Better than it reads... unless you're InQuest, who rated it the #4 card in Odyssey. It's not THAT good.
bloodyspasm
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Not a major drawback because the only deck you'd be playing this in is an aggro deck. could also proove to be a halfway decent way to put cards in the yard.
Chrisrawr
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
A couple of these are nice with a couple of donates in a blue/black deck.
ratchet1215
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
It's rather good, but really, it's not incredible...it's still an Air Elemental for 1 less with a drawback that may heavily impact your deck.
Haha Air Elemental has been beat by Serra Sphinx, so no point using this guy much though. TOGETHER THOUGH, whoa.
Tahazzar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well, Conundrum Sphinx is pushing boundaries here. This still cool though.
Baconradar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just a sweet old blue beatdown card. Flavour is interesting too.
4/5
blindthrall
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
How many bonafide aliens are in Magic? Phyrexians don't count.
ChaosFire
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
You're missing the point...it's not a drawback.
This card was printed in a block with threshold cards, and what better way to fill a graveyard than to power things like this out so that end of turn you discard half your hand?
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4/5
This card was printed in a block with threshold cards, and what better way to fill a graveyard than to power things like this out so that end of turn you discard half your hand?
Well designed for block constructed.
Very efficient for a blue flyer. Get this through enough and your maximum hand size won't matter.
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How do you discard down to -17 cards?