Pointed Discussion

Now a horse.

@A3Kitsune: Yes, providing your quirky player with more fuel for the humiliating-to-lose-to Horse deck!

A sub-par card, but I might be biased, since a bad one kicked me in the head.

Very poor card. Poor art and creature type. Why did WoC print this? 1/5

I like to think of the lifegain as a planeswalker cutting the tarpan open and sheltering inside it for warmth.

A 1/1 for one is never a bad deal unless it actively kills you.

Essence Warden.

But it got a TILE SIDEWALK!

Infinite combo with Enduring Renewal, Tangleroot, and anything that sends it to your graveyard, such as Engineered Plague set to Horse. (Or a re-usable sacrifice outlet, like Dimir House Guard).

Sun Quan, Lord of Wu

YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE HORSES

The most sadly hilarious thing about this card is that the flavor is so completely wrong.

The only things that actually distinguish a tarpan as a tarpan are the fact that it was gray with a black mane and tail and that it was never domesticated.

So, the art is entirely incorrect and the flavor text is way off-base too. It's kind of surprising because I would think that whoever had enough niche equestrian knowledge to even come up with the idea of a tarpan card would also have known that a tarpan is just a horse species which was never domesticated.

I guess the mechanic represents you eating it?

Not a bad 1 drop. Makes a decent chump blocker, and I'm sure if someone really tried, it's ability could be easily abused in one way or another.

Whenever there are bad horse cards to be illustrated, Margaret Organ-Kean will be there...

What's with the General Jarkeld guy and horses?

Gain 1 life, sure, but does it bone?