I'm waiting until 12 mana to flash, monstrosity, and then get the profitable block in my Magical Christmas Land.
Trygon_Predator
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(9 votes)
Winged Coatl on 'roids, but with a far less appealing casting cost (the main draw of the coatl was that it was pretty much a 3-mana kill spell in unusual colors).
That said, it's still some gorgeous -flavored art. Would probably pull its weight in Limited if nowhere else.
Lady_Emelica
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
The white-greenish stuff on the right is not a rock. Those are scale cattle.
DaLucaray
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is beautiful.
TheWallinator74
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
It's cards like this that make me wish Monstrosity got more love.
HuntingDrake
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Four abilities on an uncommon! For the second time in / this block!
Lord_Skoonie
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I hearby dub thee 'Pea***atrice!'
yesennes
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
In both function and art it has lost the elegance of Winged Coatl to become a monstrosity.
LordRandomness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Flash plus Monstrosity is actually pretty dangerous. You can flash this out in your opponent's turn 6 and then immediately monsterize it on your turn. Obviously the dream is to kill something with the drop, but even without doing that the sudden surprise beater from nowhere can be well worth the mana.
PopcornBunni
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Every time I read this card I'm flabbergasted at how much is crammed into it.
3GU -- Alright, that's not that bad. GU has some great options for ramping or stalling to large mana.
3/3 -- So, it's only about -1/-1 from the curve. That's fine, it probably has some good mechanics to compensate.
"Flash" -- Oh, that's the ticket. Flashing in a 3-power dude is great for some unexpected kills or a medium body before your turn.
"Flying" -- Neat, so it can both flash into a flier and flash in for some unexpected and fast three evasive damage.
"Deathtouch" --Wait what. So it literally can flash in and kill a huge number of things, including evasive ones, AND swing for three in the air for five? This has to be the last thing on the card.
Monstrosity 3. Oh. Okay.
Absolutely beautiful.
Flyheight
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This card is sooooo beautiful. In both the art and the abilities. It's got soooo many synergistic abilities crammed into one card, much like the ludicrous Winged Coatl from Alara Reborn. Heck, the card even scales better than the coatl, so you get some economy of size bonuses going on here. For 2 more mana you get +2/+2 and 5GU:Monstrosity 3. At worst this is a 5 mana instant speed kill spell. At best it goes monstrous and starts smashing your opponents face for 6 in the air each turn. Such a powerhouse. I was always happy whenever it came up in my G/U ramp into fatties prerelease deck.
Melubb
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's an expensive cost 5 mana for 3/3 flyer with flash and deathtouch, which is not great in an quick aggro deck, but a brilliant late game card in control decks - when it becomes monstrious with 7 mana. Not as strong as Stormbreath dragon in Theros for 5 mana, but it have deathtouch for defense. A solid -UG- card in limited play with fly evasion and high pick, and it have some uses in constructed play too. An easy 4 star card.
Twinsuit
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wow. At the prerelease, this either (a) ate a kill spell, or (b) won the game.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm not ephemeral; eyes glowing red, I am the end of all Turn your heart to stone and leave you reeling up until you fall I'm half dragon, half chicken, all killer So strap yourself in, cause you're in for a thriller
I'm gonna catch you when you're walking alone And stop your heart cold, smiling as I turn you to stone So if you're brave, think twice; yes, the stories are true I'm not a fairytale, and I'm coming for you!
Morrinkt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I'd like to imagine the bird is screaming "SURPRISE, MOTHERF----R!" as it's flashed in to kill your opponent's creature.
CountRodrigo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Love the art and flare of this card but it dose not balance out. If they had not made this monstrous and given it a 4 toughness it would be great. There is no reason to ever pay 7 mana for just three counters. If they were to give it villagence that would work so that it would last late game. For three counters I would rather use heroic triggers. I wish this was better and will use it for casual games but that will be it.
Dr.Pingas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like it, but monstrosity? monsterous was sorta a strange ability and I really didn't like when it had no triggers, just a buff. My biggest issue was that you couldn't just cast the creature for the monstrosity cost from your hand - 7mana for a 6/6 flash flying dtouch? I'd do it
Enelysios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Winged Coatl was good because it was fast and practically a kill spell in simic colors. This is... well its a decent flier, it can kill things and it may even survive, but its no Winged Coatl. The idea is I guess to flash it on their turn, block something small and then monstrosity on your turn.
My issue is that this card is just so much text, its just a mash of abilities. That lets it do a bit of everything, but it makes the card inelegant and honestly cost too high to do anyone any good.
The art is everything that the text box isn't. Its great.
P1aneswalker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Run this in a ramp deck, then flash him in and make him monstrous mid combat just because you can.
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That said, it's still some gorgeous
3GU -- Alright, that's not that bad. GU has some great options for ramping or stalling to large mana.
3/3 -- So, it's only about -1/-1 from the curve. That's fine, it probably has some good mechanics to compensate.
"Flash" -- Oh, that's the ticket. Flashing in a 3-power dude is great for some unexpected kills or a medium body before your turn.
"Flying" -- Neat, so it can both flash into a flier and flash in for some unexpected and fast three evasive damage.
"Deathtouch" --Wait what. So it literally can flash in and kill a huge number of things, including evasive ones, AND swing for three in the air for five? This has to be the last thing on the card.
Monstrosity 3. Oh. Okay.
Absolutely beautiful.
a brilliant late game card in control decks - when it becomes monstrious with 7 mana.
Not as strong as Stormbreath dragon in Theros for 5 mana, but it have deathtouch for defense.
A solid -UG- card in limited play with fly evasion and high pick, and it have some uses in constructed play too. An easy 4 star card.
Turn your heart to stone and leave you reeling up until you fall
I'm half dragon, half chicken, all killer
So strap yourself in, cause you're in for a thriller
I'm gonna catch you when you're walking alone
And stop your heart cold, smiling as I turn you to stone
So if you're brave, think twice; yes, the stories are true
I'm not a fairytale, and I'm coming for you!
monsterous was sorta a strange ability and I really didn't like when it had no triggers, just a buff.
My biggest issue was that you couldn't just cast the creature for the monstrosity cost from your hand - 7mana for a 6/6 flash flying dtouch? I'd do it
My issue is that this card is just so much text, its just a mash of abilities. That lets it do a bit of everything, but it makes the card inelegant and honestly cost too high to do anyone any good.
The art is everything that the text box isn't. Its great.