Pointed Discussion

"COME AT ME BRO!"

3/2 is pretty big for a guy who's getting beaten up like that. He can trade with Beacon Behemoth, but he can't handle a few villagers with rocks?

Great with Silence

Silence counts as a spell, so therefore it (and Orim's Chant) doesn't help Werewolves so much. Kind of a downer, but they probably did it that way on purpose. I don't think that any of the transformation triggers actually fit the whole day/night flavor WOTC was going for, Werewolves in particular. Maybe something more similar to Morph would have made more sense? Like Screeching Bat, although that card is a bit weird anyway, it's a bat that became a vampire... sort of backwards, lol

The man is a WARRIOR and he can kill an avarage bear; what's so tormented about him? I assume each of those townsfolk are 1/1's at best, but still man

I'm seeing a theme in innistrad, particularly with transform cards, where the flavour doesn't fit the p/t at all.

I mean how is a tormented pariah getting beaten up by villagers a 3/2? 3/2 is bigger than most elite knights. And how is the guy in the art a WARRIOR? Just because he's a red human doesn't mean he should be a warrior.

Also, consider the flavour text. At first it's just an obvious setup. But the second time you look at it,.. what sense does it make? I mean they are in a world where werewolves explode out of EXACTLY this sort of guy every full moon. What kind of idiot is going to say 'oh look a full moon, awesome, now we can see this suspicious outsider type that we're persecuting guy more clearly'. I mean who would even want to be outside during a full moon let alone doing something that suicidal?

look, maybe he just has low self-esteem, okay?

Yeah, no idea how this guy isn't a 0/1 that turns into a 3/3 or something. A 3/2 is big enough to splatter most non-monsters on Innistrad, and then he flips into a Craw Wurm level werewolf... well, as another poster said, maybe he just has self-esteem issues. Or, maybe the other townsfolk hate successful characters: maybe they are all just 1/1's who hate this guy because he worked really hard to become a 3/2, so now he's an outcast because of his success... or something.

Guys, seriously. If something were to attack the people in the card, I'm sure they would band together and fight whatever was attacking them, not to forget that the one being "tormented" *is* a Werewolf, with the moon rising. So maybe his power is ramping up for the transformation? 3/2 is good and flavorful. 5/5 for amazing artwork and flavor alone.

Man, if THIS guy gets beaten up on Innistrad, Jace must get wedgies every two seconds.

I'm kinda worried that a man capable of battering a Hill Giant on his own is considered a good target to pick on in Innistrad.

Also, reckon it's worth experimenting with in Warrior decks?

Flavor aside, this is seriously some of the worst card art I've seen in the past several blocks.
Every time I opened an Innistrad booster, I prayed that I would not see this at the end. Not only is it one of the worst of all the transformers, it is undoubtedly the ugliest.
I don't blame Bud Cook. I blame the design team, or whoever is responsible for making this clearly-last-minute card, needing a new art commission at the eleventh hour.
... at least I hope that's what happened.
0.5/5

Perhaps this man was a soldier, paladin, or hero but when times got really bad, he chickened out. The town still won, but they now scorn at him for abandoning his duties. As a result, he still has power like a soldier (1/1 or 2/2), but because he got a werewolf wound, he now is slowly powering up (like someone else said). Anyway, the tormentors got what they deserved.