uh your creature is death, this card is so incradebil funny, if you just imagen it, an oyster eating something.
and it doesn't got DEFENDER!
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Weird that its ability triggers during your draw step, instead of upkeep. Still, it's very flavourful and not bad.
SpamBlade
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
I think it is not so much supposed to be eating the creature as clamping on to it (after which it drowns), in the manner that real life giant clams do. That would certainly explain why the -1/-1 counters disappear.
Nathreet
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
3.5/5 for being the ONLY oyster. Now you know what creature type to change your opponent's creatures into when they play a creature deck.
JamminTacoStand
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
If you want to be really crafty you can use it to help against opponents using Wither and Infect. Though it would probably be better to just go straight for their creatures, but hey, why not?
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Goofy cards are excellent additions to multiplayer decks in small numbers. interestingly enough Steady Progress will make creatures drown faster.
Polychromatic
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Slow, repeated creature-kill for blue is odd. The fact that it's an oyster doing is even more bizarre. Ah well.
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And so I go, on to another Random Card.
Long_Con
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(5 votes)
Use Ashnod's Transmogrant to make it an artifact creature, and then chomp each of your creatures briefly with Voltaic Construct, and that infect deck ain't quite so scary...
asandberge
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This is an amazing card.
Great against people who use proliferate for their +1/+1 counters. Proliferate never says you decide what kind of counter, so it stays at what it was. And it's great against those big ones like Arcbound Juggernaut.
lukemol
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I think the flavor here is awesome. A lot of you are saying it's eating the creature slowly, I interpreted it as it drowning the creature by clamping onto it and not letting go (getting weaker by the minute). So when it does let go, the creature swims up for air and regains its strength.
SarcasmElemental
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
A fantastic, beautiful card from a fantastic, beautiful set that fully deserved to be reprinted
philsrobeighn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ah, bless the English language and our lack of distinction in second-person plurals for making this card so much more powerful for a while in my playgroup.
sonorhC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I've always liked this card, as it's repeatable removal: Lock something down, wait for it to die completely, and then lock down something else. But I only just realized that you can use it on your own creatures, too. If one of your creatures has Persisted, or been Withered or Infected or whatever, just tap this guy and untap him on your next untap step: Presto, all of the -1/-1 counters are gone, even though they came from a different source originally.
Mr.Wimples
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
All-star in my homelands control deck. By all star, I mean it's moderately effective for it's cost and what it does. By moderately effective I mean one of the most cost-effective creatures in homelands. I don't win games.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Should be called "Giant Clam" instead.
The giant clam can produce huge pearls, and was rumored to close its shell on the hands of divers who would attempt to claim those pearls. Since the shell is huge and heavy, those divers would drown, unable to release themselves from the clam's grasp. Those stories are usually dismissed as legends, as in reality the clam actually closes its shell very, very slowly.
Lord_of_phyrexia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
the only oyster in the game
Zygmus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Loved this card for blue control decks.
Comboed with creatures like Thalakos Dreamsower and Labyrinth Minotaur because they'd allow me to tap and drown the opponents' creatures at will. The dreamsower could tap a creature, turn it over to the oyster's tender care, go back next turn and tap another one...
A creature heavy deck would be rendered totally helpless and the other player could only watch while their 7/7 fatty just sat there as my shadow creatures and flyers leisurely shaved off the rest of his hit points. It was so fun to imitate spluttering and bubbling noises and pantomime helpless thrashing each time a creature drowned just to get a furious reaction.
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uh your creature is death, this card is so incradebil funny, if you just imagen it, an oyster eating something.
and it doesn't got DEFENDER!
interestingly enough Steady Progress will make creatures drown faster.
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And so I go, on to another Random Card.
Great against people who use proliferate for their +1/+1 counters. Proliferate never says you decide what kind of counter, so it stays at what it was. And it's great against those big ones like Arcbound Juggernaut.
The giant clam can produce huge pearls, and was rumored to close its shell on the hands of divers who would attempt to claim those pearls. Since the shell is huge and heavy, those divers would drown, unable to release themselves from the clam's grasp. Those stories are usually dismissed as legends, as in reality the clam actually closes its shell very, very slowly.
Comboed with creatures like Thalakos Dreamsower and Labyrinth Minotaur because they'd allow me to tap and drown the opponents' creatures at will.
The dreamsower could tap a creature, turn it over to the oyster's tender care, go back next turn and tap another one...
A creature heavy deck would be rendered totally helpless and the other player could only watch while their 7/7 fatty just sat there as my shadow creatures and flyers leisurely shaved off the rest of his hit points.
It was so fun to imitate spluttering and bubbling noises and pantomime helpless thrashing each time a creature drowned just to get a furious reaction.