Why print this cycle, at this point in the game, mountainwalk was present on very few cards, and not too many have been printed since...It's not Great Wall though...If you really need this kind of protection, Staff of the Ages has you covered, and even then it's relatively junk
There was really no reason to print this cycle in Legends. There was a cycle of Legends that had these anti-landwalk abilities. Printing TWO cycles of virtually identical anti-landwalk effects in the same set, which was itself deficient in landwalk (not that it was ever very common) is excessive. The only explanation I can come up with is: someone in design decided that landwalk was too powerful of an effect, and was trying to make it obsolete.
tavaritz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
But just look at that beautiful picture by Rob Alexander.
SkyknightXi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm pretty sure that when this was first printed, this was a card NO goblin deck ever wanted to see (what with the only special tribal quality the goblins GOT being mountainwalk...well, potentially also being +4/+4, but the point still stands).
I can just imagine the artist walking into the office with his finished product, rightfully proud, only to be crushed when he learns what a useless piece of garbage his picture is being associated with.
Claytoon
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Takes up 4 slots in my sideboard to counter the current hot Mountain Goat meta that is running wild.
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I can just imagine the artist walking into the office with his finished product, rightfully proud, only to be crushed when he learns what a useless piece of garbage his picture is being associated with.