low low price. (Well, ok, we'd wonder where Moss Kami's trample went. And why it's rare. And gripe.)
So, uh, I made a junk rare in alpha that's a junk rare in modern. Yay me :)
the 'modern' version probably would have a different creature type, just to be boring. I prefer the reminder text "(~ does not have defender)" but that makes no damn sense in Alpha.
...and we'd probably complain about the name, which should be an artifact creature; and it oughtn't to be green in that case and... Yeah, chalk this up as a failed effort on my part.
DOH! Moss Kami costs one more. Ok, that's not an unreasonable reason for it to not have trample! Probably doesn't justify the rarity though.
Let's see... Silverback Ape and Hollowhenge Beast are the same size and CMC, but slightly greener to cast. Possibly there's the rarity justification.
Spectral Force is ludicrous; but at least sometimes has a downside.
... Freakin heck, creatures have crept even more than I thought.
For Challenge # 077. Way back when, this would be a pretty competitive wall, worthy of its rarity, especially with Animate Wall raising its head. (Well, ok, maybe not - wall of swords is cheaper and usually at least as good. Actually, hmm. This trades with a Craw Wurm, the iconic fatty of its day; but wall of swords doesn't. Mind you, the swords can block the Shivan Dragon and this can't, so it's probably a wash. Both splatter Hill Giant's and so on.)
And nowadays, we wouldn't blink too much, to see a big green fatty at this low low price. (Well, ok, we'd wonder where Moss Kami's trample went. And why it's rare. And gripe.)
So, uh, I made a junk rare in alpha that's a junk rare in modern. Yay me :)
the 'modern' version probably would have a different creature type, just to be boring. I prefer the reminder text "(~ does not have defender)" but that makes no damn sense in Alpha.
...and we'd probably complain about the name, which should be an artifact creature; and it oughtn't to be green in that case and... Yeah, chalk this up as a failed effort on my part.
DOH! Moss Kami costs one more. Ok, that's not an unreasonable reason for it to not have trample! Probably doesn't justify the rarity though. Let's see... Silverback Ape and Hollowhenge Beast are the same size and CMC, but slightly greener to cast. Possibly there's the rarity justification. Spectral Force is ludicrous; but at least sometimes has a downside.
... Freakin heck, creatures have crept even more than I thought.
No, I think this is quite a success :) A beefy creature by standards old and new.
(And yes, green fatties have powercrept enormously. See Terra Stomper and other 8/8s for 6 with upside.)