A shame that Magic's first catoblepas had to be this mediocre. For reference, the mythical catoblepas was an ox-like beast whose heavy head dragged on the ground, whose stench was suffocating, and whose mere gaze was deadly.
SkyknightXi
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
I know I wasn't sure this QUITE merited being called "catoblepas", since the term was a neologism of Pliny the Elder's meaning "downward gazing". The head's fifty degrees too high.
Interestingly enough, Pliny wasn't Hellenic, but Roman--and he was the first to describe the catoblepas. However, I'm wondering if catoblepases in Theros might be a kind of inside joke about D&D. Namely, D&D's gorgon creatures were THEMSELVES catoblepases with a touch of Stonka (from Hungarian myth).
JimmyNoobPlayer
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(4 votes)
Should've been called Festering Catoblepas. (Just kidding plz don't kill me, Vorthos.)
Purplerooster
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Interesting, Comboes with itself, can be removal, but ultimately overcosted.
NinStarRune
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It certainly is loathsome.
Petertracy
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Just a little overcosted. Perhaps if it was 5cmc and 3/2 it would be a tastefully playable common, like countless others in Theros?
Lazrbeams
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As someone who played first edition DnD, this is really, really underwhelming. Seriously, catoblepas' were ridiculous, this thing should have AT LEAST had deathtouch, gorgons have deathtouch because they have a stars that turns you to stone, the catoblepas does the same thing, I am ashamed wizards.
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Interestingly enough, Pliny wasn't Hellenic, but Roman--and he was the first to describe the catoblepas. However, I'm wondering if catoblepases in Theros might be a kind of inside joke about D&D. Namely, D&D's gorgon creatures were THEMSELVES catoblepases with a touch of Stonka (from Hungarian myth).
Perhaps if it was 5cmc and 3/2 it would be a tastefully playable common, like countless others in Theros?