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It costs way too much and it can only attack players with blue decks. Oh, did I mention that it costs too much? Really, if wizards was going to design a useful serpent, then it should have an extremely low mana cost. If this serpent cost three, then it would make more sense to keep him in a sideboard against other blue decks. But when your paying eight for a creature with no useful abilities that has defender most of the time, then your wasting an opportunity to play something useful, morph creature or not.

I tried to use it as a coaster for my tea, but it's too small. So I guess it isn't good for anything after all.

Um, momentary blink it when it is morphed? But there are so many better targets, even if you do turn one of there lands into an island.

This is in the blue Planar Chaos precon.
In playing some casual games, i discovered a delightful little nuance.
Attack while this guy is face down, then flip it.
You are now attacking with a 6/6.

Overall though, Islandhome always has and always will be terrible.

epic fail, no wait its such a fail it's almost a win.

The only good use I've found for this guy is in my Timesifter deck. He costs eight, which wins nearly all of the time, but also has morph, so I can actually play it in one form or another. Basically, it's Scornful Egotist 5-8.

Otherwise, yes, not very impressive.

Power creep? What power creep?

What happens when sea monster decides to suck even more.

Won't somebody please Energy Tap him?

someday serpens will become usable... i believe..

Not another f***ing serpent...

What you're supposed to do is morph it, then attack and unmorph after the declare attackers step. It still is a bad card, but in limited, it acts as a decent finisher

Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.

This card references Sea Serpent.

Islandhome (and landhome in general; yes, there were others) was a terrible idea — nothing but a drawback on cards that would have been no better than mediocre without it. This card, of course, would be incredibly happy to be called mediocre. A 6/6 is already quite abysmal, and adding islandhome turns it into a nigh-unplayable wreck of a card. Even the morph mechanic doesn't save it. You hear of many cards that combo with other things. Well, this combos with losing. 0.5/5.

At worst, it's a Grey Ogre.

This is actually a two for one in Time Spiral references. It references Sea Serpent and Slipstream Eel, it has each of their disadvantages!

One interesting note: Even if your opponent has no islands, if this guy is facedown, you can attack with him and then flip him, and he'll remain an attacking creature -- the check to see if someone is allowed to attack only happens when attackers are declared; they don't later stop attacking if things change.

Of course, you won't be able to attack after that. And he still sucks; he'd suck even without islandhome. Seriously, why did they always treat Islandhome like it was an advantage?

This card is rated a full 2 stars below Horrible Hordes. Is Rampage really that good?

Yes, it's an 8-mana Sea Serpent when played face-up, but it has morph. Most of the time, it's a Gray Ogre with the bonus of potentially being something like Brine Elementa, for all your opponent knows. Given that many limited decks play multiple colors, there's actually a pretty good chance that you'll be able to flip it and start bashing. At the very least, it can be a surprise 6/6 wall, which is actually not all that bad. Plus it's splashable.

Literally every Gray Ogre variant is rated higher than this. No, it's not going to see play in Constructed, it's made for Limited, but it's not nearly as bad as you people think.

Also, what HairlessThoctar said. Morph lets you bypass the no-attack limitation.