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Varchild's War-Riders

Multiverse ID: 3187

Varchild's War-Riders

Comments (14)

ttian
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (7 votes)
This card needs horsemanship
Selez
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0) (4 votes)
Great flavor, fine card for aggro when you don't have any other options, like ANY... I mean, who wants to give blockers to the opponent in an aggro deck? You'd have to bone splinters this guy almost immediately just to prevent him from getting out of hand.
I hate rampage. Lure is amazing with it, but in all other contexts it's often useless.
jugglingguy
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (6 votes)
ttian:
but horsemanship is the flying of portal three kingdoms, so nope.
i see where you are coming from tho
littlebeast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (5 votes)
No, this card needs double strike and lure.
Moxen
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
aether flash anyone?
GrimjawxRULES
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
@ttian: just throw Nemesis Mask on and run with some Pyroclasms and/or similar cards. Pretty decent red beater, and it even has trample.
exterion
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
You can use Leyline of Singularity to almost completely nullify his drawback
A3Kitsune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
New Mirrodin Besieged creature Massacre Wurm goes great with the Riders. And anything else that gives your opponents 1/1 tokens.
Fanaticmogg
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (5 votes)
One of the few decent uses of Rampage.
Talon06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
You would not be able to use Leyline of Singularity to nullify the drawback of this card. Although the tokens would technically be legendary, they have no names. The legend rule states that two legendary cards with the same name cannot be in play at the same time.

I like to use this with a lured Engulfing Slagworm. Not only do they lose all the survivors, but I get to gain large amounts of life.
bfellow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Actually the tokens are all called "Survivor" like Wurmcoil Engine tokens are called "Wurm." Thus, they all die to legend rule. This also affects "Saproling", "Zombie", etc.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card needs Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. :P

I note the Survivors... are not Human. :|
Purplerooster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nice with Izzet Staticaster to continually take out the 1/1 chump blocker.
JoeNitrate
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This, Æther Flash, and Dingus Staff