Great flavor text; they should give it first strike though; a metal cheetah thingy running fast? It'll probably crash into you before you can react to it.
I bet this was one of the cards that were meant to stop Jace. Well, I guess the Squadron Hawk has a different opinion...
WateryMind
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(7 votes)
So much fun with Rage Extractor.
helps that its got a nice body on it as well.
StephenF
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Just to verify, even if I use 2-life instead of the color-mana to cast this, it is a RED creature and a RED spell. Correct?
Polychromatic
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
The composition and color scheme of the art combines very well with the colored artifact frame.
Beautiful art, great flavor... If only it had first strike.
EpitomeOfEvilness
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
This is an absalute house in limited. 4 mana and 2 life for 4 dmg to opponent? On turn 4 the opponent won't have anything with toughness greater than 4.
ninjaboy05
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Powerful in limited. Constructed... not as much. @ MOE: I'm glad that you've swapped away from the caps. And I do agree the flavor and art are quite nice.
SpencerDub
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@StephenF - "Just to verify, even if I use 2-life instead of the color-mana to cast this, it is a RED creature and a RED spell. Correct?"
Correct.
The cycle of so-called "monocolor hybrid" cards in Shadowmoor-- Spectral Procession, Advice from the Fae, Beseech the Queen, Flame Javelin, and Tower Above were somewhat similar to cards with Phyrexian mana, in that you could cast these supposedly-colored cards without spending any of the "right" color of mana. If you check the rulings on those cards, however, you'll see that regardless of what color mana was spent to cast them, their color did not change.
If you check out the New Phyrexia FAQ, you'll see an answer to this question in the section on Phyrexian mana:
"A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid. For example, the Thundering Tanadon above is green, even if a player spent and paid 4 life to cast it."
Finally, from the Comprehensive Rules:
"202.2. An object is the color or colors of the mana symbols in its mana cost, regardless of the color of its frame."
Color is defined by the color(s) of mana symbols in a mana cost, not how the mana cost is paid.
blindthrall
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Am I the only one that finds this thing really overcosted?
DeathDark
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
No, the card doesn't cost too much. If your opponent has no blockers and nothing to say about it, that's 9 damage to the face in combo with Rage Extractor. I swear, that card makes speed-burn easy.
tazman321
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(8 votes)
Slash Panther and Rage Extractor: Makin' haters shut up since 2011.
Zoltantf
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(3 votes)
It should have been named Sex Panther. The flavor text should be "60% of the time, it works every time."
PhyrexianFryCook
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I think red needs more first-strike. It would make so much sense on this thing.
Dr.Pingas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Nice to see that in a set laden with disgustingly high-powered and competatively minded cards, red cats STILL cost more mana then their worth.
I mean, I guess it's okay with Rage Extractor, but in the grand scheme of things, almost every comment that wants to give it any props at all call for not only an Extractor in play, but some strange blessing of luck that your opponent won't have so much as a 2/1 chump-blocker, by turn 4.
I'd say this card is already headed towards the piles of Chartooth Cougars, Pardic Firecats, and Crazed Firecats.
Atali
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Compare to Lightning Elemental, it's easy to say that this is better, but much harder to define exactly why, and in fact it falls almost exactly betweed Lightning Elemental and Arc Runner in terms of power. Good design.
Henrietta
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I happen to like this card a lot. Besides being a decent colourless card in limited, it goes great in my Rage Extractor casual deck. It's obviously not competitive worthy, but not everyone plays competitive all the time. It works amazingly well with Rage Extractor, but even without Rage Extractor it's good enough for casual play.
Either way, this is fast in limited indeed. I put him in my Esper deck as surprise , Esper don't have many creatures with haste soo this fits nicely. By the time I can cast the bad cat there is usualy a Sculptor for discount and Master of Etherium/Steel Overseer to give him a boost.
pzfreez7
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
He's tearing it up in legacy and vintage MUD... jus' sayin.
armogohma
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(29 votes)
Note that this is the cheapest creature in the game that can be played entirely with colorless mana that can OHKO Jace, the Mind Sculptor the turn it enters the battlefield. Why is this significant?
Someone won a tournament With four of these in vintage.
The flavor on this card really ticks off the Mirran in me. :p
stille_nacht
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
he sees play in vintage thats for sure.
as a instajace killer, he is a lot more scary when you play him t1 via mishra's workshop/ mox anything
Luke_BPC
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(8 votes)
In Vintage, this is one of the best creatures you can have in your opening hand. With Mishra's Workshop and a Mox you can regularly bring it out on t1 for 4 damage right away, keeping other threats from hitting the battlefield while you prepare the rest of your deck to come out. In any other format, it won't shine as much, but it found it's niche.
YawgmothsWish
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(12 votes)
Any card that sees regular tournament play in the most powerful and degenerate format, should NEVER be rated any less than 4/5 stars.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(5 votes)
Underwhelming? Yes.
Surprisingly effective? Also yes.
Would've preferred maybe and 3/2, but I'll take what I can get, I suppose. Also, anyone know how to make Phyrexian mana symbols?
Fireballmage
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(11 votes)
Slash Panther proves that if you train really hard and believe in yourself, you too can become a Vintage mainboard card. We need more heroes like him in this world today.
Has anyone pointed out yet that this is a Pink Panther that's about to exit stage right?
DarthParallax
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
He kills Jace, the Mind Sculptor ergo he's Vintage Staple, and I'd argue Legacy Playable. He might not be strictly 'good' persay, but 'useable' is fair if you really want to decide that this is how you will spend Sideboard slots killing Jaces. (as opposed to Dreadbore). I also think there are few Standards that this creature would actually be bad in--
Simply note which Walkers are performing well.
