Only worth adding to your deck if it's a "change color of stuff" deck. Or maybe in casual multiplayer games, where you will have targets for this. Then the effect of the crab is devastating, making people draw cards which don't even make sense to play, since they get just put on their library again. Overall pretty weak though. Should have something like islandwalk, or be a 3/3 for 4, or require no mana to activate or something like that.
Crabby
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
One of my favorite cards. It's not strong considering the costs and it's ability realy make sense only if you have other cards in your deck to change the color (for example with Tidal Visionary). The artwork is good.
GradiustheFox
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Ah, nothing like a bit of dissonance between text and art. Heavy attack power and effectively an instant kill capability, but in the art it's clutching a lizard among some assumedly normal sized beach pebbles. Unless this Olivia person is a lizard... Anyway! Sure the effect is a little niche and the startup cost is a little high, but yikes. If you do hit a Green user you can lock them down from getting any fresh cards. And because of the 'unique' wording of the effect, it gets around Indestructibility and other such factors that would normally make something hard to kill, so it gets rid of stuff without fail. One fifth of the time, that is.
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Those do not look like "normal sized beach pebbles". They look more like boulders half-buried in the sand.
On another note, this creature has the highest power of any Crab in Magic.
izzet_guild_mage
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
...if your opponent resolved this and your mono-G deck hadn't already gone the distance, I get the feeling you'd be in for a whole new world of hurt...
auriscope
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@izzet_guild_mage, Out of curiosity, how exactly would this not resolve against monogreen?
Why is this crap and not homarid? Great homarids turned in crap crap.
Goatllama
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
WHERE'S ITS WEAK POINT!?
DritzD27
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Is your blue deck having trouble with Olivia Voldaren? This card reveals her weakness for you to exploit!
CRABS!
Also makes Past in Flames a depressing little card about how she is trying to get over the past trauma of her village being killed by burning the ruins to the ground.
DrJack
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Whoever said "Flavor text is win" should be smacked upside the head for such p!sspoor English. As the young ones might say, "Education system epic fail."
slothalot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
run this with Tidal Visionary and maybe some other color changing cards in a control deck, and you can possible shut down the opponents draw and/or creatures...I like this card
Lief098
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Given its ability, this might be one of the crabs mentioned in the flavor text of Academy Ruins.
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Overall pretty weak though. Should have something like islandwalk, or be a 3/3 for 4, or require no mana to activate or something like that.
Anyway! Sure the effect is a little niche and the startup cost is a little high, but yikes. If you do hit a Green user you can lock them down from getting any fresh cards. And because of the 'unique' wording of the effect, it gets around Indestructibility and other such factors that would normally make something hard to kill, so it gets rid of stuff without fail. One fifth of the time, that is.
On another note, this creature has the highest power of any Crab in Magic.
In a Mono-Green Stax deck, you can just Chalice of the Void for 6.
CRABS!
Also makes Past in Flames a depressing little card about how she is trying to get over the past trauma of her village being killed by burning the ruins to the ground.
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