actually useful to both save one of your creatures and/or suprise your opponent while blocking. or you bounce itself for some cip effects...would be quite awesome as 1/1 one-drop from that point of view^^
HappyKitty
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(4 votes)
Sometimes I have fantasies about this card, plus Aluren and Pandemonium. It would require so much diabolical orchestration just to pull off, but man... infinite amount of damage to any target, at instant speed.
BrutalJim
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Stonecloaker seems better in my opinion, still both are very good.
Note: You just have to avoid letting Bloodthorn Taunter from being killed though When your opponent thinks that you're going to sacrifice Cosmic Larva, this will make them think twice xD
Before the M10 rule changes, how was this comes-into-play "drawback" ever really a drawback?
kiseki
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
A strong flexible, NON-TARGETING card. I consider it for every mono white deck, and others besides. I love having aura shards out with this. It becomes a reusable disenchant. If the other player never targets your stuff, you can still use it to get your come into play effects working again. This is better than the stonecloaker. It has 90% of the power for 67% of the cost. You do get more for the extra colorless mana, but since it is a responsive creature, you need to leave mana untapped, and I would rather have that extra mana to spend during my turn. If you have something like the shards or pandemonium out, you can run this more often.
Tommy9898
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
It was fun drafting that set because you could try to go white/red and combo this guy with keldon marauders and get lots of extra come-into-play/leave-play abilities to trigger.
Atali
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@ TDL It was never meant to be a drawback, it's a perk that can backfire once in a while. If what you need is a 2/2 creature (for any reason), but have no other creatures, you can't just cast this.
Buderus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Likes to bounce itself to activate Etb-effects
ChaosK
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I really like the white flavor on this one. It feels like the lion rushes in (flash) to save another creature (gating/bounce)
Ava_Adore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Tidehollow Scullers best friend?
Undertakerx7
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is a mono white Fleetfoot Panther. Of course Fleetfoot Panther is much better.
This + the Venser Emblem becomes "Tap 2, exile target permanent." Just keep bouncing him and spam your lion.
In a turn they'll have lost most of their lands, by two turns they probably have nothing left to cast with, by three turns their side is empty. Unless I'm mistaken.
Kontrah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This worked so well with other Vanishing creatures from the same set. When Planar Chaos was released, a friend made a pretty sollid R/W Boros style deck that ran most of the red/white Vanishing cards and a suite of burns. Between Lion and Momentary Blink, you end up with a lot of activations for Keldon Marauder, Aven Rif***cher, Stingscourger, and a surprisingly resilient Calciderm.
This was much more difficult to deal with pre-M10 of course...but even now, those ETB/LTB triggers are still fairly powerful, and the Lion is one of the most recyclable.
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or you bounce itself for some cip effects...would be quite awesome as 1/1 one-drop from that point of view^^
Cosmic Larva+Bloodthorn Taunter+ This=
Repeated 7/6 attacks
1- Play Bloodthorn Taunter
2- Play Cosmic Larva and haste it using bloodthorn taunter
3- Just before its beginning of your upkeep again, play Whitemane Lion to unsummon Cosmic Larva and resume the attacks :)
Note: You just have to avoid letting Bloodthorn Taunter from being killed though
When your opponent thinks that you're going to sacrifice Cosmic Larva, this will make them think twice xD
This is better than the stonecloaker. It has 90% of the power for 67% of the cost. You do get more for the extra colorless mana, but since it is a responsive creature, you need to leave mana untapped, and I would rather have that extra mana to spend during my turn. If you have something like the shards or pandemonium out, you can run this more often.
It was never meant to be a drawback, it's a perk that can backfire once in a while.
If what you need is a 2/2 creature (for any reason), but have no other creatures, you can't just cast this.
In a turn they'll have lost most of their lands, by two turns they probably have nothing left to cast with, by three turns their side is empty. Unless I'm mistaken.
This was much more difficult to deal with pre-M10 of course...but even now, those ETB/LTB triggers are still fairly powerful, and the Lion is one of the most recyclable.