In Scars Block, there was Elspeth 2, Koth, Venser, Karn, and Tezzeret.
The only Planeswalker it makes sense to use him against is Tezzeret, because the others either aren't threatening enough to demand such a single minded good-for-this-job-but-for-nothing-else answer, or they are Karn who is good against permanents.
Tezzeret wasn't the deck to beat- CawBlade was. If Jace, TMS had not gotten banned, you would have seen Slash Panther played everywhere Jace was, I think.
Slash Panther would be good in today's Standard. Sideboard, not main, but still good. Some Planeswalkers you just want to KILL on SIGHT.
Liliana of the Veil I think is by no means as good as Jace, but I still plan to mine up as soon as she drops off from Standard spikes because she's the next best thing. She's 'poor man's Jace TMS' as one of the Most Powerful planeswalkers printed and the most powerful not-Jace one with a reasonable non EDH mana cost. (OK, Karn gets played outside of EDH, but that's because Karn was invented by Urza, who is a dick and keeps inventing dick things like Karn. XD) All of the Innistrad Planeswalkers are getting some medium play, and they are all killable by SP.
SuperFriends.dec hasn't existed for a while, but if you introduce Slash Panther into a format where SuperFriends is doing really well, he does a good job against it.
It is simply the case that the only place we see all the stars aligning for Slash Panther is Vintage, but we have seen those same stars in other places that did not have access to Slash Panther. If he can beat Jace, the Mind Sculptor, he can beat Ajani Vengeant and Elspeth, Knight-Errant. I'd get a foil playset just because heck, who knows when SuperFriends might become a Modern Deck again or not?
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(but he already has it!)
helps that its got a nice body on it as well.
Beautiful art, great flavor... If only it had first strike.
Correct.
The cycle of so-called "monocolor hybrid" cards in Shadowmoor--
If you check out the New Phyrexia FAQ, you'll see an answer to this question in the section on Phyrexian mana:
"A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid. For example, the Thundering Tanadon above is green, even if a player spent
Finally, from the Comprehensive Rules:
"202.2. An object is the color or colors of the mana symbols in its mana cost, regardless of the color of
its frame."
Color is defined by the color(s) of mana symbols in a mana cost, not how the mana cost is paid.
Makin' haters shut up since 2011.
I mean, I guess it's okay with Rage Extractor, but in the grand scheme of things, almost every comment that wants to give it any props at all call for not only an Extractor in play, but some strange blessing of luck that your opponent won't have so much as a 2/1 chump-blocker, by turn 4.
I'd say this card is already headed towards the piles of Chartooth Cougars, Pardic Firecats, and Crazed Firecats.
Either way, this is fast in limited indeed.
I put him in my Esper deck as surprise , Esper don't have many creatures with haste soo this fits nicely. By the time I can cast the bad cat there is usualy a Sculptor for discount and Master of Etherium/Steel Overseer to give him a boost.
Someone won a tournament
With four of these
in vintage.
Yet never sees Standard contructed play.
Slash Panther
Tangle Angler
Penumbra Bobcat
Assault Griffin
Razorfield Rhino
Siege Mastodon
Rot Wolf
New Phyrexia is flavorful.
as a instajace killer, he is a lot more scary when you play him t1 via mishra's workshop/ mox anything
Surprisingly effective? Also yes.
Would've preferred maybe
Also, anyone know how to make Phyrexian mana symbols?
Standard: Unplayable.
Extended: Unplayable.
Modern: Unpayable.
Legacy: Unplayable.
Commander: Unplayable.
Vintage: Staple.
Makes sense to me!
Simply note which Walkers are performing well.
In Scars Block, there was Elspeth 2, Koth, Venser, Karn, and Tezzeret.
The only Planeswalker it makes sense to use him against is Tezzeret, because the others either aren't threatening enough to demand such a single minded good-for-this-job-but-for-nothing-else answer, or they are Karn who is good against permanents.
Tezzeret wasn't the deck to beat- CawBlade was. If Jace, TMS had not gotten banned, you would have seen Slash Panther played everywhere Jace was, I think.
Slash Panther would be good in today's Standard. Sideboard, not main, but still good. Some Planeswalkers you just want to KILL on SIGHT.
Liliana of the Veil I think is by no means as good as Jace, but I still plan to mine up as soon as she drops off from Standard spikes because she's the next best thing. She's 'poor man's Jace TMS' as one of the Most Powerful planeswalkers printed and the most powerful not-Jace one with a reasonable non EDH mana cost. (OK, Karn gets played outside of EDH, but that's because Karn was invented by Urza, who is a dick and keeps inventing dick things like Karn. XD)
All of the Innistrad Planeswalkers are getting some medium play, and they are all killable by SP.
SuperFriends.dec hasn't existed for a while, but if you introduce Slash Panther into a format where SuperFriends is doing really well, he does a good job against it.
It is simply the case that the only place we see all the stars aligning for Slash Panther is Vintage, but we have seen those same stars in other places that did not have access to Slash Panther. If he can beat Jace, the Mind Sculptor, he can beat Ajani Vengeant and Elspeth, Knight-Errant. I'd get a foil playset just because heck, who knows when SuperFriends might become a Modern Deck again or not?
Sorcery
Destroy target Jace, the Mind Sculptor.
At least, that's basically how it reads in Vintage. Except better.