You obviously never played against these in Standard. A 3/3 on turn 3 followed by another 3/3 on turn four can spell a quick doom for the opponent. Not to mention that the deck using it will probably be running elves or birds and get this out a turn faster.
True_Smog
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(9 votes)
I really doesn't understand this card, there is so many better cards nowdays.
John-Bender
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Person1234 is definitely not joking. I once went to the local shop for a small turnny and like 6 or 7 people where going on a deck based on Birds of Paradise and/or Llanowar Elves + Call of the Heard + Overrun. I once seen a guy get two birds on turn 1, then a 3/3 Elephant on turn two. By turn five you most definitely will be Overrun then.
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(6 votes)
A sad victim of power creep, but still fun.
Mephastopheles
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It's Nellie the Elephant in card form!
Mightyass
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Eved well, its not that impossible to cast two birds on turn one - Chrome mox usually helps (Or any other mox, or gemstone caverns). Not that it would happen often, but its not impossible.
Demoncollecter
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
A pretty good card, I like the flashback ability. I still gotta ask, why did they make this card if they already had Elephant Ambush?
NuckChorris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Somehow training armodons actually made them worse. 1 3/3 Elephant plus another later vs a 3/3 Trained Armodon with more specific mana cost. But the Armodon is a creature so it isn't technically strictly worse.
SAllison87
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh My God it's a...a... Double Elephant!
This is a card worth playing because of the tempo and card advantage it provides. Turn one Llanowar Elves followed by T2 elephant and T3 2nd elephant is a great early game. The second elephant allows you to not play your drawn card, providing card advantage while still having a 3/3 body on the field.
Better yet is to play something like Blastoderm on turn 3, saving the second elephant for when the deck slows down.
TheHandyman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
OK my eyesight must be going. At first glance I read this as "Call of the Nerd". Must be from Unhinged or Unglued.
Wonder what kind of token you'd get with that?
Eved
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@John-Bender: "I once seen a guy get two birds on turn 1, then a 3/3 Elephant on turn two." Oh really? Let me guess, He played a forest, tapped it, played the first bird, pulled out his Sharpie and wrote haste on it, then tapped it to bring out the other. You don't have to lie to say people get them out on turn 2. That can be done by playing T1- Forest, Llanowar Elves/Birds of Paradise. T2- Forest, Call of the Herd.
This is card advantage and it's a 3/3 for 3cmc. It's a great card and I always consider it for my green decks until I think of Leatherback Baloth.
EDIT: @Mightyass I wasn't saying it's impossible. I was saying that I don't believe their story. Having a Mox would negate the need for the 2nd Bird.
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I just watched a David Ochoa cube draft and he just made a Call Me Maybe joke with this card. Where's my rifle?
Jerec_Onyx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Guys, guys, I think what we're all forgetting what this card was made for...populate.
Stuflames
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Even with power creep this thing seems just fine for the low color weight and reasonable cost for the effect. Plus, now we have populate.
Doaj
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I really want to put this in a deck in Modern. It's a format where every ounce of card advantage counts, and this card is nothin if not efficient. Easily cast on T2, easily splashed, great art. And one o my favorite things about Flashback is how much the opponent hates countering it when they know it'll be right back. White got Lingering Souls, but green has ways had Call of the Herd.
patronofthesound
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is a nice card, feels solid when you play it even to the present. Likes parallel lives a lot. I also like assault/battery
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well, its not that impossible to cast two birds on turn one - Chrome mox usually helps (Or any other mox, or gemstone caverns). Not that it would happen often, but its not impossible.
This is a card worth playing because of the tempo and card advantage it provides. Turn one Llanowar Elves followed by T2 elephant and T3 2nd elephant is a great early game. The second elephant allows you to not play your drawn card, providing card advantage while still having a 3/3 body on the field.
Better yet is to play something like Blastoderm on turn 3, saving the second elephant for when the deck slows down.
Wonder what kind of token you'd get with that?
"I once seen a guy get two birds on turn 1, then a 3/3 Elephant on turn two." Oh really? Let me guess, He played a forest, tapped it, played the first bird, pulled out his Sharpie and wrote haste on it, then tapped it to bring out the other. You don't have to lie to say people get them out on turn 2. That can be done by playing T1- Forest, Llanowar Elves/Birds of Paradise. T2- Forest, Call of the Herd.
This is card advantage and it's a 3/3 for 3cmc. It's a great card and I always consider it for my green decks until I think of Leatherback Baloth.
EDIT:
@Mightyass
I wasn't saying it's impossible. I was saying that I don't believe their story. Having a Mox would negate the need for the 2nd Bird.