I know, but who's to say they're moving in the right direction? Or that they won't return to a color and landwalk based set? Also how is landwalk nonsensical? :(
I think they're moving in the right direction. Randomly hosing a fraction of the decks you play against is not good game play and should not be keyworded. Sideboard cards are one thing, but making it a keyword means you're making too many of them. And I only meant that plainswalk is dumb, since how do you sneak across an open plain?
Its a simple creature with an evasion ability. Eager Cadet got an upgrade. Flying Men and Tormented Soul are glad to have this lil' guy in their ranks.
Also, it's not hosing any more than creatures with hexproof. Or Shadow. Or Horsemanship.
Chill or Flashfires or Boil. Now that's hosing.
And how does the mighty lion stalk his prey? A lion with plainswalk might make more sense, but with this guy I imagine speed and grace, not stealth.
You're right it's an evasion ability, but it's a non-interactive one. Either you're playing white, in which case this guy is straight-up unblockable, or you're not, in which case this does nothing. It's not like flying or intimidate where some subset of your creatures can maybe block it: it's all or nothing, on a metagame level, with no interest inside the actual game, just a groan on one side or the other when one side lucks into having an unblockable guy or gets unlucky and has a vanilla 1/1.
Valid point, but I don't think its that big of an issue. It's a 20 turn clock, it dies to everything excluding combat, and just how toxic is Phantom Warrior anyway? People better get on my level and start running Great Wall. :p
Wizards is moving away from landwalk in general, and plainswalk is the most nonsensical of all of them.
I know, but who's to say they're moving in the right direction? Or that they won't return to a color and landwalk based set? Also how is landwalk nonsensical? :(
I think they're moving in the right direction. Randomly hosing a fraction of the decks you play against is not good game play and should not be keyworded. Sideboard cards are one thing, but making it a keyword means you're making too many of them. And I only meant that plainswalk is dumb, since how do you sneak across an open plain?
Its a simple creature with an evasion ability. Eager Cadet got an upgrade. Flying Men and Tormented Soul are glad to have this lil' guy in their ranks. Also, it's not hosing any more than creatures with hexproof. Or Shadow. Or Horsemanship. Chill or Flashfires or Boil. Now that's hosing.
And how does the mighty lion stalk his prey? A lion with plainswalk might make more sense, but with this guy I imagine speed and grace, not stealth.
You're right it's an evasion ability, but it's a non-interactive one. Either you're playing white, in which case this guy is straight-up unblockable, or you're not, in which case this does nothing. It's not like flying or intimidate where some subset of your creatures can maybe block it: it's all or nothing, on a metagame level, with no interest inside the actual game, just a groan on one side or the other when one side lucks into having an unblockable guy or gets unlucky and has a vanilla 1/1.
Valid point, but I don't think its that big of an issue. It's a 20 turn clock, it dies to everything excluding combat, and just how toxic is Phantom Warrior anyway? People better get on my level and start running Great Wall. :p
Also, it bother's me that every other color gets a 1/1 with landwalk against their own color except white. Plague Beetle, Goblin Mountaineer, Grayscaled Gharial, Willow Dryad.