Great creature. By itself, it's a solid 3/4 on second turn. It's easy to just bounce and immediately replay something like Llanowar Elves or Birds of Paradise. Although, with the Birds, Woolly Thoctar is a better option.
This card becomes excellent with Pandemonium, and adding Aluren to the mix causes instant win.
In addition to all these awesome ideas, don't forget that you can use it to bounce an undead Strangleroot Geist back in to your hand. I want to put this guy in my RGW deck to give Cliffrunner Behemoth a good red permanent to get that haste.
I run this guy in my beast tribal deck. He can bounce a Furnace Scamp to I can play it again to trigger Wirewood Savage and Aether Charge, and it's also a 3/4 so it triggers Garruk's Packleader. It can also, as others have mentioned, reset Blastroderm or Flametounge Kavu (which I haven't put in yet, and won't until I have more packleaders so that it's got more synergy.) I think this guy (and the invasion block in general) is a big part of why I'm a GR player at heart.
Shendran
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One of the best creatures in the game, if you go by pure stats. People are saying a 3/4 for 3 could get there in legacy, this is a 3/4 for 2!!! mana, with upsides!
even nowadays when Kalonian tusker is viewed as pushing it, just keep in mind, this thing still does it, and as mentioned above, it is easy to find something to bounce is green and later in the game it just becomes silly once you factor in cascade.
Also, how long does it take for a tharmogoyf to reach the same size? Heck, why not just play both of them?
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This card becomes excellent with Pandemonium, and adding Aluren to the mix causes instant win.
1st turn: Forest, Llanowar Elf
2nd turn: Mountain, tap Elf for mana, cast Horned Kavu & cast Elf again.
From there you can still cast a 3rd turn Bloodbraid Elf.
You might even consider running Violent Outburst in such a deck to get more Kavus or maybe Colossal might.
I think this guy (and the invasion block in general) is a big part of why I'm a GR player at heart.
even nowadays when Kalonian tusker is viewed as pushing it, just keep in mind, this thing still does it, and as mentioned above, it is easy to find something to bounce is green and later in the game it just becomes silly once you factor in cascade.
Also, how long does it take for a tharmogoyf to reach the same size? Heck, why not just play both of them?