@ flaviola: Gotta work on that material ;) Lightning Mauler "While my Goblin Piker gently weeps." Posted By: lorendorky (4/26/2012 9:34:11 PM)
The_Evictee
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lemme guess...he used to work at the irs.
LordOfTheFlies87
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
What a douche.
Purplerooster
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Catholic?
blindthrall
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(8 votes)
"...unless you're a prepubescent boy. Then c'mon in."
chrome_dome
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
3/5. The church usher just stole my lunch money. Pious bastard!
CastleOrange
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
So excellent in limited. You'll play six of these.
Specter_Fanatic13
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I love the art. The evil smile he's giving while clutching the mace behind him. Like he's gonna give you a rap on the noggin for not giving tithe to good ole Orzhova. Also, the little thrull clutching the money sack is adorably helpful. Steve Prescott, I salute your work.
The card itself is neat. I prefer cheap extort creatures so I can flood the field with them, and a bear with extort is fairly useful.
Hashbeth
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Mediocre in limited, awesome in multiplayer.
Though he's not the most competitive of cards, he can be absolutely beastly in casual, esp. if you play a lot of multiplayer. And there are worse things to throw down for too mana. A fun card, cool art, nice flavor, mediocre stats:
3.25/5
The_Trendkill
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Tax Bear is really good. You don't often get a two-drop who can be relevant at any stage of the game, but this one is.
d-101
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
One of my favorite cards. Simple, and flavor-wise, quite fun. Plus, it has the cleric creature type, so it gets some synergy beyond simple Orzhov and extort. 3.5/5 (but 5/5 for flavor)
Toes_of_Krosa
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
guize luk itz da extort bear sick value woot woot
RAV0004
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
FUN FACT TIME
Extort is a dual ability that appears equally in both black and white, like first strike is dual colored ability that appears equally in both white and red. (see boros recruit, Tundra Wolves, Striking Sliver) In fact there's no reason at all it should say "pay w/b", since only white and black cards have the cost... It should have just been printed as "pay an extra 1,..." Except for one reason:
Mark Rosewater specifically requested the design team to make Extort have the hybrid w/b cost in it so that extort cards could only be used in white AND black EDH decks, not one or the other.
Or, more accurately, he designed it so that the people in charge of the EDH format would remove the ridiculous (in his mind) rule that hybrid cards can't be played in mono colored EDH decks. In Magic Design, Hybrids are cards that can fit into either of the colors it is (for example, Merfolk of the Depths is a card that could be printed at 4GG OR 4UU, without changing or editing anything besides perhaps it's creature types in any way. Gold Cards on the other hand, are cards that give abilities that exist solely because the card is that color (Skyward Eye Prophets gets vigilance because it's white, card draw because it's blue, and land accel, however bad, because it's green. With any one of those colors lacking, they would not have printed skyward eye the way it was).
It's interesting to note that the people who run Elder Dragon Highlander changed the entire rule on color identity just to spite the entire design philosophy behind hybrid costs, and the whole point of extort, while still allowing this card to be run in mono White EDH decks.
docjarvisd09
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@RAV0004 Except this card can be played in mono-white EDH. That w/b? That's reminder text, and doesn't factor into the card's color identity, nor has it ever. The rules didn't change just to screw with extort. Those have just always been the rules. The reason the cost is w/b instead of 1 is for flavor reasons. Only Orzhovic mana can extort people, because of course it can. If a Boros drafter wants to use this guy and extort, he has to use mana that an Orzhov mage would have. He can't use red, red is the color of...not extort.
Comments (18)
It's the Tax Bear!
@ flaviola: Gotta work on that material ;)
Lightning Mauler
"While my Goblin Piker gently weeps."
Posted By: lorendorky (4/26/2012 9:34:11 PM)
The card itself is neat. I prefer cheap extort creatures so I can flood the field with them, and a bear with extort is fairly useful.
Though he's not the most competitive of cards, he can be absolutely beastly in casual, esp. if you play a lot of multiplayer. And there are worse things to throw down for too mana. A fun card, cool art, nice flavor, mediocre stats:
3.25/5
3.5/5 (but 5/5 for flavor)
sick value woot woot
Extort is a dual ability that appears equally in both black and white, like first strike is dual colored ability that appears equally in both white and red. (see boros recruit, Tundra Wolves, Striking Sliver) In fact there's no reason at all it should say "pay w/b", since only white and black cards have the cost... It should have just been printed as "pay an extra 1,..." Except for one reason:
Mark Rosewater specifically requested the design team to make Extort have the hybrid w/b cost in it so that extort cards could only be used in white AND black EDH decks, not one or the other.
Or, more accurately, he designed it so that the people in charge of the EDH format would remove the ridiculous (in his mind) rule that hybrid cards can't be played in mono colored EDH decks. In Magic Design, Hybrids are cards that can fit into either of the colors it is (for example, Merfolk of the Depths is a card that could be printed at 4GG OR 4UU, without changing or editing anything besides perhaps it's creature types in any way. Gold Cards on the other hand, are cards that give abilities that exist solely because the card is that color (Skyward Eye Prophets gets vigilance because it's white, card draw because it's blue, and land accel, however bad, because it's green. With any one of those colors lacking, they would not have printed skyward eye the way it was).
It's interesting to note that the people who run Elder Dragon Highlander changed the entire rule on color identity just to spite the entire design philosophy behind hybrid costs, and the whole point of extort, while still allowing this card to be run in mono White EDH decks.