If you mention mindslaver or an equally convoluted situation you're wrong because shut up.
leomistico
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ LordRandomness Maybe your quest is neverending because it's totally useless and you're totally wrong...?
Trygon_Predator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@LordRandomness:
You seem to be missing the point of "strictly better". In a vacuum, no choices other than this card and Goblin War Paint, Goblin War Paint is more splashable and grants haste, making it strictly better. If you have to add a second card to make something better, that makes it the inferior option.
By that logic you could say that Deepwood Ghoul is better than Black Lotus because combined with Donate and Mindslaver you win instantly. Every card can be a winner with the right support - the good ones are the ones that don't need it.
Raexs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Whoa! That thing is able to pull all those things by himself? He must be super strong, or something.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Those cabins carry his collection of Magic: The Gathering cards. He smells too bad to get a Mr. Suitcase to work for him.
So continues my neverending quest to prove that nothing is actually strictly better than anything! (okay not really)
@everyone: Yeah, yeah, I know. Although in fairness, I usually look at "A is strictly better than B" as "There is no reason to use B in a deck over A". That excludes things like the Mindslaver situations automatically, and there do exist situations where Deepwood Ghoul would be a better card to use in a specific slot than lotus (example: deck combos off the Ghoul, rendering the lotus much less useful than it). Strictly better, to me, means card B can literally never be included in a deck without card A being a better option (barring bizarre metagame situations like using Shatter to dodge Mental Misstep).
I consider this to be functionally worse than Goblin War Paint: In your "average" deck, and by regular metrics, it is worse. In some (admittedly rare) cases, however, you might have a deck where this is a superior option (any mono-red deck with the Cinder, for instance, should run this instead)
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Shock vs. Lightning Bolt
If you mention mindslaver or an equally convoluted situation you're wrong because shut up.
Maybe your quest is neverending because it's totally useless and you're totally wrong...?
You seem to be missing the point of "strictly better". In a vacuum, no choices other than this card and Goblin War Paint, Goblin War Paint is more splashable and grants haste, making it strictly better. If you have to add a second card to make something better, that makes it the inferior option.
By that logic you could say that Deepwood Ghoul is better than Black Lotus because combined with Donate and Mindslaver you win instantly. Every card can be a winner with the right support - the good ones are the ones that don't need it.
So continues my neverending quest to prove that nothing is actually strictly better than anything! (okay not really)
@everyone: Yeah, yeah, I know. Although in fairness, I usually look at "A is strictly better than B" as "There is no reason to use B in a deck over A". That excludes things like the Mindslaver situations automatically, and there do exist situations where Deepwood Ghoul would be a better card to use in a specific slot than lotus (example: deck combos off the Ghoul, rendering the lotus much less useful than it). Strictly better, to me, means card B can literally never be included in a deck without card A being a better option (barring bizarre metagame situations like using Shatter to dodge Mental Misstep).
I consider this to be functionally worse than Goblin War Paint: In your "average" deck, and by regular metrics, it is worse. In some (admittedly rare) cases, however, you might have a deck where this is a superior option (any mono-red deck with the Cinder, for instance, should run this instead)