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Gempalm Strider

Multiverse ID: 158117

Gempalm Strider

Comments (6)

GradiustheFox
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (11 votes)
He just wants a hug.
Vedalken_Arbiter
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0) (9 votes)
He just wants to grant trample.
Ichorix
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (10 votes)
Unfortunately, he gets neither.
jsttu
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0) (2 votes)
@Nagoragama: i disagree, as the black one can be used quite well as a kill condition in a zombie deck. It goes straight to the opponent and hopefully will severely damage them with your zombie horde.
Nagoragama
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (4 votes)
Definitely not the worst of the Gempalm creatures, unique in that he's actually playable as a creature. Not great, but playable, which cannot be said about any of the other Gempalm creatures.

@jsttu No, I'm saying that none of the other Gempalm creatures are playable as a creature, except this one, which is a Grizzly Bears with a useful type. All the others are overcosted vanilla creatures. The cycle effects range from good (in the case of Gempalm Polluter) to mediocre at best (Gempalm Sorcerer).
OmegaSerris
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Bear Hug!

I think that instead of a neutered overrun, maybe a mana/ramp ability would have been more unique to the rest of the cycle. "Cycle GreenGreen - Add a Green to your mana pool for each elf" would have been pretty good, yet balanced. Another idea would be for each player to find X lands, X being the elf count. Sort of like New Frontiers. I'll admit I'm a bit iffy on that one though.