If there are more than four tide counters on it, it's just a 2/2 creature with a bunch of useless counters.
Auteur
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Flavorful, but bizarre and mediocre at best. No one wants to catch this thing as a 1/1.
GradiustheFox
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This card brings forth my love of wacky Counters, and boy, Tide Counters have to be the wackiest yet. 3 for a 2/2 that spends half its time even worse and the other half of its time mediocre just isn't worth bothering with, though I'm sure there's some crazy counter-management combo that could be used to keep it at its best. Best thing to do is summon it hoping your opponent gets confused by the constant counter flipping and changing effects.
PEVE_O
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(5 votes)
da-da chum da-da-chee
longwinded
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Bouchart, the phrase "if there are four counters on" is ambiguous. It can mean "if there are exactly four counters on" it, or it can mean that it is true that there are four separate counters on it. If there are five or six tide counters on it (say, due to Doubling Season), then there are still at least four separate tide counters on the card, and all are removed. Which why cards are good to say "exactly" when they mean exactly.
Crag-Hack
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
The Legendary.
Rudyardo
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Ebb Tide Homarid 2U Creature - Homarid At the beginning of your upkeep, if Ebb Tide Homarid has less than two -1/-1 counters on it, put a -1/-1 counter on Ebb Tide Homarid. Otherwise, remove all -1/-1 counters from it. 3/3
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A whole lot of work for what is basically a blue Gray Ogre most of the time. Ugh.
Laguz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
These pieces of crap wiped out the merfolk? The merfolk on this plane must have been weak. Really, really weak. No, weaker than that. Even weaker. Keep going. More. No, more. Look, we're talking chimney imps and wood elementals for superiors. They were weak!
SkaerKrow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Back in the day, managing all of the counters on this card made players really crabby.
Psychrates
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the most egregious atrocities of Fallen Empires. Pointless, Long-winded mechanically and confusing inebriated.
bay_falconer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
To be fair, the Dominarian merfolk are usually ridiculously good. (For a long time, in Legacy, if you played tribal, you played only merfolk, and used Lord of Atlantis+Phantasmal Terrain. Blue's even best at what it's worst at.)
All I wanna know is, what happens iwth this guy when Doubling Season gives him five counters?
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hey, really cool mechanic! Too bad its stapled onto some limited fodder.
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Creature - Homarid
At the beginning of your upkeep, if Ebb Tide Homarid has less than two -1/-1 counters on it, put a -1/-1 counter on Ebb Tide Homarid. Otherwise, remove all -1/-1 counters from it.
3/3
All I wanna know is, what happens iwth this guy when Doubling Season gives him five counters?
Put out Phyrexian Obliterator!
COOOOMMBBOOOOOO
(come on, it sucks.)