regen on a 5/2 is awesome it's just a shame it costs RRR to do.
Guest57443454
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Hovercraft, Eron doesn't have Trample, that's why...
Volcre
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
@Hovercraft And he costs 5... in a Red Deck you want people to be dead by that point...
Hovercraft
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Homelands has a lot of overlooked cards and this is one of it's better ones. An alternative to Ball Lightning in that it regenerates without end of turn burial (literally the opposite). He is better now that he can be supported with cards like Seething Song than he used to be. This card has what Ball Lightning does not, at least. As someone else has said regenerating makes up for lack of trample in most cases. He can just mow through dudes. Try him out and you'll see he is more effective than he looks. He costs more than Ball Lightning because he is better.
The haste and RRR regeneration are kind of mutually exclusive. You'd need 8 mana to play Eron, attack then regenerate. All too often I'd play Eron then *wait* till next turn, when I could afford to regen. Still a good card, though.
One of the very few fringe playable cards from Homelands. What Eron lacks in playability (thank you very much creature creep), he makes up in style.
GoblinNaysayer93
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(6 votes)
Cards like this are difficult to rate. Players are typically expected to pay more for off-color effects, so the fact that it costs so much to regenerate this guy shouldn't be surprising. If red could regenerate as well as green, regeneration wouldn't be considered a green ability, now would it? On the other hand, red players usually take into account the fact that their creatures will die quickly (with the exception of dragons), and so regeneration may not be worth the effort, hence the difficulty in rating this card. I'd say the value of Eron is contingent on how relevant regeneration is to your strategy.
ph34rbot
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Doesn't this guy looks like Axl Rose from Guns & Roses?
intothevoid
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
one M and two colorless regenerate would have been great
Max_Glycine
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Intothevoid- you mean 2R? You abbreviate mana by the color not the basic land. However, I believe that it's still somewhat balanced, though expensive creatures with expensive regeneration are fairly undesirable because in the turn you play them, they're just as vulnerable as any other creature, since you tapped out to play them. So the haste is kind of pointless- trade it for trample and you've got a perfect card.
RxPhantom
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I remember when this guy was hot stuff. People knew Homelands sucked from the beginning, but it had a few stars, mainly the legends. Eron's star has faded since the 90's, but he was a superstar back then.
But I still have to give him 5/5 for being one of the few good cards in Homelands, and just oozing with style.
EGarrett01
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With a name like that, I'm sure he's popular with the ladies.
blurrymadness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
You use the regen the next turn. You drop this guy when the opponent is already open. FOOLS!
raptorman333
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
so whats the flavor here? he's really a 4/2 creature with the brute attached to him?
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Dat swag.
psychichobo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I got one of these in Foil from a Time Spiral booster. Didn't even know that was possible!
It's eerie in foil too - they did it better back then with only certain parts in foil, instead of the whole card. With this guy, the foil parts are the background... and nothing else but his eyes.
Damn it's creepy.
Earthdawn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Seething Song into this guy is always worth it if he's your EDH commander.
Phelplan
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@DrPompousMD Actually, one of the perks of having haste is that you can drop a creature with high power and attack unhindered while your opponent has all his/her creatures tapped. So although the casting cost and regenerate are largely "mutually exclusive" as you say, the haste really isn't if you play your cards right. And yes, I know he might die to Doom Blade yadda yadda, but that's the chance you have to take with almost all creatures.
How this card is ideally played: You cast him and get in 5 damage because your opponent didn't see him coming and is all tapped out in creatures. You get lucky because it is late game and your opponent doesn't have any removal left in hand either. If the opponent doesn't top-deck some removal then Eron gets stompy again next turn especially if you draw something like Rancor. Wow -> Eron isn't so bad after all. Heck, if he has Rancor on him and you get the trample damage through you could cast a nice burn spell followed by a Fireblast and forget the stupid regeneration.
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Volcre
"And he costs 5... in a Red Deck you want people to be dead by that point..."
Because Thundermaw Hellkite was NEVER used in competitive play, right?
Oh, I see that your comment was made before that dragon came to be. Perhaps now you know better.
ArchadesSabboth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ raptorman333
at the time he released, ball lightning was like one of only a few (if not only one) that had haste. this guy is more like ball lightning w/ regenerate and no sacrifice.
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And he costs 5... in a Red Deck you want people to be dead by that point...
What Eron lacks in playability (thank you very much creature creep), he makes up in style.
However, I believe that it's still somewhat balanced, though expensive creatures with expensive regeneration are fairly undesirable because in the turn you play them, they're just as vulnerable as any other creature, since you tapped out to play them. So the haste is kind of pointless- trade it for trample and you've got a perfect card.
But I still have to give him 5/5 for being one of the few good cards in Homelands, and just oozing with style.
It's eerie in foil too - they did it better back then with only certain parts in foil, instead of the whole card. With this guy, the foil parts are the background... and nothing else but his eyes.
Damn it's creepy.
How this card is ideally played: You cast him and get in 5 damage because your opponent didn't see him coming and is all tapped out in creatures. You get lucky because it is late game and your opponent doesn't have any removal left in hand either. If the opponent doesn't top-deck some removal then Eron gets stompy again next turn especially if you draw something like Rancor. Wow -> Eron isn't so bad after all. Heck, if he has Rancor on him and you get the trample damage through you could cast a nice burn spell followed by a Fireblast and forget the stupid regeneration.
"And he costs 5... in a Red Deck you want people to be dead by that point..."
Because Thundermaw Hellkite was NEVER used in competitive play, right?
Oh, I see that your comment was made before that dragon came to be. Perhaps now you know better.
at the time he released, ball lightning was like one of only a few (if not only one) that had haste. this guy is more like ball lightning w/ regenerate and no sacrifice.
WTF happened to you, man?