OH, dang, a (insert terribly annoying good card here) well... sheep-ping.
:D
sir_dwar
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(8 votes)
Not the most useful card, but who cares. You just turned your opponents monster into a SHEEP! HOW IS THAT NOT AWESOME?
EDIT: On further reflection, this card is actually quite powerful. Because its an instant, you can play it any time. So you can turn a big charging enemy creature into a sheep after it attacks but before it deals damage, and then almost all creatures, even weenies, will kill it! As far as I can see, this is one of the few ways to get a darksteel colossus into the discard pile.
That is one of the dream cards I'd looove to have...^^
Nighthawk42
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Clearly World of Warcraft inflence here.
Nice card for sideboarding. Usually an easier way to get rid of something though.
nammertime
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
It's nice for blue, since we don't always want to be countering big creatures. I prefer Pongify though.
preludeoflight
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
So, my brother and I were paying last night, and he used this on one of my creatures. That creature also had an enchantment that gave him +0/+2, and an equipment that gave him +3/+0, lifelink, and trample. We weren't sure how to handle it, so we just let the creature be 0/1 with no abilities, but then had the enchantment and equipment still apply. After we talked about it, we decided that it made sense that Ovinize should probably nullify the enchantment as well, but the equipment should be left untouched.
I couldn't find anything in the rules about how exactly the abilities/bonuses from an aura are added to a creature, so I didn't know if they should be overridden. Any ideas? Either way. What a fun card!
Gaussgoat
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(9 votes)
Great way to deal with anything that is indestructable, or that has protection. Shroud is still a problem, but hey, nothing is perfect ;)
Plus... it turns the guy into a sheep. Come on... that is hillarious.
5/5
ClockworkSwordfish
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(9 votes)
More like Bovinize.
BrutalJim
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Incredibly useful, I love it when my opponent blocks with his strongest creature and I kill it blocking with my Merfolk Looter, and my looter doesn't even die. Also love the flavor about this card.
Vizzerdrix80
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
I'm not sure why you actually don't turn them into a 'sheep' type. Seems that even if you don't destroy the creature as Pongify, the flavor would be better for it.
Ladnarud
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This is actually an exceedingly good card, even when compared to cards like Sudden Spoiling and Snakeform. Each of these 3 cards have their own pros and cons compared to each other.
Sudden Spoiling Pros: —turns ALL creatures a target player controls —split second, blocking out response spells Cons: —turns creatures into 2 toughness, which can be annoying if you can only ping them for 1 damage and not kill them (assuming that's what you want to do in the first place)
Snakeform Pros: —turns the creature GREEN until end of turn, which can take away many restrictions and open up possibilities (including 'non-color' restrictions) —you get to draw a card as an instant as well Cons: —gives the creature 1 power, which can still do damage (even as low as it may be) —it's very costly for a spell with only 1 target
Ovinize Pros: —lower mana cost than others —turns a creature into the weakest possible creature, at 0/1, which is absolutely no threat in any way on its own and can be very easily disposed of Cons: —it has no extra effects and only targets 1 creature
pushbuttonmagic
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Are you sure that's an indestructible Spearbreaker Behemoth? BAAAAA!!!!
Horsemanship
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(34 votes)
Kozilek, Provider of Wool.
Tobinator
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
man, this is about as good as blue creature removal gets. and I like it!
OutlawD1
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Now that Diminish has made this ability a truly blue one, I would like this card to return
__Silence__
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Use it in response of stuffy doll's ability Player 1: I tap stuffy doll you lose 1 life... Player 2: Wait the ability is still on the stack ok I use ovinize your stuffy doll dies... Player 1: I play raise dead... Player 2: I have another ovinize...
Kirbster
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
So, I heard about this Gaze of the Gorgon variant in Time Spiral block. It's also got a Canopy Claws effect on it, and something like the second part of Interdict. It also has a Fatal Blow thing going on. And Fend Off. Plus it can do some other things. I think that this rumor is crazy; how much would a card like that have to cost?
Apparently, one and a blue.
Stray_Dog
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Yeah the sheep creature type would be very flavourful and would be useful for handling creatures with powerful creature types (if I am assuming correctly that the original creature type/s would be replaced?)
MasterOfEtherium
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(4 votes)
My Mattress Is A SERTA
Anggul
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(10 votes)
Hot damn I used to love this card.
