Normally I comment on the cards for what they do. But this is so scary, I just want to put an emphasis on that.
marmaris74
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
His ability is very misleading. Let's say you have a 5/5 Experiment One. I play a bolt on him. That's cool, so you don't respond. Then I play another. In response, you remove 2 counters to save him... and he dies as a SBA before his ability can resolve.
Additionally: Let's say I attack with a 5/5. You block with a 5/5 Experiment One. You might not realize it, but there is no way for your guy to live and mine to die. You have to regenerate before damage if you want to live, in which case your guy only swings for 3.
Don't be fooled. His ability is worse than it seems.
(But still, G for 1/1 evolve is pretty cool.)
darkrai88
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
All regeneration abilities aside, a 1-drop 1/1 with Evolve is scary powerful. I fully expect to see him turn into the next Wild Nacatl or Scythe Tiger. Obviously it's a bit worse due to its dependence on other creatures, but this thing will still get decently big crazy fast. Be prepared.
Tiggurix
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I love the illustration and the creature type! True Simic craziness! Crossbreed humans and oozes everyday FOR SCIENCE!
Azuman
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I could not see myself running a standard mono green deck or even a deck where green is one of the color and NOT run this. At least 75% of the time if this is in your opening hand, you are going to be playing at LEAST a 2/1 or 1/2 on second turn. That puts him on speed with Rakdos Cackler. And he can still block.
Oh, and to marmaris74. In your second example don't forget: I can decide NOT to regenrate. In which case I traded a 1-drop for what was likely a more exspensive creature. Also, even if I DO regenerate, if the other 5/5 doesn't have trample, that's still 3 chump blocks off of one creature. There are not alot of 1-drops who could do that.
Purplerooster
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm already excited for Experiment Two!
RedJaron
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With all the counter shifting Simic has, you'll be hard pressed to run out of regen counters.
Stinga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
EVERYTHING ON THIS IS GREAT!
shotoku64
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Put him in a {GW} human deck for lulz
Virde
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"His ability is very misleading. Let's say you have a 5/5 Experiment One. I play a bolt on him. That's cool, so you don't respond. Then I play another. In response, you remove 2 counters to save him... and he dies as a SBA before his ability can resolve."
I'll two for one with you every day. Please use two burn spells to waste my one creature.
AncientTimer
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(4 votes)
Just pathetic compared to Cloudfin Raptor. And that is a common.
Kaeru_Jones
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(6 votes)
Am I the only one bothered by his name? Experiment One As in their FIRST EXPERIMENT ??? Severe Lack of Legendary ??? I mean, how is it that there could be more than four of the first experiment
Buzzhorn1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's not even hard for it to be a 3/3 on t2 in standard.
T1: Experiment One T2: Emissary, Unleashed Chainwalker, EO is now a 3/3
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pretty good design. Pretty good card. Especially with a nice golgari Corpsejack Menace huehuehue @Buzzhorn1: lern to autocard.
BilliamQ
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
@marmaris74: Bro, do you even card advantage? If you Bolt my Experiment One twice, you just 2-for-1ed yourself. Over a one drop, no less. And if you trade your 5/5 for my Experiment One, that's probably a pretty good deal in terms of mana investments too.
I do agree with you on his ability being only situationally useful. But the fact that it can either deter a single Bolt from being played or eat two for the team... definitely not bad.
Frenzy13
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Human Ooze= awesome
Coralus
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Does this confirm that Squidward is a science experiment?
psychichobo
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Human decks are a lot sillier than anyone on Innistrad could ever have imagined.
'I vant to suck your... blood... umm...'
jayauriemma01
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If Experiment One came back into play by means of an Angel of Glory's Rise with about 3 other creatures, how would evolve trigger? Just for the creature with the largest power and toughness? or for each individual creature?
collapsed_wave
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Evolve checks the power and toughness in order to trigger the ability and a second time when it is resolved. So when Angel of Glories Rise etb multiple instances of evolve may trigger, but not all of them will necessarily resolve. So stack the triggers accordingly!
A good example for limited would be casting Experiment One and then Knight Watch. When the two 2/2 Knights etb two instances of evolve will trigger and stack. When the first one resolves EO becomes a 2/2 and the second instance will fizzle.
azure_drake222222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Next Experiments: Experiment Two Experiment Three Experiment Kraj
OrgasmandTea
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I feel like this is underwhelming compared to Champion of the Parish. Why the heck does white get more powerful creatures than green? But aside from that, the fact that you can see his internal organs is so freakin' cool. Imagine him at a rave!
Monkeypantsa
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Turn 1: This Turn 2: This, Rakdos Cackler. Both Experiments evolve, smack for 2 with first one Turn 3: Dreg Mangler, Experiments evolve again, smack for 11 Turn 4: Crowned Ceratok, yet another evolution, whap for 13. Simic aggro? What?
Mode
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Kaeru_Jones Maybe you have to read it as "experiment of type 1". There could be dozens of "type 1" experiments, if "one" merely stands for the fusion type (e.g. human + ooze). You could be right though and this card represents their first experiment. It wouldn't be the first non-legendary creature that sounds like it's actually a singleton.
