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Pretty narrow, but swats down everything under Avacyn, Angel of Hope level...

This is why I prefer to use the train.

Flyers that survive this in standard post-rotation (not counting guys that pump themselves):



That's it. Would be great if Plummet wasn't a card.

If Satyr Firebreather somehow obtains flying than this has its use over plummet...

Barring some strategy involving Spitemare/Boros Reckoner/Stuffy Doll, why wouldn't you just save 1 mana and cast Plummet instead?

At least the card 'slaps' annoying flyers away such as Baneslayer Angel, dragons and most importantly, Storm Crow

So... Crushing Vines existed... Hmm...

I feel like Wizards is printing all of these bad cards to make us appreciate other sets like Innistrad more. Not once have I heard someone say, "Innistrad was a great set!" as much as people do for Rise of the Eldrazi, or Urza's Saga.

But now, I'm expecting people to say things like, "Ahh... I remember when I could play an indefinite kill spell on flyers... those were the good old days..."

Maybe if you try really hard you can work in a Treacherous Link?

Considering that green has Plummet, I don't really understand why this card was released...

If this were in Innistrad, it would've been 13 damage.

For some reason I'm a sucker for drafting Plummet whenever I play green. And then inevitably it will sit in my hand the entire game as I wait for my opponent to play a flyer that never comes. And this card costs more and theoretically kills less creatures. I'm going to have to pass on this card. I hear some people use a sideboard though and that's where this card will find its place.

Thanks Wizards, these Windreader Sphinxes got really out of hand.

I ran the flavor text through Bad Translator and it became "Wow, Peter Buck. Muscle weakness."

In Theros Límited this is one of the only answers that Green/White decks have to the menace of Stormbreath Dragon which has Protection from White, at least hold on to these for sideboarding. This card can even kill a Stormbreath that is Monstruous!

The function of this card is subpar compared to others like plummet (which, frankly, was undercosted), but what I really like about it is the flavor. Don't shoot it with a leaf. Don't banish it from the universe. Don't distract it or placate it. Don't launch a giant stick at it. Don't strike it with lightning, or slit its throat, or melt its bones, or implode it's skull. Don't catch it with a net, or jab it with a poison dart, or even catch it in a giant spider web. Buffet it with winds so violent that even exceptionally bulky dragons are rent asunder.

Sometimes a (high) number just feels more powerful than an absolute effect, and isn't feeling powerful essential to the appeal of magic?

Why play this over plummet? Hit your own Centaur Battlemaster enchanted by a Nimbus Naiad.

... Trigger.