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Pentavus

Multiverse ID: 46703

Pentavus

Comments (15)

MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0) (9 votes)
Amazing Art And A Very Strong Creature Has Alot Of Utility And Alot Of Synergy With Many Cards
Zyant
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Even better than Mycoloth when paired with Doubling season
Turn 1 that you play Pentavus - 10 counters
turn 2 - remove 10 counters and 20 pentavites spawn
rinse and repeat
@go
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0) (3 votes)
woot
Wusanderz
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Zyant, not really. Mycoloth doesn't require you to pay mana to get your saps out, but if you want those 20 pentavites, you're going to need 10 mana.
BrilliantIdiot
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Beautiful art and a great effect with doubling season, if you don't tlike the cost feel free to run tetravus and wait, as for me, I'l tap my cloudposts proudly and when I run out feed the scraps to arcbound ravager or mycoloth

If i get this guy out, then everyone in an 8 way chaos has ot team up on me to have hope of getting him out of the way, and then they get screwed over by his after effects.

5/5, I'd rather give a vital organ than a copy of this card.
Gwafa_Hazid
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
It's better when paired with Doubling Season if you also bring out a Krark-Clan Ironworks. Also abusable with Blade of the Bloodchief, considering you sacrifice the tokens to put them back on the Pentavus, even without the Vampire creature type.
Exuberance
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Even better than Mycoloth when paired with Doubling season
Turn 1 that you play Pentavus - 10 counters
turn 2 - remove 10 counters and 20 pentavites spawn
rinse and repeat
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Or, you know, you could remove five counters for ten Pentavites, sac five Pentavites for ten counters, and you've got 10 1/1s and a 15/15. And that's just ONE Doubling Season.
cdela12345
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I hate playing against this card, it's so ridiculously annoying. 5/5
Xylek
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@Zyant and Exuberance:
He comes into play with the counters already on him, therefore Doubling Season won't effect the initial amount on him. He can only start with 5.
ClockworkSwordfish
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
A 5/5 for 7? Not so good.
5 1/1 fliers for 7? Still not so great.
BUT, if you have any kind of CIP/ETB or PIG/LTB triggers out (Disciple of the Vault or Arcbound Crusher anyone?) this guy becomes an engine of destruction very quickly.
gos
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@Xylek:

Ruling from Doubling Season:

Doubling Season affects cards that "enter the battlefield with" a certain number of counters. Triskelion, for example, would enter the battlefield with six +1/+1 counters on it rather than three.
Concerned_Bystander
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
With proliferate truly his time has come.
JRE47
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
With proliferate truly his time has come.

Apparently Wizards agrees. Pentavus is being reprinted in M12.
Tynansdtm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Xylek: If you took three seconds to click on Doubling Season and look at its rulings, you'd know how wrong you are.
Quantumbiologist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If I didn't know any better I could almost swear that they based Ghave, Guru of Spores on this card, or perhaps the mechanics are just identical by chance.