@ClockworkSwordfish: This card works with control decks VERY well since they run cards like Stasis, which make it impossible for any player to do anything, and then use Chronatog to prevent them from ever having a turn where' they'd have to pay the upkeep costs. Their opponent mills themself out.
izzet_guild_mage
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
This card is so silly. Who'd have thought advantage could be found in skipping all of your turns? :P Also, I'd be wiling to wager that the original playtest version of this card didn't have the "once per turn" bit, and it took someone swinging in for 100 and skipping the rest of the game for the mistake to be caught :)
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(10 votes)
Yeah, let's make Stasis even more degenerate. Good idea, team.
Perfect_Genetics
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
One of my favorite creatures of all time.
qaq456
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(5 votes)
@izzet_guild_mage then their opponent kills it with Terror. 33 free turns? Yes please.
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
ok, other than being annoying, like with stasis, when is this actually helpful??
pedrodyl
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Flavorwise, IT EATS TIME. NOM. Also, all the other atogs were mostly sacrifice/discard outlets. It's kinda funny to think of this guy as a "skip your turns" outlet in a stasis deck.
Radiant_Phoenix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can this slip you out of Mind Slaver by skipping the turn you would be controlled in?
Chamale
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ Radiant_Phoenix: No. Mindslaver reads "during that player's next turn", so your opponent gains control of the next turn you actually take. Skipping turns with Chronatog won't help you dodge the effect.
Ragamander
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Arachibutyrophobia:
When it's being used with Tangle Wire and/or Smokestack. Wait, no, that's a lot like Stasis. How about with anything that hurts both players during the upkeep? Like...uh...Karma? With Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth? Or how about just as a 4/5 for for that last 4 damage? You know, in mono-blue aggro...
Enelysios
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Oh how I love chronotog's art! I am glad this has the 'incorrect' text on it too, I hate any ability with a cost involving . (Yes, I get it, but still!)
I have never played a stasis deck, but I do love chronatog! He has won me a variety of games as blue-beatdown. Maybe is a bit below the curve these days, what with how strong creatures are getting, but there is nothing like hitting your opponent with a chronatog for the winning blow. :)
Flavor, art, power and creativity. Chronatog is among my favorite cards of all time!
Arachnos
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I don't get the flavor text. Why does it say "no meal like the present" while it clearly eats your NEXT turn (the future)?
zeibura
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Chronatog + Kismet + Stasis. Probably outdated now, but back in the extended of the 6th edition days it killed.
Tiggurix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Seems to me to be cool to feed him with Savor the Moment, if you are not attacking for the win.
@Arachibutyrophobia: That's easy. When you want to push in the last four damage in a swing for the win. After all, you don't need your next turn if you've already won!
(Atogs are voracious. Every other Atog will eat as much as there is to eat and as much as you see fit to feed it. That's not Chronatog. Chronatog is like the weight watcher who turns down food because he's "watching his calories". I bet all the other Atogs see him as a bit of a weirdo)
RyantheWaterboy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
THAT FACE
creepycrawler
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A Magic card that EATS TIME? Who'd have thunk it?
Also, where's the Doctor when you need him?
Kurraga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I disagree with the errata to make the skip a turn thing a part of the ability rather than a cost. It goes against the flavour of the card (he eats your next turn, then gets bigger. Not the strongest flavour, but it's there) and the "Make the cards do what say on the most tcent printing of the card in oracle" policy (except in the case of misprints, I think Walking Atlas has every right to be an artifact).
I can understand "skip your next turn as a cost is bad" as a design policy, but changes in policy shouldn't affect older cards.
sweetgab
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If a cheap two-card combo (Statis + something like Kismet) allows you to win the game even after you skip all your turns with Chronatog, is it really the fault of Chronatog or Stasis?
Huitzil
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy is completely tripping balls.
"Oh man, I am so high right now, I am actually chewing time!"
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Biiiiig SMILES!! :D
MasterOfTheVault
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just imagine this guy, In the goofiest, Stupidest voice you can, Saying this.
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Also, I'd be wiling to wager that the original playtest version of this card didn't have the "once per turn" bit, and it took someone swinging in for 100 and skipping the rest of the game for the mistake to be caught :)
Also, all the other atogs were mostly sacrifice/discard outlets. It's kinda funny to think of this guy as a "skip your turns" outlet in a stasis deck.
When it's being used with Tangle Wire and/or Smokestack. Wait, no, that's a lot like Stasis.
How about with anything that hurts both players during the upkeep? Like...uh...Karma? With Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth?
Or how about just as a 4/5 for
I have never played a stasis deck, but I do love chronatog! He has won me a variety of games as blue-beatdown. Maybe is a bit below the curve these days, what with how strong creatures are getting, but there is nothing like hitting your opponent with a chronatog for the winning blow. :)
Flavor, art, power and creativity. Chronatog is among my favorite cards of all time!
@Arachibutyrophobia: That's easy. When you want to push in the last four damage in a swing for the win. After all, you don't need your next turn if you've already won!
(Atogs are voracious. Every other Atog will eat as much as there is to eat and as much as you see fit to feed it. That's not Chronatog. Chronatog is like the weight watcher who turns down food because he's "watching his calories". I bet all the other Atogs see him as a bit of a weirdo)
Also, where's the Doctor when you need him?
I can understand "skip your next turn as a cost is bad" as a design policy, but changes in policy shouldn't affect older cards.
"Oh man, I am so high right now, I am actually chewing time!"
'DUUUUUUUUR'