3/5 Giant for {3}{W}{W}? Unless there's a tribal option here, he's kinda "meh".
DaLucaray
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
He kinda reminds me of the Auriok. Gee, I wonder how Mirrodin is doing, sure hope nothing bad has happened to them...
Purplerooster
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Because Seige Mastadon was too splashable?
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I got the Auriok resemblance too.
Anyway, really, really meh. There are a lot of better options even in limited.
Abl
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Hey, hey, the whole point of this fella here and all the other miscellaneous vanillas in the set is to tell the story of "The Champion" through The Theriad. It's a cool idea at least.
PurpleKilnFiend
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I thought the same thing, Purplerooster (Purple...are win kin-mates? O:) until I thought about it a bit more and realized that a strictly worse Siege Mastodon is not actually strictly worse in a format with devotion. And as a 5-drop, the slightly tougher mana cost is unlikely to matter most of the time. Really smart way of supporting devotion decks in limited on Wizards' part, and on a vanilla common, too!
SpaceMagic
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
"Garbage? This is ARTAAAAAAAAAA!"
Klise
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Yes, there's a seemingly unnecessary extra W mana in its cost, even for limited. Has everyone forgotten about devotion already, though?
Fenix.
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
When I first saw this card, I didn't notice his lower body, and kept thinking it's a hovering Giant torso.
Tiggurix
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
That guy looks like a refugee from Mirrodin. Perhaps Elspeth took him with her when she fled what would become New Phyrexia. Makes me wonder if we're going to see a Phyrexian invasion of Theros later in this block, though probably not.
Strictly better is fine, but by the gods does it need to be in the same friggin' set? you could have at least made it color heavy for devotion, or something.
Wizards of the Coast usually avoids putting cards that are strictly better than another in the same limited environment, but they decided White really needed a low-powered medium-sized creature with to help limited devotion decks. You might want to pair this guy with Evangel of Heliod if you draft them (although they're both pretty weak), but you'll never want to choose Silent Artisan over Hundred-Handed One in a constructed deck.
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Anyway, really, really meh. There are a lot of better options even in limited.
So in conclusion this card is probably one of the best Devotion enablers.
Also...
Man, this card blows.
If it were really worth its weight, it'd be a 4/5 for
Strictly better is fine, but by the gods does it need to be in the same friggin' set? you could have at least made it color heavy for devotion, or something.