A forgotten knight lord. Still, he makes blocking a really bad idea. Not as good as the other lords, but still a solid knight.
Selez
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Fun with flanking! (no duh) But seriously, this makes all your turn one sidewinder slivers or mtenda herders effectively 3/3 when blocked.
It's really funny, the flavor flaw of flanking: ten billion 1/1's block your Mtenda Herder at once, and they ALL DIE. Turns out being on a horse is better than we give it credit for.
Fine with Crib Swap. Good with Mercy Killing. KILLER with Godhead of Awe. BAM.
@Selez: Actually since flanking triggers when blockers are declared any 1 toughness creature would die due to having 0 toughness before blocking can occur, meaning the damage from the attacking creature would still get through.
CJM2
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(12 votes)
Yo dawg, I heard you like Flanking, so we gave your Flanking creatures Flanking, so you can -1/-1 while you -1/-1.
@Test-Subject: Once the blockers are declared, regardless of whether they are removed from combat (because they go to the graveyard due to having 0 toughness, for instance), the attacking creature is still blocked, so no damage will get through unless the attacker also has Trample.
Seriously, couldn't he have just given them a P/T boost like every other lord?
armogohma
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
This gets my vote for wierdest lord ever.
ROBRAM89
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I did NOT think flanking worked that way.
land_comment
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I wish they reprinted flanking.
Tetsu_tora
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
flanking, flanking, fLAnkIng, FLaNKInG, FLANKING! *shovel upside the head*
This is a flanking good card.
BastianQoU
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This has to be the most redundant statement i've seen printed on a card. Without that reminder text, I'm sure there would be a lot of head scratching when someone tried to puzzle out what that was supposed to mean. Bloodscent the token horde :D
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
He's a knight. Curves beautifully with the M11 lord. Knights are silly. They've never really been a full Tier 1 deck, cuz they've been just mildly sprinkled throughout Magic's history, but they are probably the number 1 budget deck build a long-time gamer can make.
White Knight -> Paladin En-vec -> Cavalry Master -> Knight Exemplar -> Mirran Crusader...and they just keep getting stupider.
Watch them make this card one day:
playtest name: Ride of the Rohirrim
2WWW Sorcery
Knight creatures you control get +2/+2 and trample. Flavor text: "Ride for Wrath. Ride for Ruin. And the World's Ending!"
TPmanW
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Too bad Concerted Effort doesn't work with flanking. Now that would've been a combo.
Missile_Penguin
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(6 votes)
Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.
This card is referencing the flanking Knights from Mirage as well as the various "lords" like Goblin King by giving flanking Knights their own twist on +1/+1. Possibly also referencing Zhalfirin Commander.
KnexWiz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i photo shoped this to not have that last bit of reminder text. it look frik'n awesome with out it
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yo dawg...
Jerec_Onyx
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Hello, timmies, look at your ninja, now back to me, now back at your ninja, now back to me. Sadly, he isn't me, but if he stopped giving himself +X*/+X* and started giving blockers -2/-2, he could smell like me. Look down, back up, where are you? You're on a boat with the man your ninja could smell like. What's in your hand, back at me. I have it, it's an Indrik Umbra with X* tickets to the house of pain. Look again, the tickets are now disfigures. Anything is possible when your man smells like Cavalry Master and not bushido. I'm on a horse.
*Equal to the number of blockers.
Salient
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Flanking creatures with flanking you control have flanking, flanking, flanking, flanking, and flanking. (Each instance of flanking must be spoken separately.)
For flank's sake.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I've made a Flanking tribal deck that gets up to Flanking x8 with 4 of these guys and 4 Sidewinder Slivers.
It doesn't exactly function, but it's hella fun to use.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is redundantly repetitive. Awesomely cool! 4/4/5 stars!
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It's really funny, the flavor flaw of flanking: ten billion 1/1's block your Mtenda Herder at once, and they ALL DIE. Turns out being on a horse is better than we give it credit for.
Fine with Crib Swap. Good with Mercy Killing. KILLER with Godhead of Awe. BAM.
Nice.
@Test-Subject: Once the blockers are declared, regardless of whether they are removed from combat (because they go to the graveyard due to having 0 toughness, for instance), the attacking creature is still blocked, so no damage will get through unless the attacker also has Trample.
Longcat is long!
This is a flanking good card.
White Knight -> Paladin En-vec -> Cavalry Master -> Knight Exemplar -> Mirran Crusader...and they just keep getting stupider.
Watch them make this card one day:
playtest name: Ride of the Rohirrim
2WWW
Sorcery
Knight creatures you control get +2/+2 and trample.
Flavor text: "Ride for Wrath. Ride for Ruin. And the World's Ending!"
This card is referencing the flanking Knights from Mirage as well as the various "lords" like Goblin King by giving flanking Knights their own twist on +1/+1. Possibly also referencing Zhalfirin Commander.
*Equal to the number of blockers.
For flank's sake.
It doesn't exactly function, but it's hella fun to use.