This guy swings for 2 on turn 2 AND has a regen ability for no mana. I love that. Stacks up nicely against Rakdos Cackler.
Toquinha1977
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Kaeru_Jones: Any good scientific experiment would need control groups and a lot of test subjects. Maybe what you're seeing is not so much the actual Experiment One, but the test subject.
Enemy_Tricolor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Human ooze"?
Ewwwww.
Smoke_Stack
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@collapsed_wave: wouldn't removing the counters trigger regenerate and thereby save the creature? I mean I see what you're getting at but I was under the impression that regenerate removes all damage from the creature...
edit: and then i read the rulings. wow, that does suck lol
Continue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm using these guys as Champion of the Parish 5-8 in my Naya Humans deck. Not quite as good but he gets boosted by Restoration Angel while Champion doesn't.
Osprey_93
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Kaeru_Jones, it does not say "first" it says experiment "one" meaning it has a place holder of 1 among future experiments (ex: experiments 2, 3, 4) and experiment one was simply replicated because It was obviously successful.
I guess Simic likes to keep it's test tube monsters organized :P
HowardTreesong
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
One of the best non-rare creatures this set, first turn drop and can grow very quickly. Although it is 'human', it doesn't work so well in human tribal decks as there are few humans that are more than 2 for either attribute. It's not Champion of the Parish, but it's can be very strong anyway.
bohplayer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I liked the old times better, when humans were humans and horses were horses.
TheWaddleDeeKing
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Eh. I feel he's pretty average in most respects. He's not bad, but even with a few evolves he's still not that good either. He definitely has good power/toughness to make use of evolve though, I'll give him that.
chainsmoker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this should be named ten tentacles. and i've seen enough #3+@1 to know where this is going.
patronofthesound
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The green champion of the parish
whoiam
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Human Ooze, lol, I thought I would never see that coming. "Experiment One" appears right below another one in the text box, it looks so odd.
"Not bad, but it doesn't grow as fast as Scute Bug and is weaker th--"
--Ahem.
This is a Human Ooze.
Your argument is invalid.
Tamerlein
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
While this guy is no Champion of the Parish, he is still an auto include in any Standard human deck which has green, and he actually sees a decent amount of Modern play as well. His ability to regenerate even if you don't have mana open is very powerful.
So the flavour is it can take some of its slimy flesh, detach it from its body, and have the Lightning Bolt hit that rather than being hit itself by the lightning?
Pongdok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Experiment One can chump block all day long if you keep him out for a few turns first. If your opponent wants to waste removal on him, great. Enough decisions like that will let you cruise to an easy victory. You want Mr. Ooze to make you breakfast too? The cmc is 1. Don't be greedy. 5/5
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But this is so scary, I just want to put an emphasis on that.
Additionally: Let's say I attack with a 5/5. You block with a 5/5 Experiment One. You might not realize it, but there is no way for your guy to live and mine to die. You have to regenerate before damage if you want to live, in which case your guy only swings for 3.
Don't be fooled. His ability is worse than it seems.
(But still, G for 1/1 evolve is pretty cool.)
Oh, and to marmaris74. In your second example don't forget: I can decide NOT to regenrate. In which case I traded a 1-drop for what was likely a more exspensive creature. Also, even if I DO regenerate, if the other 5/5 doesn't have trample, that's still 3 chump blocks off of one creature. There are not alot of 1-drops who could do that.
I'll two for one with you every day. Please use two burn spells to waste my one creature.
As in their FIRST EXPERIMENT
???
Severe Lack of Legendary ???
I mean, how is it that there could be more than four of the first experiment
T1: Experiment One
T2: Emissary, Unleashed Chainwalker, EO is now a 3/3
@Buzzhorn1: lern to autocard.
I do agree with you on his ability being only situationally useful. But the fact that it can either deter a single Bolt from being played or eat two for the team... definitely not bad.
'I vant to suck your... blood... umm...'
A good example for limited would be casting Experiment One and then Knight Watch. When the two 2/2 Knights etb two instances of evolve will trigger and stack. When the first one resolves EO becomes a 2/2 and the second instance will fizzle.
Experiment Two
Experiment Three
Experiment Kraj
Turn 2: This, Rakdos Cackler. Both Experiments evolve, smack for 2 with first one
Turn 3: Dreg Mangler, Experiments evolve again, smack for 11
Turn 4: Crowned Ceratok, yet another evolution, whap for 13.
Simic aggro? What?
There could be dozens of "type 1" experiments, if "one" merely stands for the fusion type (e.g. human + ooze).
You could be right though and this card represents their first experiment.
It wouldn't be the first non-legendary creature that sounds like it's actually a singleton.
This guy swings for 2 on turn 2 AND has a regen ability for no mana. I love that. Stacks up nicely against Rakdos Cackler.
Ewwwww.
edit: and then i read the rulings. wow, that does suck lol
I guess Simic likes to keep it's test tube monsters organized :P
--Ahem.
This is a Human Ooze.
Your argument is invalid.
5/5