Something about turning Akroma, Angel of Wrath into a sheep and stepping on it pleased me.
scumbling1
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(14 votes)
"More like Bovinize."
Cows and sheep are of of the same Family type -- Bovidae. Hovever sheep are of the Subfamily Caprinae and Genus of Ovis. So, more like Ovinize.
Polychromatic
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(9 votes)
Every single piece of art by Terese Nielsen is beautiful. Absolutely my favorite artist in Magic, by far.
jsttu
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(27 votes)
"BAAAAAA" -Blightsteel Colossus
reapersaurus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Snakeform is better, since you draw a card for only 1 mana more. And isn't card advantage what is always talked about in Magic?
Moleland
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Lol
This card is just epic, even if the effect wasn't that useful (Which of course, it is) :D
Dragonmaster3.0
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
It's a Dungeons and Dragons joke right down to the flavor text. Nice card all the same; it's a blue Humble!
Shadoflaam
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(14 votes)
"Um, why is my Eldrazi so... fluffy?" "SHEARIN' TIME KOZILEK!"
Tomorrowe
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Doesn't make it a sheep? Missed opportunity with Goatnapper
Khultar
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
i think that sheep was a gravedigger!
Joseph_Leito
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
@jsstu: You win forever.
This is one of my favorite cards ever, just because there's nothing quite so funny as turning Titans into sheep.
Snakeform is not "better", it really depends on the application. 0/1 is so combolicious with Merfolk Thaumaturgist, and costs less. Now I'm not trying to say Ovinize is "better" either, its more about what you are trying to do. drawing cards is nice, and green getting this ability is the bee's knees... do bee's really have knees?
I wish I saw more oddball removal spells like this played. "I turn your Blightsteel Colossus into a sheep, and then block with my Storm Crow" is just so much more fun to hear than most alternatives.
Corey_bayoudragonfly
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@JL2736: No, this cannot be used to deal with ETB triggered abilities, as those trigger before players get priority. It also does not work with vanishing, as that triggers at the beginning of the upkeep.
JL2736
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Very useful utility card. Besides the already mentioned uses of turning eldrazi into sheep, this card can also be cast in response to your own phyrexian dreadnought's trigger, or any other creature with a negative ETB trigger. It can also be used to keep your permanents with vanishing from being sacrificed, and i'm sure this is just the beginning.
EDIT: @Corey_bayoudragonfly: If you read the rulings on this card, it specifically states that this card CAN deal with vanishing. Also, ETB abilities do not resolve before players get priority, so they can be responded to (for instance, the well-known example of playing Stifle on phyrexian dreadnought).
Tiggurix
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@NinjaShadow: To answer your last inquiry: No, bees do not have "knees" as we understand it, since they are arthropods. In fact, they pretty much have the inverse of our knees, as their skeletons are effectively their skin and the ligaments of their legs lie within their external skeleton, in contrast to us, as our bones, and thus knees, lie within our muscle and skin tissue.
Raibys
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Yeah, everyone knows sheep are better than cows"
-Teferi
Zylo-
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Two mana to have my 1/1 creature destroy your legendary at instant speed? How can you not love that....
This is better than any card that has "gives creature -/-" and way more fun to play.
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I read this as 'Destroy target blocking or blocked creature'
Habreno
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Was playing a FFA when someone decided to play this in response to me declaring Ajani's Pridemate an attacker, as a 12/12 (10 +1/+1 counters on it).
Others reactions: Pointless, it's still a 10/11 coming at your face...
Person being attacked: I guess. Kinda worthless. *takes 12*
My thoughts: Not entirely worthless, but kind of as it removes the ability to add counters to it.
SHEEP CAN KILL!
Mattao19
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm converting my casual deck into a standard one and I'm trying to replace my Ovinize any suggestions?
(BTW I play with a Grixis deck)
Havens
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@JL2736:
Maybe you should reread the rulings on ETB effects. Lets take your Phyrexian Dreadnought example.
Phyrexian Dreadnought enters the battlefield, since no one has priority before it's ETB ability can trigger, it triggers and goes on the stack.
Then in response you Ovinize it. Ovinize goes on the stack above the triggered ability. Ovinize resolves.
Now Phyrexian Dreadnought's triggered ability goes to resolve, you still have to sacrifice creatures equally 12 power or the Dreadnought itself. Just because the original ability is gone, doesn't mean the existing one on the stack goes away.
