Master of the Wild Hunt was printed in remembrance of this card, this time with some decent amount of awesome-sauce added. Yet i wonder why this guy isn't a Shaman then. Maybe because he's not wild enough?
Guest57443454
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(4 votes)
one of the most inane cards ever printed...thank you Wizards for finally printed a better version of this piece of junk...Even with the new functionality given to it by the M10 rules it still sucks royally...
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
@GainsBanding, they don't have ' Bands with Other Wolves', they have "Bands with Other creatures named Wolves of the Hunt'. It's the M10 rules change in how 'Bands with Other' works that makes this... still worthless.
Kefra
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Who rated this card so high? 4 mana in green shouldn't buy you a 2/2, ever, unless it has an awesome ability. This ability is horrendous. There are MUCH better ways to spend than pumping out one or two 1/1's every turn.
Shandalar legal combo time! This guy, Ashnod's Transmogrant, and Power Artifact! Only works on versions of shandalar with the Legends set though o.o
GainsBanding
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Nice that they errata'ed it to "Bands with other Wolves," now this card is... still worthless. EDIT: No longer applicable. Must have been a rules update since I posted my comment.
Superllama12
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(6 votes)
Hosed by Shelkin Brownie, and definitely needed to be, because otherwise, this card would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overpowered
tavaritz
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
My suggestion:
Get rid of 'band with others'. Errata all cards using it to use regular banding. Then reintroduce banding.
coffeeking13
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This was good(no where near great) a very long time ago. It's the art that has always killed me, never have i once thought of those as wolves! Master of the Bearded collie is more like it.
sonorhC
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
This actually wasn't bad, way back in the day. At the time, it was the only repeatable token generator that just cost mana, without a tap or a 1/turn or the like. And if you're generating a bunch of tokens, the "bands with other" could actually become relevant (the only time in the game that ability is ever relevant).
It's still horribly outclassed now, of course.
skaircrow
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(10 votes)
It's the art that has always killed me, never have i once thought of those as wolves! Master of the Bearded collie is more like it.
OK, just to clear that up—if you know your mythology, (LEGENDS, remember?) the Celtic master of the hunt USED HOUNDS to hunt— The wolves were the prey, not the predator. So yes, Master of the bearded collie is fairly accurate to the myth (Wolf HOUND, actually). It's the terminology on the card that that is inconsistent with the myth. I pointed that out to WOTC when the card came out, but it was done by then. WOTC would have had chances to get me to change them to wolves, if they had wanted it. Artists didn't get to see card text back then either, or I would have drawn them as wolves, regardless of the myth.
Later on they had me do a "token"— and that was a wolf, per WOTC's request.
Jeff A. Menges Yeah, that guy.
Thrull_Champion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Jeff A. Menges!
I'm a huge fan.
bay_falconer
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card makes no sense. Bands with other is an ability that doesn't actually band with other X, but bands with other creatures with "bands with other X". It requires two on the block and all on the attack.
All of this for a 2/2 for 2gg that for a tap and 2gg more can get you a 1/1, and you'll need two of them! Twelve mana over three turns to get a very unique token!
Legends is full of bizarre cards like this. Actually, I'm fairly convinced that Legends is like when you give green Ancestral Recall, only it's blue, a color nobody will accuse of being underpowered, that gets everything. Green, by contrast, gets...a 2/2 for 2gg that can produce 1/1 tokens with a completely irrelevant ability for 2gg and a tap. And Shelkin Brownie, a hoser for "bands with other". This set also started "blue gets strictly better creatures than green".
Synergy with Doubling Season: 1/5. You only have to pay 2gg and tap once to screw with your opponents in making them remember Magic's most obscure rule.
Technetium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This used to actually be a fairly valuable card, but it's really not very good, and it's not worth much anymore.
Kirbster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Slow your roll, Jeff.
DeepGreen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Garruk's dad seems preoccupied. Maybe he wishes he didn't suck so much?
legendary_orp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
10/4/2004 Since tapping is not part of the cost, you can use this more than once a turn.
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This guy, Ashnod's Transmogrant, and Power Artifact! Only works on versions of shandalar with the Legends set though o.o
EDIT: No longer applicable. Must have been a rules update since I posted my comment.
Get rid of 'band with others'. Errata all cards using it to use regular banding. Then reintroduce banding.
It's still horribly outclassed now, of course.
OK, just to clear that up—if you know your mythology, (LEGENDS, remember?) the Celtic master of the hunt USED HOUNDS to hunt— The wolves were the prey, not the predator. So yes, Master of the bearded collie is fairly accurate to the myth (Wolf HOUND, actually). It's the terminology on the card that that is inconsistent with the myth. I pointed that out to WOTC when the card came out, but it was done by then. WOTC would have had chances to get me to change them to wolves, if they had wanted it. Artists didn't get to see card text back then either, or I would have drawn them as wolves, regardless of the myth.
Later on they had me do a "token"— and that was a wolf, per WOTC's request.
Jeff A. Menges
Yeah, that guy.
I'm a huge fan.
All of this for a 2/2 for 2gg that for a tap and 2gg more can get you a 1/1, and you'll need two of them! Twelve mana over three turns to get a very unique token!
Legends is full of bizarre cards like this. Actually, I'm fairly convinced that Legends is like when you give green Ancestral Recall, only it's blue, a color nobody will accuse of being underpowered, that gets everything. Green, by contrast, gets...a 2/2 for 2gg that can produce 1/1 tokens with a completely irrelevant ability for 2gg and a tap. And Shelkin Brownie, a hoser for "bands with other". This set also started "blue gets strictly better creatures than green".
Synergy with Doubling Season: 1/5. You only have to pay 2gg and tap once to screw with your opponents in making them remember Magic's most obscure rule.
Thanks Wizards.