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Skittering Monstrosity

Multiverse ID: 118878

Skittering Monstrosity

Comments (13)

Etregan
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0) (2 votes)
How is this useful?
Tommy9898
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Just use it as the only creature in your deck, then he is a 5/5 for 5 in black. If you need to have an army than there are plenty zombie token makers.
allmighty_abacus
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@tommy9898

even if it's the only creature in your deck, there are far better options for a beat down card. the lack of any evasion makes this quite unappealing.
metalevolence
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Outclassed at every turn. Yukora, the Prisoner off the top of my head.
Shiny_Umbreon
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (2 votes)
Sure, Yukora is better, because you don't want one of your creatures dead. You want all of them.
Test-Subject_217601
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (4 votes)
Not as good as its smaller cousin Skittering Horror.
tcollins
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (3 votes)
But the art is so COOL
Superllama12
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
Maybe if it costed 3 or something it would work...
Baconradar
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (4 votes)
This isn't as bad as people are making out. If you ignore the recent silly overpowered creatures, black getting a 5/5 for 5 is a fine deal. Just use it in a creature light deck. It isn't even like it can't be used with other creatures - you can have already cast them. You can cast them and accept this dies. It's a 2 star card imo.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yeah, horrid. That's the word I'd use to describe it.
Werewolf-
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Actually it is just as bad as people are making it out to be.

Skittering Horror was at least somewhat useful because it was aggressively costed, netting you a 4/3 for only 3 mana. I don't know what they were thinking when they designed this card, they took a card with a benefit and a drawback and timeshifted it into a card with all drawback. It could've been a 6/5 trampler for 5 with the sacrifice ability, that would've made it more like its predecessor.
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.

This card references Skittering Horror, even down to it's flavor text.
Meatloaf_Wizard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would be sweet with FLASH