Pointed Discussion

"Double Elephant" is indeed a good card to have in a mono-green deck, especially the kind that runs out of cards at some point because it's getting them out so fast. A 3/3 for 2G isn't bad and can help you keep pace, but the surprise 3/3 late in the game, or just a turn later, can cover those holes in your mana curve if you don't have a decent 4-drop in your hand on turn 3-4. A neat card with the bonus of creating two creatures that can benefit from Muraganda Petroglyphs.

A testament to power creep when this card can be seen a subpar in comparison to the green cards being printed today.

Decent card. What the heck does the XX mean, and why is it listed in the card name?

If you are asking about the tombstone in the card name, they put that symbol on cards with flashback so when you look through your graveyard you can easily identify them.

And other cards that are important in the grave, like wonder or genesis

The XX at the start of the name is only on the (Gatherer's) Time Spiral version of this card and Valor. The original versions don't have that, and neather do any other card with a tombstone. It's obviosly a quirk of how they were entered in to the Gatherer database.

Wish they would still to the tombstone thing, if only to make the old Tombstone cards useful.

Thanks Wizards for basically showing how much Odyssey chase rares had aged by reprinting them in Timespiral (this, Shadowmage Infiltrator, Mirari).

This was once THE chase rare in standard.

@Gishra they have aged but now we can get them for dirt cheap :D and they still wreck house in the casual department , I just picked up 4 of these bad boys, 4 shadowmage and 4 mystic enforcer for $12.00...I love odyssey! Best set ever!

pretty good card, i like the flashback ability. I still gotta ask, why did they make this card if they already had Elephant Ambush?

"pretty good card, i like the flashback ability. I still gotta ask, why did they make this card if they already had Elephant Ambush?"

You'd be satisfied to play with Elephant Ambush? I like the picture, but eight mana to flash it back is ridiculous.

SPOILERS!

The cards leaked from Innistrad show the Flashback mechanic is returning, so I will take this time to call MultiFlasback in Dark Ascension, just as there was Multikicker in Worldwake. It would look something like this.

Annoying Shock...............





Instant

Annoying Shock deals 2 damage
to target creature or player.

Multiflashback (You may
cast this from your graveyard
for its multiflashback cost.
Then put it into your graveyard
as normal.)

elephants...nuff said

Does anybody else think the Tombstone should become a symbol in the textbox that is basically shorthand for JFM2796's multiflashback?

But in response to that theory, no, I don't think we WILL see multiflashback after all. It would seem...not original enough, since they already did multikicker, and remember the one thing they always lament about kicker: it makes half of all the other mechanics just look like kicker knock-offs. No, multikicker was also given an interesting level of flavor in Zendikar block- it was about aftershocks. They tried to distinguish it.

But, we know they do evolve mechanics over blocks- so we will probably see some very wierd flashback costs. Cabal Therapy is just one example. I think we might see even creepier stuff though- remember when they were talking about -1/-1 counters as a possible cost in Shadowmoor? How about -1/-1 counter flashback costs?

C-c-c-card advantage! Belongs in ug and bg graveyard builds. Obligatory muraganda petroglyphs mention