think of it this way, a 1/1 flash for one mana. Pretty good for devouring or blocking and buffing.
Capo
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Pair this up with Isochron Scepter and you get a token per turn. Pair that up with Doubling Season and you're getting a two-for-one deal. Not too shabby, in my opinion.
Tommy9898
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
Works with the thalids that sac saprolings for abilities.
I hate it when all people can only think about is how well things work with doubling season. Doubling season, intruder alarm, and isochron scepter. 3 cards that require no thought at all.
Zulp
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Awww. It's cute!
ddde
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Keep in mind that if this were an ability for G on a creature to bring out a 1/1 saproling this would be insanely cheap, but it's not. In addition to the casting cost you also lose a draw, and a card slot in your deck. I generally assign the value of a draw and a card slot in my deck (somewhat arbitrarily) as 3 mana, so when I want to compare the value of cards I just add 3 mana cost to each of them and consider them to be like abilities. So, for example, as an ability, this would cost 4, balduvian bears would cost 5, with the restriction that it can only be played as a sorcery. Anyway, it's not bad, but it's not great either.
You can't really compare this to Flash Foliage, Flash foliage is great in it's own right. As you can put a 1/1 creature in front of just about anything that doesn't have pro-green or pro-Instants. You can put that sap into play blocking flyers, things with shadow, unblockable things, things with fear, things with intimidate, and things with landwalk. It also replaces itself. Yes, I'd for the most part rather use a fog variant, but it's hard to compare the two as they are meant to do different things.
TheWrathofShane
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Missing the point. This is a must for pollymorph decks because its not a creature, but gives you a creature token.
Areps
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
SPROUT
Quentil
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Has some use in some decks. Admittedly, casual ones. Still, it's a fun little trick to play.
Stinga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
TERMINATE IT AND LET DEMIGOD OF REVENGE RULE ALL THE SPIRIT AVATARS!
Buderus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Sprout, sprout, let it all out, these are the spells I can do without Come on, I'm talking to you, come on"
No seriously, a very nice card. What nobody has mentioned yet is that you get a kind of Cardadvantage too; for instance you could use this in a Threshold deck and start filling it your Graveyard Round 1. Can't do that with Thallid.
Vitality Charm is of courser more versatile, but insects? Meh... Most Decks in green that want alot of Tokens would rather have Saprolings (e.g. for echoing Courage)
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I hate it when all people can only think about is how well things work with doubling season. Doubling season, intruder alarm, and isochron scepter. 3 cards that require no thought at all.
~Eridanis
You can't really compare this to Flash Foliage, Flash foliage is great in it's own right. As you can put a 1/1 creature in front of just about anything that doesn't have pro-green or pro-Instants. You can put that sap into play blocking flyers, things with shadow, unblockable things, things with fear, things with intimidate, and things with landwalk. It also replaces itself. Yes, I'd for the most part rather use a fog variant, but it's hard to compare the two as they are meant to do different things.
Come on, I'm talking to you, come on"
No seriously, a very nice card. What nobody has mentioned yet is that you get a kind of Cardadvantage too; for instance you could use this in a Threshold deck and start filling it your Graveyard Round 1. Can't do that with Thallid.
Vitality Charm is of courser more versatile, but insects? Meh...
Most Decks in green that want alot of Tokens would rather have Saprolings (e.g. for echoing Courage)