...Or you could just play it for it's morph cost and attack, then unmorph. It's a combo in itself. I attack you with a morphed 2/2 creature... oh noes! you get hit for 13 damage instead. xD
Disruptor
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(5 votes)
This might be one of the few cards that has to be so cheated into play to surive its mana cost, has an upkeep cost and becomes stupid against a Drudge skeletons, lol.
KrosanGardener
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
I like this card because the sole reason it was printed was to make sure that the biggest creature in the game belonged to green.
Seriously, guys. It has no other purpose. It dies to most removal. It does not have trample. There is no reason to play this creature, even when it can be cheated into play.
lordinfamous
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Elvish Piper to get him on the board and then just a simple lifelink or better yet whispersilk cloak...oh yeah game is in the bag!
ClockworkSwordfish
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(4 votes)
The biggest creature in the game! 5/5 for the kind of overkill that makes me love green.
Tommy9898
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
He played pandemonium and then got prissy at me for hardcasting this guy. Hey I'm not the one that played a dangerous card without the ability to back it up. I then laughed to see the morphed card he had was this as well.
Turn two Primal Rage, turn three Elvish Piper, turn four This Guy. Having four of each in a sixty card deck makes this a lot more common then you'd think, and having a 13/13 trampler on the field on turn four is fun, especially if you run four Vines of Vastwood to keep him from getting removed. Just speaking from personal experience here.
lexgamer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
piper and trample is the best way to go, and i got this elf that stops me from having to sacrifice, so its the only deck i have that can withstand my friends amazingly powerful eldrazi deck
Duskdale_Wurm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fists of Ironwood. O_O Big and badddddd.
allmighty_abacus
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
why not just pay 5 more mana and drop emrakul
Evermint
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
How could they not give this massive behemoth trample?!
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(8 votes)
He can't figure out how to get around Insect tokens.
Havens
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Tommy9898
funny, your friends morph trick wouldnt work, pandemonium triggers when a creature comes into play, when you morph a creature, its already in play, just changing what it is, so the ability wouldnt trigger...
@blindthrall
a simple giant growth on him and he smushes emrakul easily
Revan312
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love cheating him into play with either the Piper or an amulet and then slipping a whispersilk cloak onto him that same turn. My friends always concede even though I keep telling them to just run some disenchants... *shrug* :P he wins me games.
Morph was meant as a surprise type mechanic. Cards like raven guild master which can be detrimental if unblocked just as this. If later in a game this is unblocked then morphed it would tend to win the game. Obvious problem is trample and it fails horribly to spot removal. However how many 5/5 cards don't fail to spot removal. Green has hundreds of ways to give creatures trample, plenty of mana ramp so this card should be no more than a turn five creature. Its still no more than a 3/5 or a 4/5 depending on where it's played. But it has a lot of potential.
TheTornScarecrow
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
can someone help me? when it says pay two forests dose that mean sac them or tap them? or is it talking about mana? im new and i just want to make things clear. and plz dont be harsh.
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
"they really just need to print a 20/20 vanilla green creature." @supershawn: Wizards once said they wouldn't do that because the number 20 gets pretty dangerous when it comes to cards that deal with characteristics of other cards - this would allow instant wins with a single spell, which would be pretty overpowered. But who knows, they might someday change their mind though. Wouldn't be the first time after all Oo
Ferlord
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Wow... That's a friggin huge creature.
Jeez, does anybody see that? Give it any ability and... damn!
I think the morph ability is a little but redundant, since it just reduces the cost by 1, but whatever, let it do what it does.
Concerned_Bystander
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@ mode
So how do they explain away Blightsteel Colossus then? Not only is it a one-swing win but they made it indestructible to boot. And don't even get me started on those ridiculous Eldrazi creatures! I guess power creep is just a fact of the game that we have to live with.
axiobeta
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(7 votes)
I'm in yo Krosa, eatin' yo two trees per turn
mattblack04
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(5 votes)
For flavor, creatures this big this should have Trample. It makes no sense that my saproling can stop it in its tracks.
sagegreenOBELISK
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
Defense of the Heart pops for a Roughshod Mentor and him. Poop pants. Now that's Olde School Stompy.
TheWrathofShane
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
My guess for why they didnt give it trample. They wanted to encourage the unblocked morph play. But it makes absolutly no sense flavor wise for it not to have trample.
Totema
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Cloudscraper, huh? But he doesn't have Reach? Something went wrong here.
pedrodyl
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(9 votes)
Remember, it only takes 26 Little Girls to take down a Krosan Cloudscraper
Dragasm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Imagine this thing tearing through the forest towards you, roaring and ripping up entire stands of trees. Suddenly there is a tiny, wet crunch. The cloudscraper stops in its tracks, lifts up the bottom of its foot and stares at it confused. There upon its sole are the crushed remains of a tiny rodent. The beast looks back at you with a blank stare. The combat phase is over, and Krosan Cloudscraper has been blocked by the ravenous rat that made your opponent discard rancor 5 turns ago.
Still I love this card. It's big, it has cool art, and green makes trample easy.
