I assume the point of this card having morph is that if there is no wizards on the table yet, you can still put this guy down as a 2/2 chump blocker. Assuming he survives a couple more turns you can flip him over once there's a few more wizards in play. However, playing him face up might make your opponent think twice about the creatures he's playing, so its a tough call. I agree that flying would have made it much stronger, and suited the flavour as well.
jumpenrun
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
So weak!
nekosan
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
O.O' Morph!?!?! The soulless one have a huge boost to P/T, the cleric have like-lifelink, and we poor blue players gotta stick with a morph? Shameful u.u Also, "wizards" is pheraps the worst tribal deck. Clerics prevent damage, zombies are quite powerful with the right choises, but wizards...
Fictionarious
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Wizards ban cards from being played (Meddling Mage), stack their controller's deck increasingly deep (Information Dealer), counter spells either singlehandedly or in cooperation (Ertai, Wizard Adept, Patron Wizard), and there's even a wizardcycler (Vedalken Aethermage) to find them when you need them. Just chiming in to defend wizards against the impression of bland power Nameless One would give you of them.
thaviel
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
only problem with mono blue wizards is win condition. this is a perfectly legitimate win condition. you can't call this card bad till you've had a mono blue beck play Patron Wizard against you if that happened there is a very real chance you will be unable to play another spell the whole game and this leaves you with man-lands uncounterables and what you've got fielded. so don't scoff at the big blue tornado he gets it done.
Eregis
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Reminds me of Tron's master control
SweLink88
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I agree with the stated: this creature shoud have flying rather than morph. Though he makes a good attacker and defender in my blue Wizard deck, he will not reach the opponent very easily unless I make him unblockable with Cephalid Pathmage or give him flying with Caller of Gales. And so far I've never needed to play him with his morph cost rather than his normal cost; by the time I can play him I have a bunch of Wizards out already.
Zoah
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(6 votes)
I really, really, hate morph. It's my least favorite ability in the game, unless paired up with a flip ability. However, in response to the anti wizard sentiment: I have two fully functioning, nasty wizard decks. In fact, in my opinion, wizards are one of the most flexible creature types in the game. They draw, they counter, they even mill.
As to this card: it's a four cost, this means that there only have to be three other wizards on the field to make him at least balanced. (He counts himself) With more, and latter in the game there will be, he could become very possibly very large.
Also, big wizards are not common at all. The biggest they get, without help, is 5/5. This guy provides size where it's needed.
Base rating: *** Potential: +* Useless morph: -* Big wizard: +* final" ****
Also, I must admit: there is just something really, really cool about a massive blue face tornado.
HuntedWumpusMustDie
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(10 votes)
nameless one = name
Lyoncet
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
In my opinion, this is one of the only older creatures that's gotten comparatively better as new sets have been released. Wizards as a tribe have really seen some amazing additions in the last few years, and nothing has really come in to fill the slot of a wizard beater win condition. And of course he fits right into your mana curve of turn 1 1-drop, turn 2 2-drop or 1-drop 1-drop, turn 3 Patron Wizard, turn 5 Azami, Lady of Scrolls or Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir.
Obviously only going to go into a few decks, but in those where he can find a home, he's the best there is at what he does.
face-fister
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Umm...Morph is so HEAT.The wizards start comin' out, and I tend to keep them out. Not only does this wizard look AWESOME, he's a big whacker when and where whacking is needed. I mean, wizards can just force you to concede by themselves- but this guy lets your opponent die with dignity.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
What does God need with a starship?
Lord_Ascapelion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Apparently, the original version of a lot of Onslaught wizard cards were a lot better. R&D got scared that the tribe would be too good, so they nerfed a lot of them, which results in stinkers like this one here: Clearly inferior to its counterparts. Oh well, at least Blue needed a break after Psychatog, am I right?
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
QUAID... OPEN YOUR MIND...
Phelplan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If I could redesign this card:
It would be called Superior Avatar (and it would be rare) Casting Cost (a gold card) Creature - Avatar Superior Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to the number of wizards you control. Flying, First Strike UR: Superior Avatar deals 1 damage to target creature, player, or planeswalker. U: If a wizard or planeswalker dealt damage by Superior Avatar was destroyed this turn, draw a card or draw two cards, respectively.
"Open your mind to me." */*
(Very powerful by comparison but with the drawback of it being a 0/0 without at least one wizard to power it. The flavor being that it is only as strong as the community or guild of wizards that is behind it.)
DoctorGii
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If there is anything he has learned in his travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man.
Comments (18)
The soulless one have a huge boost to P/T, the cleric have like-lifelink, and we poor blue players gotta stick with a morph? Shameful u.u
Also, "wizards" is pheraps the worst tribal deck. Clerics prevent damage, zombies are quite powerful with the right choises, but wizards...
Just chiming in to defend wizards against the impression of bland power Nameless One would give you of them.
this is a perfectly legitimate win condition.
you can't call this card bad till you've had a mono blue beck play Patron Wizard against you if that happened there is a very real chance you will be unable to play another spell the whole game and this leaves you with man-lands uncounterables and what you've got fielded. so don't scoff at the big blue tornado he gets it done.
As to this card: it's a four cost, this means that there only have to be three other wizards on the field to make him at least balanced. (He counts himself) With more, and latter in the game there will be, he could become very possibly very large.
Also, big wizards are not common at all. The biggest they get, without help, is 5/5. This guy provides size where it's needed.
Base rating: ***
Potential: +*
Useless morph: -*
Big wizard: +*
final" ****
Also, I must admit: there is just something really, really cool about a massive blue face tornado.
Obviously only going to go into a few decks, but in those where he can find a home, he's the best there is at what he does.
It would be called Superior Avatar (and it would be rare) Casting Cost
Creature - Avatar
Superior Avatar's power and toughness are each equal to the number of wizards you control.
Flying, First Strike
UR: Superior Avatar deals 1 damage to target creature, player, or planeswalker.
U: If a wizard or planeswalker dealt damage by Superior Avatar was destroyed this turn, draw a card or draw two cards, respectively.
"Open your mind to me." */*
(Very powerful by comparison but with the drawback of it being a 0/0 without at least one wizard to power it. The flavor being that it is only as strong as the community or guild of wizards that is behind it.)