Warjam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hoped that turning my goats into sheep would save them from Goatnapper. Alas, creature type remains unchanged, and my goats continue to be at risk.
mrchuckmorris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My buddy was about to wreak defensive havok on me with his Creepy Doll... until it grew and sprouted wool. This card plus any sort of damaging creature/planeswalker/spell is a must if you simply can't beat that deck full of indestructables or things that punish you for combatting them, and the nullification of abilities is pretty sweet in and of itself.
Demonic_Math_Tutor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It really is too bad it does not change the creature type, or else I would have thrown this in my Goatnapper deck.
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OH, dang, a (insert terribly annoying good card here) well... sheep-ping.
:D
EDIT: On further reflection, this card is actually quite powerful. Because its an instant, you can play it any time. So you can turn a big charging enemy creature into a sheep after it attacks but before it deals damage, and then almost all creatures, even weenies, will kill it! As far as I can see, this is one of the few ways to get a darksteel colossus into the discard pile.
I agree. Even better, though: Sudden Spoiling! :-)
That is one of the dream cards I'd looove to have...^^
Nice card for sideboarding. Usually an easier way to get rid of something though.
I couldn't find anything in the rules about how exactly the abilities/bonuses from an aura are added to a creature, so I didn't know if they should be overridden. Any ideas? Either way. What a fun card!
Plus... it turns the guy into a sheep. Come on... that is hillarious.
5/5
Sudden Spoiling
Pros:
—turns ALL creatures a target player controls
—split second, blocking out response spells
Cons:
—turns creatures into 2 toughness, which can be annoying if you can only ping them for 1 damage and not kill them (assuming that's what you want to do in the first place)
Snakeform
Pros:
—turns the creature GREEN until end of turn, which can take away many restrictions and open up possibilities (including 'non-color' restrictions)
—you get to draw a card as an instant as well
Cons:
—gives the creature 1 power, which can still do damage (even as low as it may be)
—it's very costly for a spell with only 1 target
Ovinize
Pros:
—lower mana cost than others
—turns a creature into the weakest possible creature, at 0/1, which is absolutely no threat in any way on its own and can be very easily disposed of
Cons:
—it has no extra effects and only targets 1 creature
Player 1: I tap stuffy doll you lose 1 life...
Player 2: Wait the ability is still on the stack ok I use ovinize your stuffy doll dies...
Player 1: I play raise dead...
Player 2: I have another ovinize...
Apparently, one and a blue.
Something about turning Akroma, Angel of Wrath into a sheep and stepping on it pleased me.
Cows and sheep are of of the same Family type -- Bovidae. Hovever sheep are of the Subfamily Caprinae and Genus of Ovis. So, more like Ovinize.
-Blightsteel Colossus
And isn't card advantage what is always talked about in Magic?
This card is just epic, even if the effect wasn't that useful (Which of course, it is) :D
"SHEARIN' TIME KOZILEK!"
This is one of my favorite cards ever, just because there's nothing quite so funny as turning Titans into sheep.
THEIR CREATURES ASHEEP, GOGOGO
Just sayin.
EDIT: @Corey_bayoudragonfly: If you read the rulings on this card, it specifically states that this card CAN deal with vanishing. Also, ETB abilities do not resolve before players get priority, so they can be responded to (for instance, the well-known example of playing Stifle on phyrexian dreadnought).
-Teferi
This is better than any card that has "gives creature -/-" and way more fun to play.
Others reactions: Pointless, it's still a 10/11 coming at your face...
Person being attacked: I guess. Kinda worthless. *takes 12*
My thoughts: Not entirely worthless, but kind of as it removes the ability to add counters to it.
SHEEP CAN KILL!
(BTW I play with a Grixis deck)
Maybe you should reread the rulings on ETB effects. Lets take your Phyrexian Dreadnought example.
Phyrexian Dreadnought enters the battlefield, since no one has priority before it's ETB ability can trigger, it triggers and goes on the stack.
Then in response you Ovinize it. Ovinize goes on the stack above the triggered ability. Ovinize resolves.
Now Phyrexian Dreadnought's triggered ability goes to resolve, you still have to sacrifice creatures equally 12 power or the Dreadnought itself. Just because the original ability is gone, doesn't mean the existing one on the stack goes away.
"For your crimes against humanity, you will now till the farmstead!"
"Baa?"