DeckMechanic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Now imagine him tragically slipping into a hole in the ground. Tragic Slip
Purrplext
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
ROFLMAO @Dragasm
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Love the flavor here.
Entries in a journal day to day: A mysterious granite like insect appeared in the forest today. Upon investigation, it appeared to have nothing particularly astounding about it, other than its lack of eyes and still being perfectly able to find its way around.
The shell of the insect has cracked slightly. Perhaps it is merely molting.
Today I awoke to find a massive beast towering high above even the trees of great Krosa. Its massive footprints leave craters in its wake, crushing the trees and the mana within. It took a five teams of Elven Riders to take the beast down, and, only one unit survived. My greatest fear is that there are more of these beasts out there.
hahahahahaha
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is very fun to play. I used to play with it in a red green white deck with Mana Flare and Basalt Monolith to bring it in to play. Recently I've decided I might try it in a red green deck with Primeval Titan to help handle that high mana cost.
Lifegainwithbite
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'd hesitate to say Worldspine Wurm is strictly better... but in 99% of cases I see it as being a lot better. And yet this is somehow rated higher, presumably because it's old.
Sweater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"they really just need to print a 20/20 vanilla green creature." @supershawn fling comes to mind as a reason against that. Or a green version of blazing shoals.
Worldspine Wurm has trample, is larger, and makes little guys when dead...better.
WindMasterArceus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If this thing is chilling on my side of the battlefield, I wouldn't mind paying two mana a turn to keep it there, to be honest. Cumulative upkeep would make me think more
SorianSadaskan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5/5
You have to consider the fact you don't get to see creatures with equivalent power/toughness beyond 9/9 that often. The horrifying effect this Earth Titan has is its power to morph in and out at anytime. Facing morph decks back then is a real pain in the a** due to the fact if you block or UNBLOCK the wrong creature, and the unblocked morphling turns out to this massive gorilla. Morph decks tend put any players at unease because you can't detect what is underneath.
Your game is pretty much over unless you are prepared with removal, though considering Blue Wizards in Onslaught Block have tendencies to make him unblockable as 2/2 morph creature, it's really a one-foot hammer threw at you, and while you think you can take it like a man, it suddenly morphed into a 1.7 ton truck coming your way. In short, its a big maul rammed up your a** if you don't block it.
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Seriously, guys. It has no other purpose. It dies to most removal. It does not have trample. There is no reason to play this creature, even when it can be cheated into play.
T2: Forest, Fyndhorn Elder
T3: Forest, Elvish Aberation
T4: Forest, Krosan Cloudscraper
funny, your friends morph trick wouldnt work, pandemonium triggers when a creature comes into play, when you morph a creature, its already in play, just changing what it is, so the ability wouldnt trigger...
@blindthrall
a simple giant growth on him and he smushes emrakul easily
Why use that combo?
T1: Forest, Birds of Paradise
T2:Swamp, Dark Ritual, Elvish Piper:
T3: This guy
Aw, crap, someone already said elvish piper. Didn't say how to do it, though.
Edit:
Dermoplasm is better.
@supershawn: Wizards once said they wouldn't do that because the number 20 gets pretty dangerous when it comes to cards that deal with characteristics of other cards - this would allow instant wins with a single spell, which would be pretty overpowered.
But who knows, they might someday change their mind though. Wouldn't be the first time after all Oo
Jeez, does anybody see that? Give it any ability and... damn!
I think the morph ability is a little but redundant, since it just reduces the cost by 1, but whatever, let it do what it does.
So how do they explain away Blightsteel Colossus then? Not only is it a one-swing win but they made it indestructible to boot. And don't even get me started on those ridiculous Eldrazi creatures! I guess power creep is just a fact of the game that we have to live with.
Still I love this card. It's big, it has cool art, and green makes trample easy.
Tragic Slip
Entries in a journal day to day:
A mysterious granite like insect appeared in the forest today. Upon investigation, it appeared to have nothing particularly astounding about it, other than its lack of eyes and still being perfectly able to find its way around.
The shell of the insect has cracked slightly. Perhaps it is merely molting.
Today I awoke to find a massive beast towering high above even the trees of great Krosa. Its massive footprints leave craters in its wake, crushing the trees and the mana within. It took a five teams of Elven Riders to take the beast down, and, only one unit survived. My greatest fear is that there are more of these beasts out there.
@supershawn
fling comes to mind as a reason against that. Or a green version of blazing shoals.
..he slipped
You have to consider the fact you don't get to see creatures with equivalent power/toughness beyond 9/9 that often. The horrifying effect this Earth Titan has is its power to morph in and out at anytime. Facing morph decks back then is a real pain in the a** due to the fact if you block or UNBLOCK the wrong creature, and the unblocked morphling turns out to this massive gorilla. Morph decks tend put any players at unease because you can't detect what is underneath.
Your game is pretty much over unless you are prepared with removal, though considering Blue Wizards in Onslaught Block have tendencies to make him unblockable as 2/2 morph creature, it's really a one-foot hammer threw at you, and while you think you can take it like a man, it suddenly morphed into a 1.7 ton truck coming your way. In short, its a big maul rammed up your a** if you don't block it.