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Symbiotic Beast

Multiverse ID: 39924

Symbiotic Beast

Comments (6)

ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Classic card, classic ability (like a variant of Penumbra creatures) and classic flavour text. I use "Spiffy" in my day-to-day conversations whenever possible, and this is most of why. 4.5/5
KikiJikiTiki
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Upgraded to Mitotic Slime
Polychromatic
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (5 votes)
Might I say, your hair is lov- OH MY GOD GET IT OFF KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE
Dr.Pingas
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Hmm.
Symbiotic Elf, Symbiotic Beast, Symbiotic Wurm.
Penumbra Bobcat, Penumbra Kavu, Penumbra Wurm.

I love me some old-fashioned Wurm death-tokens. Makes me wonder why they didn't make a three-card cycle for Wurmcoil Engine.
RunedServitor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Cool in a Devour Deck.
Aremath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Dr. Pingas: I WONDER WHY? 2/2 wurmcoil engine for 4 at common seems perfectly reasonable to me.

in case you couldn't tell that was sarcasm up there. They would have all been 'cool' cards, but also madly overpowered.

I have nostalgia for this card, and I think that the effect is extremely cool. Yes, Mitotic Slime is generally better, but I'm a fan of putting these cool and interesting abilities on an uncommon, and as such this seems fairly well-costed.

Great if you have a way to recur it.