Sure, it's cheap, but letting everyone else drop an expensive creature for free just isn't worth it. If you can place it lategame, it works. Seeing someone play one with a hand full of non-creature spells is depressing.
Works nicely in a team game, however. Playing that Prince of Thralls or other prohibitively expensive creature on turn 4 is always nice.
liir007
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I have always loved this creature in hand destruction decks. Wreck their hand first, and terror anything that accidently comes out.....
littlebeast
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(5 votes)
Hunt the Wumpus!
Anyone got a dodecahedron?
bigben013
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(13 votes)
It was all fun and beatdown until my opponent dropped a Darksteel Colossus D:
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Staple in spell-range commander.
Shieldman
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Alright card, but...
"Wumpus"??
achilleselbow
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Deserves a better rating. Doesn't give your opponent card advantage, and late game the drawback is almost non-existent. Especially great in a Golgari-colored deck with stuff like Ostracize or Last Rites.
Eved
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great early game card if you have a creature removal spell on hand. (Doom Blade, Terror, and Path to Exile to name off the most popular)
RareCardHunter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Before casting this, use Peek. Summon as many as you can if there is no creature in your opponent's hand.
Weary_PSI
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You're really rolling the dice with this card. Back in the day my buddy liked to play these, and I lost track of the number of times he got an Avatar of Woe dropped on him because of it. Really not worth the risk.
divine_exodus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Best to use when you know your opponent's hand (telepathy) or when they have no cards in their hand. Used properly he is quite formidable.
Gabriel422
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This saw play as a 4-of in sideboards of aggro decks in its day, as a huge beatstick against other aggro decks.
Before Tarmogoyf and Nyxathid, this was a good finisher in discard decks.
Superllama12
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
But it's a freaking WUMPUS!!! How can it NOT be good???
redsoxftw
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Hunted Wumpus + Emrakul, The Aeons Torn. (=
HuntedWumpusMustDie
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Found you.
CallmeMerry
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Gather Specimens. That'll genuinely *** a lot of people off, assuming you have the 10 mana it costs to pull off (which isn't impossible with green ramp).
oldtimer96
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you don't know what a wumpus is, don't worry. It just means you're not a middle-aged computer geek.
MetalSky
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Hunted Wumpus followed by a simple Cancel card could suffice (I don't think I need to link the Cancel card-at least I hope I don't have to).
There needs to be a wumpus hunter card or something to go along with it
RedZeko
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
What is a wumpus for if not to wump?
j_mindfingerpainter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Let me be the first to refer to the flavor text. If just one can feed a dozen people for a month, assuming they eat 3 meals a day and assuming 30 days is a month, that means 1080 meals (3x30x12) can be made with one of these.
I'm not skeptical, I just would like to see that happen.
Speednat
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
My daughter just picked up this card, I am going to make sure I have my Venser, the Sojourner deck to mess with her, and flicker her wumpus. insert evil laugh here
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Multiplayer politics FTW.
asandberge
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Too bad this card is only good in a combo that really isn't that good.
I still have two in my green and black deck. I just threw in Dark Rituals and stuff that can end games early, like Eater of Days. I use this with Turntimber Basilisk. I play this and play a land after my opponent plays their creature, then I attack with the Basilisk, forcing the creature to block, killing both the basilisk and other creature.
nemokara
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@j_mindfingerpainter,
A full-grown elephant weighs well in excess of 10,000 pounds. Let's assume two-thirds of that is edible meat or organs. So you'd have just about 7,000 pounds to work with, which works out to almost 6 1/2 pounds per person per meal, using your meal count. Now, given that in MTG most elephants are 3/3, I'd say the wumpus would have no trouble feeding that many people, and could possibly feed many more (depending on how much you could preserve before it started spoiling).
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Two-Headed Giant. Invite your friend's Emrakul to the party.
Indigenuity
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Speednat: "Flicker her Wumpus", eh? Almost makes you wish the "Report Abuse" link led somewhere else....
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would be so lulzy to see someone drop a Hunted Wumpus from this effect. 3/5 Stars
steinburger1109
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Because I found it interesting posted on the eighth edition card...
"Surprised no one else has mentioned the reference, so...
"Hunt the Wumpus" is an early computer game first released in text-based form in 1972. The first version with graphics debuted in 1980. The object of the game is, not surprisingly, to shoot the Wumpus as you chase it through a grid of rooms.
Pretty friendly card to have in-hand if you let your buddies know you have it. Or else, just keep it on the battlefield and use cloudshift on it when blockers are being declared, and suddenly all your teamates have supermen out to play with even if all their lands have long been destroyed
@Speednat: I think it's illegal to flicker your daughter's wumpus...
PennStater77
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If this card is played and my opponent plays a creature, does it count as them summoning a creature? Just wondering because I had an Opal Gargoyle in play at the time.
docjarvisd09
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No, I get it. This is like a win-less card. You're already winning, but you just want to make your opponent feel like they have something to do, even though you have a Garruk Wildspeaker that says otherwise
Thrawcheld
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Doesn't have sucker feet. Seems the artist never actually played the game.
Comments (38)
Works nicely in a team game, however. Playing that Prince of Thralls or other prohibitively expensive creature on turn 4 is always nice.
Anyone got a dodecahedron?
"Wumpus"??
You're really rolling the dice with this card. Back in the day my buddy liked to play these, and I lost track of the number of times he got an Avatar of Woe dropped on him because of it. Really not worth the risk.
Before Tarmogoyf and Nyxathid, this was a good finisher in discard decks.
Putting into play =/= playing/casting
An Unsummon could work though!
I'm not skeptical, I just would like to see that happen.
insert evil laugh here
I still have two in my green and black deck. I just threw in Dark Rituals and stuff that can end games early, like Eater of Days. I use this with Turntimber Basilisk. I play this and play a land after my opponent plays their creature, then I attack with the Basilisk, forcing the creature to block, killing both the basilisk and other creature.
A full-grown elephant weighs well in excess of 10,000 pounds. Let's assume two-thirds of that is edible meat or organs. So you'd have just about 7,000 pounds to work with, which works out to almost 6 1/2 pounds per person per meal, using your meal count. Now, given that in MTG most elephants are 3/3, I'd say the wumpus would have no trouble feeding that many people, and could possibly feed many more (depending on how much you could preserve before it started spoiling).
3/5 Stars
"Surprised no one else has mentioned the reference, so...
"Hunt the Wumpus" is an early computer game first released in text-based form in 1972. The first version with graphics debuted in 1980. The object of the game is, not surprisingly, to shoot the Wumpus as you chase it through a grid of rooms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus"
Good with card-advantage discard like Mind Rot, Hymn to Tourach, Wrench Mind, etc..
Force them into top-deck mode and you get a 6/6 trampler for 4, with essentially no drawback.
also check out Boldwyr Heavyweights if you enjoy this flavor but in red
@Speednat: I think it's illegal to flicker your daughter's wumpus...