Funny, if you have just enough to pay for monstrosity, you have just enough to pay for another afterwords.
Doaj
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Hard to rate this card less than a 4 when it's a 4/5 for 4cmc in red. The Monstrosity bumped it another .5, but haste would've been so much more appreciated. Still, a copy for my cube isn't unreasonable.
This seems like a great choice on turn four after you play Hammer of Purphoros.
Fenix.
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Base stats are really solid, monstrosity is just gravy and it happens to be gravy that brings back your opponent into the lands range your deck is more comfortable with.
Flyheight
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Solid base stats and wicked cool art. Looks like a lavaborne manticore. The Monstrosity does what it says. Makes things monstrous. totally boning your opponent's late game plan.
Purplerooster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
You won't need those lands anyway.
ultratog1028
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Why isn't this a Manticore?
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
At Stone Rain rates {2}{R}, blowing up three lands should cost {9} mana, ish. or {6}{R}{R}{R}, which could be turned into {3}{R}{R}{R}{R} and still sound reasonable. {5}{R}{R} isn't much of a discount, it's pretty much Violent Ultimatum splash-washed. OK, so ability is just normal-fair.
But that is still a creature that comes with a great Monstrous activation :D
Would probably prefer it if it was two lands and {3}{R}{R}, but this is better for multiplayer.
infernox10
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I just realized how bonkers this thing gets at my FNM today. On the play: T1: Stomping Ground(shocked), Elvish Mystic. T2: Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, tap Mystic and Grounds, Burning-Tree Emissary into another BTE, using the GR to activate Shrine for Devotion to Red for Swallower. T3: Using Shrine activation again w/ Mystic, Monstrosity, taking away the only three lands from the opposing player.
I get how ridiculously lucky the hand is, but it's still an absolutely crazy thing to see irl.
Manite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The type line says Elemental, but he was a beast at the prerelease. Almost every time he got monstrous, which wasn't terribly difficult thanks to the Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx I pulled, it meant victory. The loss of land wasn't a big deal either. So glad I chose Warrior.
YawgmothsWish
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Just ignore the infinitely expensive monstrosity cost.
The Monstrosity bumped it another 0.0001.
It's still a 4/5 for 4 mana - a very efficient creature.
Gaiden.17
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Based on the Monstrosity text, presuming enough mana, could I target three lands to sacrifice, but then sacrifice one or more of them from another ability? It doesn't appear that the monstrosity ability is dependent on the sacrifice... The monstrous text doesn't say "target" lands, so does that mean, if I sacrificed one of the three lands from another source, I would then have to choose a different (i.e. 4th) land?
@Gaiden.17 If the other sacrifices would drop you bellow three lands, then you could sacrifice less to ember Swallower, but you can not sacrifice the same permanent to multiple effects.
TheShadow344
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Been using this in conjunction with Primeval Titan to ramp into its monstrosity cost and to ensure I only end up losing one land to my opponent's three.
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t2 - Burning-Tree Emissary into Molten Birth
t3 - Xenagos, the Reveler into Ember Swallower
t4 - go monstrous
The Monstrosity does what it says. Makes things monstrous. totally boning your opponent's late game plan.
But that is still a creature that comes with a great Monstrous activation :D
Would probably prefer it if it was two lands and {3}{R}{R}, but this is better for multiplayer.
On the play:
T1: Stomping Ground(shocked), Elvish Mystic.
T2: Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx, tap Mystic and Grounds, Burning-Tree Emissary into another BTE, using the GR to activate Shrine for Devotion to Red for Swallower.
T3: Using Shrine activation again w/ Mystic, Monstrosity, taking away the only three lands from the opposing player.
I get how ridiculously lucky the hand is, but it's still an absolutely crazy thing to see irl.
The Monstrosity bumped it another 0.0001.
It's still a 4/5 for 4 mana - a very efficient creature.
Example (Standard Format): Encroaching Wastes, Grove of the Guardian, Hammer of Purphoros
If the other sacrifices would drop you bellow three lands, then you could sacrifice less to ember Swallower, but you can not sacrifice the same permanent to multiple effects.
Good enough for more casual circles.