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Would rather it only cost G, but it probably takes into account the flip side somewhat.

I wish this was better, transform with mana accel sounds like such a neat idea.

Little red riding hood, who then turns into the big bad wolf. Great.
Probably won't have a place in your werewolf deck, since it already has a 2 drop (Mayor of Avabruck). Unless you plan to use it to get a t3 Huntmaster of the Fells.

I can see this being a decent second turn drop in Werewolves limited if you pull enough.

This could be a really good turn one with Chancellor of the Tangle in your opening 7.

My pauper standard werewolf deck just got way better. =D

So does that mean Little Red Riding Hood tried to eat...herself?....and then got killed by the woodcutter?

This lady may never see constructed play. But she definitely pulls her weight in limited. I played two of her in a blue green stompy deck in the draft we had after the pre release. Worked wonders with Nephalia seakite.

I don't know why she's not rated higher.
I think of her as a Llanowar Elves for werewolves with a built in bigger body for late and middle game for the cost of one.
The flavor is a bit... muddled.
You have the Red Riding hood thing going on in the art alone. The narrative is about a girl who was thrown out of her village and is planning revenge. And the mechanic is generating mana... And then there's that big green scar on the wolf which might has some unspecified connecting with the mana generation...

All of these things are cool, mind you, but have absolutely nothing to do with each-other.

The revenge flavor would have a big toothy werewolf with some nasty attack ability... But this is tied for the smallest werewolf to date and her ability, mana generation, usually indicates a nature helper or something creative, not a vengeance crazed werewolf.
The art is cool and mysterious; Clearly She's gearing up for a change (she's not wearing much under that hood). Sadly, the two most striking elements in the pictures, the scar and the hood, are never explained.

I really like it; she's one of the decent wolves that has an ability before it flips. Kinda wonder why she's not a Shaman, or at least a Druid though.

Hey, Grandma, me and the local Woodsman came all this way to deliver you a basket of goodies!

Wizards designed the horribly evil version of Little Red Riding hood. Everyone is the Wolf.

To explain the concept of this card for anyone confused by it...

The red hood thing is mostly a bit of artistic humor, though it's also to conceal the fact that the figure in the image is otherwise naked. This communicates a level of rejection of civilization. We don't know why exactly she's scorned just yet, but in a superstitious realm like Innistrad, it's fair to say that women who run around half clad in the forest are probably run out of town in short order for fear of witchcraft. For this, she has an axe to grind.

When she flips into her Werewolf form we get the rest of the story. The woman apparently has a huge moon-mark on her back (the other reason that she wears the cloak, perhaps), which identifies her as a Werewolf. Though she isn't individually powerful, the favor of the moon apparently gives her a particular tie to the primeval forces of the forest. The revenge that she's taking against her village isn't going to be accomplished by her own claws, she's going to bring the wrath of the living forest down on the village (hence her ability to ramp up your mana production in order to give you the ability to play bigger creatures/spells more quickly).

Hey there Little Red Riding Hood
You sure are lookin' good
You're everything that a big bad wolf could want.

@Zoah The flavor is there. She's getting revenge by BRINGING the PACK to the village. Not just herself. The mana generation allows for bigger wolves to be played faster, thus bringing the pack as if guiding them.

She scorned the village's public indecency laws. Now she can live as nature intended.

I'd scar her.
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That came out wrong.

"Somebody stole all of my clothes! Please help!"

A really good card especially if you can get her to transform early, I've won numerous games by dropping her turn two and having her transform at the start of turn 3 after an opponent passes. After dropping a land, you suddenly have access to a whopping {5} mana, on turn 3, not to mention if they don't have any blockers she can still get in for two damage a turn...and still tap for {G}{G} afterwards! Not game-breaking by any stretch of the imagination but a balanced card that exhibits the mechanic of the block (in this case, the transform mechanic)

You know what they say about a woman scorned... ;-)

This card is really funny if you ever watched Once Upon a Time

I love the artwork and flavor of this card. The dominant wild green, the shaded, off centered civilization in the corner, a distant past, contrasted by the dull sun that must now set; the moonlight rises, brighter than the sun, now pouring down on the last remnants of a civilized being, the hood, now on the ground. And now the beauty is the beast, in exile, staring ambiguously off the card, perhaps back to an existence she once knew. Perfect that she wasn't specifically named on either side; this was perhaps an all too common occurrence at the time of the Dark Ascension. I don't think the flavor text is even needed, the card name and artwork do a great enough job depicting the scene.

You people are thinking too deeply about the whole naked thing. What do you think happens to the clothes when a werewolf transforms?