Yeah, but... is Falconer his last name? Or is he a Falconer with no discernable affinity for birds? Only Richard Garfield knows for sure.
Pigfish99
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Like GrimGorgonBC said, he isn't that bad. the CMC is slightly higher than you expect, but the mana ability is better than you might expect. Sure, that mana is colorless, but most of your big spells probably require about 4 or 5 colorless mana.
Plus, this is from the legends set, in which you have some of the most overcosted cards of all time. This being lightly higher CMC isn't all that bad when you look at it that way.
3/5 in legends, 2.8/5 otherwise.
DarthParallax
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
He Sol Rings. That's good enough for anybody. :)
Paolino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In a 100% flavor set like Legends it's not surprising that a fatty has an ability which prevents it from attacking (check also Riven Turnbull)... However, five mana for a 4/4 was the standard, and so this card is a bad-but-not-too-much-at-the-time one, to me. And men, this guy's name is amazing, something like "The Astian Sun"! The Astian period (now named Gelasian) is the last part of the Pleistocene; it spans between about 2.5 and about 1.8 million years ago. This guy trained falcons 2 million years ago... he deserves respect!
Ideatog
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
FALCONer PUNCH!
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Is... kind of ok-ish for his time. 4/4 for 5 CMC that can produce 2 mana, not as terrible as some of the other legends.
ParallaxtheRevan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love looking back at the sets from Arabian Nights -to- Fallen Empires to look for new inspiration to give old cards a second day in the sun. I don't even own all of them yet, and as a collector I know I eventually *will*, but as a player I also want to know which cards I should be promoting to be given their fair due. :)
I did some math, and out of 55 Legends in Legends, a meager 12 of them have P/T *equal* to their casting cost (and none greater....I think?). The Elder Dragon Legends cannot boast as much among any of them! But, then, they have the truly good FLYING ability. Flying and TRAMPLE can each be considered worth a full {1} in, even many sets today, but particularly Legends. If you were to say that a card *has* to have 'either Flying/orTrample, or CMC = P', then you would consider less than 1/8-1/7 of the Legends Legends to be even playable, let alone good enough to build decks around.
Palino: either Unlimited or 4th Edition was the Core Set. Players had at least Grizzly Bears, Serra Angels, Blue didn't want creatures, Lord of the Pit, and ...alright, the Goblin deck really wasn't off the ground yet. Ali from Cairo? Was that their best? :( Still..there was enough to know that P/T should close to match CMC. Although T was probably valued exactly as much as P, unlike today.
This card fails this test. He is in the Large group of Legends Legends whose Power or Toughness is exactly 1 less than their CMC. They essentially charged exactly {1} for being gold. But, not only does this card have a Borderline POWER NINE effect, it is a mana-ability moreover so you might consider it to be compensation. (I do not suggest applying this logic to the {U}/{B} legends that tap for {U} and {B}, but after all, Sol Ring is better than Basic Island and Basic Swamp.)
Therefore I suggest that between this card and vanilla Legend creatures like Jedit Ojanen and Svitri Scarzum, you should pass dread judgment on LEGENDS the set with careful consideration: Is being Legedary, being Multicolored, having honestly epic names, flavor texts, and artwork, and being more noticeable in an entire format built for you, worth an actual full {1} mana to you? If so, then add roughly 1.35 stars to your Spike-based evaluations. If not, then you will be left with a scant handful of cards, with a few exceptions to your rule, totalling probably less than 15 out of 55 Legends being cards you'd willingly run. In particular you will have to be impressed by the abilities (on such as Nebuchadnezzar or Nicol Bolas) which disqualifies all of the Vanilla Legends I believe.
Either 2/5 or 4/5. Need a copy and a group to playtest him. =P
Unfortunately, I must also add that this one of the few cards in Legends where the P/T is close to desirable *and* the ability is desirable....but it's a TAP ability...which means...spending about a card to let you both attack/orblock and still get that mana, other wise he's a 5-cost mana rock that....I apologize: Dies to Doom Blade. Dying to Doom Blade is not a good test for most Legends Legends, but most of the other ones really are trying to be fighters, and this one threatens to be a Mana Rock only. If he only had Vigilance!
