Banding is already a kinda useless ability, cards that use to stop banding? lol
stygimoloch
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(12 votes)
LemonKeith, regular banding is actually a very powerful ability, even if it makes combat incredibly annoying.
Bands with other, on the other hand - which is all Brownie removes - is a *** terrible ability. Not a single creature in the game even has bands with other naturally.
However, I think the saddest thing about Shelkin Brownie is that it isn't even the worst green creature in Legends, at least until someone burns every copy of Wood Elemental in existence.
Gaussgoat
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
One of the worst creatures in my Green collection... I shake my head at this every time I see it. I agree with Styg though, to say that Banding is useless is crazy. Banding can be very powerful when used properly.
tom_hero
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(8 votes)
Obviously worth a green splash in B/U Faerie decks.
A3Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
And just to make him even more useless, WotC changed his creature type to 'Ouphe'.
Champion_Kitsune
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
ha, judging by the art, maybe they should lay off the brownies...
rimshot?
bijart_dauth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
currently the second loest rated card in the game. though sens i only know of 2 cards with "bands with others" abilitys, and one is unhinged, i would have to say i disagry, this should be the loest card.
brunsbr103
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
it doesn't taste like a brownie... it just tastes like cardboard
Kryptnyt
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(7 votes)
it still puts your opponent on a 20 turn clock if he or she hasn't done anything. Break Open has to be worse.
Duskdale_Wurm
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Nope, the Bears are better.
Auteur
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Had this removed banding in general in addition to just "bands with other", this still would be an extremely overcosted hoser to an underplayed mechanic. This essentially hinges on a player playing Adventurer's Guildhouse and its cycle. Or Master of the Hunt.
Aw man, finally, I find a card to deal with "bands with" abilities. Jesus, I thought my deck made entirely of forests would never make it big.
blindthrall
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I remember when I was young, I saved up 10 bucks to buy a pack of Legends, imagining all the overpowered brokeness I was going to get, and then I see this smug little turd. That was when I realized lack of playtesting is a double-edged sword.
Corey_bayoudragonfly
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(12 votes)
I somehow feel like this card is trying to molest me..
Ava_Adore
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Banding was insane, I started playing in mirage and everyone who thought banding was stupid just didnt understand it at all, (I didnt understand it at all either for about the first half of a year I played magic,
this card is stupid, something like this should have removed banding, and bands with other, it would be like making a card that says remove reach in a set with mostly flying and one or two spiders...
Superllama12
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(9 votes)
Thank goodness they had a hoser for "bands with others"...you don't know HOW MANY GAMES I HAVE LOST BECAUSE OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BaneSlayerKirby
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
KKK Brownies in the background...
Mr.Wimples
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Shelkin brownie is most pleased with you. Yes, most pleased...
sonorhC
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(4 votes)
2 mana for a green 1/1 creature, whose only ability is to negate the rarest ability in the game, and which is almost always useless even on the rare occasion it does show up. What's the justification, here?
tialdfswntta
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Quite possibly the most format defining card in any Standard environment, I miss the days when Legends was still standard and this card ruled against the endless onslaught of bands with other decks.
luca_barelli
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
This'll stop my friends from playing those overpowered Legends lands!
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Soory, no bowl of milk for you. I ain't afraid of that kind of mischief. Just...please stop staring at me like that.
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I still don't understand what Banding does. We all just assumed in our playgroup that it was just a keyword version of Palace Guard's ability. Instead I now stare at the reminder text under Benalish Hero and rack my brains over the apparent Raging River stapled to every card that has or gains this ability.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
This card's worst problem isn't the 1/1 for 2 body or even the anti-banding ability. It's the flavor text.
That's a lie! Everyone knows you should always leave a bowl of porridge for brownies, not milk.
Maybe if you fed it porridge instead of milk it would become somewhat more playable.
Radagast
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(5 votes)
While this guy is useless, you have to admit that he had a great idea - "bands with other" was never seen again after Legends, at least not on any tournament legal cards. So, now the Skelkin Brownie can rest easy in the Old Cards Retirement Home, knowing that his life goal of getting rid of stupid banding variations was finally achieved.
Shadoflaam
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(9 votes)
Lamp oil, rope, bombs! You want it, it's yours my friend--as long as you have enough rupees!
JimT70
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Banding being obsolete aside... The card's ruling is ridiculous. The wording "bands with others" was clearly an attempt to clarify the rules in the same way that "hexproof," "shroud," and "deathtouch" were added over the years. "Bands" and "banding" already imply "with others." The only clarification should have been rules of order. Blockers before damage is dealt, attackers before bands are declared, etc.
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Bands with other, on the other hand - which is all Brownie removes - is a *** terrible ability. Not a single creature in the game even has bands with other naturally.
However, I think the saddest thing about Shelkin Brownie is that it isn't even the worst green creature in Legends, at least until someone burns every copy of Wood Elemental in existence.
rimshot?
this card is stupid, something like this should have removed banding, and bands with other, it would be like making a card that says remove reach in a set with mostly flying and one or two spiders...
That's a lie! Everyone knows you should always leave a bowl of porridge for brownies, not milk.
Maybe if you fed it porridge instead of milk it would become somewhat more playable.
The card's ruling is ridiculous. The wording "bands with others" was clearly an attempt to clarify the rules in the same way that "hexproof," "shroud," and "deathtouch" were added over the years. "Bands" and "banding" already imply "with others." The only clarification should have been rules of order. Blockers before damage is dealt, attackers before bands are declared, etc.
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/21
"A creature with “bands with other Legends” CAN’T BAND WITH A LEGEND."
I mean .. really!?! That made that ability pretty useless unless you have Leyline of Singularity.
Finally a way to combat the seemingly-unstoppable onslaught of those damned bands-with-other-legends lands!
That is how I consider my collection of 100 Shelkin Brownies. All of them are in cases.