life and limb, my saprolings are forest too now, tap for mana, sac for draw
net cost, sacing a creature you should have a couple hundred of if played right
vrihet
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
{Mycoloth} + This = Awesomeness.
Tommy9898
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(3 votes)
The art is so boring, I can't tell what it is or what is going on. Put this art on a forest and no one would ever know.
DoctorKenneth
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Tommy9898: The art had the potential to give us some indication why this thallid is Psychotropic. Does it emit some kind of hallucinogenic ooze? Are the saprolings it produces coated in psychoactive neurotoxin (tiny poison-dart saprolings would be quite interesting, no doubt)? Maybe they should have shown us that. Granted, that's a bit of an artistic challenge, but otherwise, we simply have an oozing mutant pinecone laying about in the forest.
Maybe show it through a trippy kind of focus? Have some saprolings in the picture, with bright poison-warning skin?
Otherwise, this is one of the more useful thallid effects. Some of these gentlemen can be a little underwhelming, but this one has some utility. Card draw is certainly not a negligible effect.
NARFNra
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Nice effect, but may take a while. If it can take one from another card it'll be fun though.
Lateralis0ne
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
My friend built a brutal Saproling deck that used this to draw his entire library in one turn if he chose. One with ten million tokens via Mycoloth by turn five on a good day. Somewhat annoying to play over and over, but always a good laugh when you just wanted good ol' weenie swarming.
Cyberium
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
The sac->draw ability can be used the turn it comes into play. In a saproling or fungus deck there's no lack of tokens to sac. No need to wait for the spores.
Kindulas
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Is... is the rating low because people are juding based on the cards it can get on its own? I wouldn't care much if it couldn't make saprolings, that sacrifice ability alone is spectacular. Saprolings people, that #1 "I have a bazillion tokens" creature type. Rith/Ghave EDH all the way
Pigfish99
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This buddy here is a must in any saproling deck. Sure, your deck will prosper without it, but this guys provides DRAWING for green, which is vital when you have all the mana acceleration you need.
Well, as for the art not explaining the card...the name does that. Psychotrope means "A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that crosses the blood–brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function." So basically this guy can mulch up saprolings and distil them into some sort of brain-altering drug that is administered to you so you can learn the secrets of the universe. To me the organ-like nature of the Thallid rather fits this actually. Its many tentacles serve to intake mulched saproling and output its mind-altering payload. The bulbous body is basically a massive organ for undergoing this task and it has this aesthetic.
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net cost, sacing a creature you should have a couple hundred of if played right
Maybe show it through a trippy kind of focus? Have some saprolings in the picture, with bright poison-warning skin?
Otherwise, this is one of the more useful thallid effects. Some of these gentlemen can be a little underwhelming, but this one has some utility. Card draw is certainly not a negligible effect.