It's nice seeing Rukh Egg again in another form, but I'm not sure white needed it.
Cooties
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(13 votes)
I want to equip a Warmonger's Chariot to this and have my egg charge into battle.
Sir_Kaeru
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(5 votes)
love the flavor
don_miguel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
a 3/3 flier for 3 is nice, but having the work to make the token and then being unsummoned or something doesn't worth...
VirtueVsVice
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
If nothing else it's decent defense I guess...
Zulp
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Well, white is the second best flying color. It's okay for it to have a few every now and then, but I'll admit that the flavor of an egg hatching into a bird is a bit weird for white. Then again, what color would this go into ideally?
Imaging using something like Minion Reflector or Splinter Twin on this creature. Tap during an opponent's turn to create a chump blocker that generates you a flying 3/3 after blocking or at the end of the turn. I play a casual bird deck that has Soulcatcher's Aerie everywhere, so this will often create at least a 4/4 upon its death, if not higher(I have had two Aeries out at once, one with 5 counters, and another with 3, which would create an flying 11/11 token....not bad). The more bird death, the better for the other 500,000 birds on my side of the field. Although the great effect is not immediate, you basically get a good chump blocker and a strong flier for 3 cmc. Good deal in my book.
Cheza
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(8 votes)
Don't like the flavor much.
An Egg is a creature that can block? So whenever an opponent attacks, I will roll it into the battlefield. And hopeully, it get's destroyed, because I get a Bird token. And the best way is to eat the egg (sacrificing it) to get the bird????
SwordSkill
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Among all other creatures, there were 3 eggs lying down around... Suddenly, a powerfull white explosion caused all creatures to die, and then 3 birds hatched....
JaxsonBateman
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Great little card in limited. Can almost entirely stall the ground, at least in the early game. "Oh, you can attack with your Spined Wurm - I'll 'chump' it with this guy, and next turn, Pacify it. Thanks for the bird token". Flying is, of course, always relevant in limited, so having the potential to get a 3/3 flier is pretty sweet on a card, even if it isn't straightforward.
You can do some quirky things with it though. In perhaps my best (read: luckiest) draft ever, among other cards, I got 2 Blinding Mages, a Royal Assassin, a Sun Titan and a Roc Egg. At one point in one game my opponent's battlefield was clear of creatures to kill, and I had all the aforementioned cards out. So at the end of the opponent's turn I tapped my egg, killed it, and got my bird token, then fished it out with the Sun Titan on the following turn to repeat the process. Of course, I only got to use it once more after that, but it was pretty cute. ^^
@Silvanwolf: while Minion Reflector works, it seems like a a pretty silly combo - you end up spending 7 mana for a free permanent 3/3 flier that can be killed with as little as an Unsummon. Splinter Twin *doesn't* work though, as it exiles the token at end of turn. Of course, if it hits the grave before it's exiled you'll get your token, but your opponent will easily be able to determine this and will attack (or not) accordingly.
NARFNra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Oh THIS is what that weird "Bird" card is for
land_comment
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Why reprint this in white?
What was wrong with Rokh Egg?
Wizards, STOP MESSING WITH THE CLASSICS!!!!!
Diab0l0
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
The Roc Egg looks great for control in white basically because it forces your opponent to remove two creatures for one card.
It works quite well with a World Queller since you can force your opponent to sacrfice a creature and happily sacrfice your egg to get the bird out. :)
This combo just becomes broken if you have an active Emeria, the Sky Ruin in late game.
Magnor_Criol
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@ land_comment - Well, first off, Rukh Egg was weird in that it was an egg that could attack.
Also, red is not the strongest color for flying, aside from its dragons and phoenixes and a couple others. Birds, and flying in general, are typically white and blue's domain, as is defender.
If you just handed me the template for the card and asked me to color it, I'd have given Rukh Egg to white or blue, which is just what they did here.
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Did i possibly miss the extinction of the creature type "Egg" in the past days in Magic? I wonder why this was not made a "Bird Egg".
Aside from that, this is a nice little white Rukh Egg replacement. (The original Rukh Egg notably (still ?) bears the creature type "Egg" and not "Bird") Pity this one has Defender
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An Egg is a creature that can block? So whenever an opponent attacks, I will roll it into the battlefield. And hopeully, it get's destroyed, because I get a Bird token. And the best way is to eat the egg (sacrificing it) to get the bird????
You can do some quirky things with it though. In perhaps my best (read: luckiest) draft ever, among other cards, I got 2 Blinding Mages, a Royal Assassin, a Sun Titan and a Roc Egg. At one point in one game my opponent's battlefield was clear of creatures to kill, and I had all the aforementioned cards out. So at the end of the opponent's turn I tapped my egg, killed it, and got my bird token, then fished it out with the Sun Titan on the following turn to repeat the process. Of course, I only got to use it once more after that, but it was pretty cute. ^^
@Silvanwolf: while Minion Reflector works, it seems like a a pretty silly combo - you end up spending 7 mana for a free permanent 3/3 flier that can be killed with as little as an Unsummon. Splinter Twin *doesn't* work though, as it exiles the token at end of turn. Of course, if it hits the grave before it's exiled you'll get your token, but your opponent will easily be able to determine this and will attack (or not) accordingly.
What was wrong with Rokh Egg?
Wizards, STOP MESSING WITH THE CLASSICS!!!!!
It works quite well with a World Queller since you can force your opponent to sacrfice a creature and happily sacrfice your egg to get the bird out. :)
This combo just becomes broken if you have an active Emeria, the Sky Ruin in late game.
Also, red is not the strongest color for flying, aside from its dragons and phoenixes and a couple others. Birds, and flying in general, are typically white and blue's domain, as is defender.
If you just handed me the template for the card and asked me to color it, I'd have given Rukh Egg to white or blue, which is just what they did here.
I wonder why this was not made a "Bird Egg".
Aside from that, this is a nice little white Rukh Egg replacement.
(The original Rukh Egg notably (still ?) bears the creature type "Egg" and not "Bird")
Pity this one has Defender