only amazing if your playing 1 or several straight black decks
Weretarrasque
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(4 votes)
It's a variable-strength Sea Serpent, basically. I suppose you could sideboard it if you expect to face mono-black...
tavaritz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Weretarrasque: Why are you comparing this to Sea Serpent?
Sea Serpent costs this ; Sea Serpent cannot attack if oppenent doesn't have an island, this has no such restriction; Sea Serpent is from Alpha, this is from The Dark; Sea Serpent is common, this is uncommon and this is white wheras Sea Serpent is blue. So nothing in common.
pedrodyl
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
rabblerabble GET THESE SWAMPS OUTTA HERE rabblerabble
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combos with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth elegantly: both profitably, And efficiently :) A very easy start to a not-so-bad, not-very-aggressive Black White deck! ^_^
tavaritz: 4C translates to 2CC for color-weighted mana costs, so it sits in the same spot on the curve as Sea Serpent... :P Both cards' power and toughness are effected by Basic Land types...the similarities are sort of there? Does Sea Serpent count your Islands or only your opponents?
This is, I THINK, BETTER than a Sea Serpent because it has at least 2 P/T without needing the key Land Type in play, whereas Sea Serpent can be turned into a 0/0 if the lands leave play. By 'variable strength' I think Weretarrasque meant "the P/T changes depending on whose turn it is, leaving you with a Black-hating Sea Serpent on their turn, and at least an over-cost 2/2 on you turn."
EDIT: Went back and looked at Serpent. Wereterrasque, me, and I'm sure a lot of MAGIC players make a weird assumption about Sea Serpent: it's a 5/5 for 5U, and requires Islands in play 'for stuff', so it's EASY to assume it requires 5 Islands in play, simply because for its stats it's hard to imagine anything but a mono-blue deck ever a) getting around to playing it. and b) keeping it in play. I mean the assumption is a False one, but I do believe that's how people think when they try to remember how Sea Serpent works. :P
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tavaritz: 4C translates to 2CC for color-weighted mana costs, so it sits in the same spot on the curve as Sea Serpent... :P Both cards' power and toughness are effected by Basic Land types...the similarities are sort of there? Does Sea Serpent count your Islands or only your opponents?
This is, I THINK, BETTER than a Sea Serpent because it has at least 2 P/T without needing the key Land Type in play, whereas Sea Serpent can be turned into a 0/0 if the lands leave play. By 'variable strength' I think Weretarrasque meant "the P/T changes depending on whose turn it is, leaving you with a Black-hating Sea Serpent on their turn, and at least an over-cost 2/2 on you turn."
EDIT: Went back and looked at Serpent. Wereterrasque, me, and I'm sure a lot of MAGIC players make a weird assumption about Sea Serpent: it's a 5/5 for 5U, and requires Islands in play 'for stuff', so it's EASY to assume it requires 5 Islands in play, simply because for its stats it's hard to imagine anything but a mono-blue deck ever a) getting around to playing it. and b) keeping it in play. I mean the assumption is a False one, but I do believe that's how people think when they try to remember how Sea Serpent works. :P