Deadly Recluse was awesome. This is not. Wall of Blossoms or Vine Trellis would have been vastly superior to this garbage. I guess they think green needs to be weighed down by anti-flying for limited.
dudecow
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
This is strictly better than Wall of Wood, but that's not saying much at all.
okay, so i have a deck which sits behind these, walls of tanglecord and overgrown battlement while using that ramp plus at best an upwelling or omnath until i can fireball or the like for 20. this thing has served me well. After all, for me, one drops are for stalling, not winning :P
Imperialstonedragon
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
should somehow become stronger from its falvour
Moleland
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
You guys are under valuing this card!
I was playing a THG game on DOTP 2 with this, and someone rightly saw the power of this card. He ignored my ally's 18/18 Heedless one and 2 Titania's chosen (20/20 and 18/18). He even ignored my Giant Spider and Eyeblighted my Wall of vines!
I was gutted and upset! What a waste of my 1 mana?
(This event actually happened)
HeartbreakerStudios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yeah, definitely underrated.
A 0/2 for G would be fair. A 0/3 for G would be better than fair. A 0/3 with Reach for G would be great. And Defender on a zero power creature is practical negligible.
Really, compared to the alternative cheap plant blockers, it definitely has it's place.
When a deck is already ramped up with better, more specialized mana accelerators like Birds of Paradise or Bloom Tender, spending 1G on a Vine Trellis seems a waste of mana. In the thick of it, a 1-drop Reach blocker can easily save you the game from your opponent's super-buffed flyer. Plus, if your deck makes use of sacrifices, G is much more manageable and repeatable cost than 1G.
If you're running a Defender deck, use Overgrown Battlement. If you're running an older deck that needs draw power, use Wall of Blossoms. Otherwise, if you want a disposable blocker with Reach, use Wall of Vines, or perhaps better, Traproot Kami, if you trust you'll have at least more than 3 Forests out most of the game.
I prefer Tinder Wall instead of this, but with reach? not bad for a defensive one drop. Definitely helps fill in the weaknesses in green VS. Fliers. still, don't rely on it too much.
Off the top of my head I can think of maybe 6 spiders that do a better job than this mass of twigs. If anything this card seems more like a sideboard in case of encountering a player trying to drown you in bird tokens.
HuntingDrake
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's just so CUTE! This is what Wall of Wood should have been all along.
The_Erudite_Idiot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The people choose Taproot Kami. I personally am a big fan of Wall of Vines. It gives Wall of Wood a little extra something.
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Leyline of Vitality
1st Wall of Vines
2nd Overgrown Battlement
3rd Battle Rampart +
4th Up to
Still, it's a 2/5 wall.
I was playing a THG game on DOTP 2 with this, and someone rightly saw the power of this card. He ignored my ally's 18/18 Heedless one and 2 Titania's chosen (20/20 and 18/18). He even ignored my Giant Spider and Eyeblighted my Wall of vines!
I was gutted and upset! What a waste of my 1 mana?
(This event actually happened)
A 0/2 for G would be fair. A 0/3 for G would be better than fair. A 0/3 with Reach for G would be great. And Defender on a zero power creature is practical negligible.
Really, compared to the alternative cheap plant blockers, it definitely has it's place.
When a deck is already ramped up with better, more specialized mana accelerators like Birds of Paradise or Bloom Tender, spending 1G on a Vine Trellis seems a waste of mana. In the thick of it, a 1-drop Reach blocker can easily save you the game from your opponent's super-buffed flyer. Plus, if your deck makes use of sacrifices, G is much more manageable and repeatable cost than 1G.
If you're running a Defender deck, use Overgrown Battlement.
If you're running an older deck that needs draw power, use Wall of Blossoms.
Otherwise, if you want a disposable blocker with Reach, use Wall of Vines, or perhaps better, Traproot Kami, if you trust you'll have at least more than 3 Forests out most of the game.
This is what Wall of Wood should have been all along.