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Arctic Merfolk

Multiverse ID: 26360

Arctic Merfolk

Comments (10)

ultratog1028
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0) (4 votes)
i wish this was snow. i mean arctic! you can't get much more snow then arctic!
Mode
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0) (4 votes)
it's mainly just an overcosted 1/1 or an overcosted 2/2.
sure, you can make use of the bounce and trigger cip/etb effects a second time. but there are better cards to do so.
this card would be pretty awesome with flash. but then again, saving one of your creatures and getting a 2/2 for 1Blue (at instant speed) is kind of lacking the major drawback, given that blue does normally not get any useful "bears" for that cost.
A3Kitsune
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0) (5 votes)
Nice for re-using 'comes into play' effects.
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (3 votes)
There are so many ways one could have improved this card, keep the same drawback, and let it still have been common. Flying is perhaps the most obvious.
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (4 votes)
What's tougher than regular kick-ass, warm-water merfolk? Arctic Merfolk, of course! Born and raised in the bitter cold of the polar ice caps, Arctic Merfolk aren't just ordinary 1/1s for two mana, they're "Arctic" 1/1s for two mana. And if that wasn't enough, if you pay the steep kicker cost they get +1/+1, making them effectively 2/2s - and they still count as merfolk! I can see these bruisers swimming to victory in games the world over.
switchblade44
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
bang bang bang BANG BANG BANG BANG
whalesonstilts
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
2 Merrow Reejerey 1 Stonybrook Banneret and 2 of these guys? tap all of your oponents permanents then make infinite mana? (also i heard infinite taps/untaps was good for merfolk)
velkaarn
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@Kryptnyt:

I'd say islandwalk would've been more obvious than flying though either really would've been fine. It feels a bit overcosted as it is but the kicker is combolicious and Planeshift plenty of enters the battlefield-stuff in it.

@ultratog1028:

I kind of wish it'd be snow too, would really fit the arctic. Had they somehow revisited this in Time Spiral block it'd probably been snow creature.
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Bluemane Lion?

While lacking Flash, this card has a very significant advantage over Whitemane Lion: It bounces your creature as a cost, preventing it from being killed in response. Now if only there was some way to get both effects at once...