An interesting card. Good synergy with Leviathan when you run out of ways to use it.
AmericanVigor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
While not the best card around, this has a lot of potential with Coat of Arms.
kitsunewarlock
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Ignoring colored mana requirements (since I'm not actually building this deck; assume some filter if you must) and using Homarid Spawning Bed, Scornful Egotist (as my general, assuming he was legendary) and Ashnod's Altar...with a face up Egotist on my turn...
Mana Floating (after actions taken): Actions Taken
-3 Mana Floating: Sac Egotist; get 8 Homarids. 13 Mana: Sacrifice your Homarids. 4 Mana: To get Egotist Again. Sac for 8 Homarids. 20 Mana: Via Sacrificing the Homarids 9 Mana: To replay egotist and sacrifice. 25 Mana: Via Sacrificing the Homarids. 12 Mana: To replay Egotist and sacrifice. 28 Mana: Via sacrificing the Homarids. 13 Mana: To replay Egotist and sacrifice. 29 Mana: Via sacrificing the Homarids. 12 Mana: To replay Egotist and sacirfice. 28 mana: Via Sacrificing the Homarids. 9 Mana: To replay Egotist and Sacrifice. 25 mana: Via sacrificing the Homarids 4 Mana: To get Egotist Again and sacrifice. 20 Mana: Via sacrificing the Homarids. -3 Mana: To get Egotist again and sacirifice. 13 Mana: After sacrificing the Homarids.
That's pretty neat. See the pattern(s)?
Opined_Fluke
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Not as terrible as you'd expect for something pertaining to homarids.
Radagast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I just like the fact it creates something other than Homarids, despite the name. Are Camarids the juvinal name for Homarids? That would be like sacrificing a "tiger" card to put "kitties" into play... talk about flavor winning over sanity, but whatever. At least this thing was a good way to eat all those awful, huge blue creatures that existed back then: Sea Serpent, Island Fish, Elder Spawn, Leviathan, etc.
Psychrates
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Steal your creature, turn it blue, Sac it, get tokens. 5 outta freakin' 5.
Salient
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I built a deck around this and Mass Polymorph when 2011 came out.
Basically the deck gets Avatar of Will, Errant Ephemeron or Maelstrom Djinn out, sacs it for a pile of tokens, then Mass Polymorphs the tokens into crazy stuff like Progenitus, Stormtide Leviathan, or... whatever you want, really. For a while I just polymorphed into and Elder Spawns, just for the lulz / thematic cohesion. It is a Spawning Bed, after all.
Actually pretty nice card out of fallen empires. And it reminds me of crab people from south park. Any kind of +1/+1, maybe glorious anthem, becomes really nice with this. Coat of Arms becomes extremely deadly. A nice way to go is to keep 3 mana open and respond to single target removal with this ability.
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Mana Floating (after actions taken): Actions Taken
-3 Mana Floating: Sac Egotist; get 8 Homarids.
13 Mana: Sacrifice your Homarids.
4 Mana: To get Egotist Again. Sac for 8 Homarids.
20 Mana: Via Sacrificing the Homarids
9 Mana: To replay egotist and sacrifice.
25 Mana: Via Sacrificing the Homarids.
12 Mana: To replay Egotist and sacrifice.
28 Mana: Via sacrificing the Homarids.
13 Mana: To replay Egotist and sacrifice.
29 Mana: Via sacrificing the Homarids.
12 Mana: To replay Egotist and sacirfice.
28 mana: Via Sacrificing the Homarids.
9 Mana: To replay Egotist and Sacrifice.
25 mana: Via sacrificing the Homarids
4 Mana: To get Egotist Again and sacrifice.
20 Mana: Via sacrificing the Homarids.
-3 Mana: To get Egotist again and sacirifice.
13 Mana: After sacrificing the Homarids.
That's pretty neat. See the pattern(s)?
Basically the deck gets Avatar of Will, Errant Ephemeron or Maelstrom Djinn out, sacs it for a pile of tokens, then Mass Polymorphs the tokens into crazy stuff like Progenitus, Stormtide Leviathan, or... whatever you want, really. For a while I just polymorphed into and Elder Spawns, just for the lulz / thematic cohesion. It is a Spawning Bed, after all.
You can speed it up with Show and Tell, and it's even possible to go sort-of-infinite by mass polymorphing into Great Whale, Palinchron, and Snapcaster Mage (to recur Mass Polymorph).
So. Much. Fun.