Take a Woolly Thoctar, make it legendary, give it a mana ability, increase the casting cost by 3, and voila! Instant Princess Lucrezia!
Okay, let's be fair. Historically, six mana for a 5/4 isn't bad. In the early days of Magic, there weren't a lot of big black and/or blue creatures - and the ones that did exist had annoying upkeeps (Demonic Hordes) or silly restrictions (Sea Serpent). Princess Lucrezia offered blue/black players a large creature with no real drawbacks except her casting cost. And then the Princess offered a little bit more. She could add blue mana to your mana pool. This made her an effective blocker, as well as provide extra mana to power counterspells. For the sake of comparison, take a look at Sivitri Scarzam. Savitri is a vanilla 6/4 for coverted mana cost 7.
Guest57443454
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
One of the many worthless legends in the set, it still boggles my mind why they gave mana abilities to these bigger creatures...otherwise Eppek_the_Goblin has said what needs to be said...
I almost put this in a Necrotic Ooze deck as part of an infinite blue mana combo...
Then I remembered that Silver Myr exists and thought, "man, that was a close one".
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
the funny thing is, I'm not laughing. it adds Blue mana. I know it looks like weaksauce on the surface, but I just plain don't trust blue mana-ramp. too risky to underestimate.
worth sideboarding against, thankfully easy to do so: Swords to Plowshares. Just in case. I'd much rather have it and need it for something else instead, then need it and miss it. Do. Not. Trust. Blue. Ramp.
Radagast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
For her time, she wasn't all that bad. Better than Sivitri Scarzam and other totally worthless legends. I think the real problem is that her mana ability seems so out of place on a creature that costs 6 that most folks just assume she's totally useless. For her time, she could provide some reasonable board presense. Obviously terrible these days, but things have changed.
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oooo-oh Repuuu-nnzel.. MOMMY'S back! lol..
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A six mana creature that makes one mana.
Sense.
Swag_Crow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'd tap that. Perfect ramp for my Esper Aggro-Ramp deck.
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Okay, let's be fair. Historically, six mana for a 5/4 isn't bad. In the early days of Magic, there weren't a lot of big black and/or blue creatures - and the ones that did exist had annoying upkeeps (Demonic Hordes) or silly restrictions (Sea Serpent). Princess Lucrezia offered blue/black players a large creature with no real drawbacks except her casting cost. And then the Princess offered a little bit more. She could add blue mana to your mana pool. This made her an effective blocker, as well as provide extra mana to power counterspells. For the sake of comparison, take a look at Sivitri Scarzam. Savitri is a vanilla 6/4 for coverted mana cost 7.
Then I remembered that Silver Myr exists and thought, "man, that was a close one".
worth sideboarding against, thankfully easy to do so: Swords to Plowshares. Just in case. I'd much rather have it and need it for something else instead, then need it and miss it. Do. Not. Trust. Blue. Ramp.
Sense.
-Swag_Crow