Frankly, my best Advice for any Legends EDH deck is: Akroma's Memorial is more first-pickable than Sol Ring. I shit you not. :P It gives your Commander everything it's lacking and completely changes the conversation-- mostly, FlyingorTrample and Vigilance are the two best words on the artifact, because while the others make good creatures better, these can make 'bad' creatures suddenly good.
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Plus, this is from the legends set, in which you have some of the most overcosted cards of all time. This being lightly higher CMC isn't all that bad when you look at it that way.
3/5 in legends, 2.8/5 otherwise.
And men, this guy's name is amazing, something like "The Astian Sun"! The Astian period (now named Gelasian) is the last part of the Pleistocene; it spans between about 2.5 and about 1.8 million years ago. This guy trained falcons 2 million years ago... he deserves respect!
I did some math, and out of 55 Legends in Legends, a meager 12 of them have P/T *equal* to their casting cost (and none greater....I think?). The Elder Dragon Legends cannot boast as much among any of them! But, then, they have the truly good FLYING ability. Flying and TRAMPLE can each be considered worth a full {1} in, even many sets today, but particularly Legends. If you were to say that a card *has* to have 'either Flying/orTrample, or CMC = P', then you would consider less than 1/8-1/7 of the Legends Legends to be even playable, let alone good enough to build decks around.
Palino: either Unlimited or 4th Edition was the Core Set. Players had at least Grizzly Bears, Serra Angels, Blue didn't want creatures, Lord of the Pit, and ...alright, the Goblin deck really wasn't off the ground yet. Ali from Cairo? Was that their best? :( Still..there was enough to know that P/T should close to match CMC. Although T was probably valued exactly as much as P, unlike today.
This card fails this test. He is in the Large group of Legends Legends whose Power or Toughness is exactly 1 less than their CMC. They essentially charged exactly {1} for being gold. But, not only does this card have a Borderline POWER NINE effect, it is a mana-ability moreover so you might consider it to be compensation. (I do not suggest applying this logic to the {U}/{B} legends that tap for {U} and {B}, but after all, Sol Ring is better than Basic Island and Basic Swamp.)
Therefore I suggest that between this card and vanilla Legend creatures like Jedit Ojanen and Svitri Scarzum, you should pass dread judgment on LEGENDS the set with careful consideration: Is being Legedary, being Multicolored, having honestly epic names, flavor texts, and artwork, and being more noticeable in an entire format built for you, worth an actual full {1} mana to you? If so, then add roughly 1.35 stars to your Spike-based evaluations. If not, then you will be left with a scant handful of cards, with a few exceptions to your rule, totalling probably less than 15 out of 55 Legends being cards you'd willingly run. In particular you will have to be impressed by the abilities (on such as Nebuchadnezzar or Nicol Bolas) which disqualifies all of the Vanilla Legends I believe.
Either 2/5 or 4/5. Need a copy and a group to playtest him. =P
Unfortunately, I must also add that this one of the few cards in Legends where the P/T is close to desirable *and* the ability is desirable....but it's a TAP ability...which means...spending about a card to let you both attack/orblock and still get that mana, other wise he's a 5-cost mana rock that....I apologize: Dies to Doom Blade. Dying to Doom Blade is not a good test for most Legends Legends, but most of the other ones really are trying to be fighters, and this one threatens to be a Mana Rock only. If he only had Vigilance!
Frankly, my best Advice for any Legends EDH deck is: Akroma's Memorial is more first-pickable than Sol Ring. I shit you not. :P It gives your Commander everything it's lacking and completely changes the conversation-- mostly, FlyingorTrample and Vigilance are the two best words on the artifact, because while the others make good creatures better, these can make 'bad' creatures suddenly good.