Pointed Discussion

Well of course its endangered, it has to rely on other big creatures to keep it alive. We live in a survival of the fittest world and this clunky creature won't make if always has to rely on one of its allies.

This works fine in a deck that ramps up using land fetch spells and wall of roots / vine trellis type defenders. In that kind of deck you start at a 4/5 for 4 on turn 3 and follow with efficiently costed 5 and 6 drops in the following turns.

One thing to watch out for is that this guy dies to something like a last gasp

I like this card but for a 4/5 with that much of a drawback isn't great. It would've made sense to make this card a instead

Personally i dont think its a very good card due to its ability.

You should know what I think about non-trampling elephants.

isnt there an error in the flavour text? surely it should be Its doom IS to be remembered

So this elephant gets automatically eaten by Grizzly Bears? What a wimp.

Was probably better back in the day, and decent in limited, especially since it was a common.

Something of a Erhnam Djinn variant with a slightly more difficult casting cost. It's an interesting take on creature dependency that came back in the somewhat mechanically similar Emperor Crocodile. I like how in this case, it's little guys (humans, bears, etc) that kill it.

Keep in mind that at the time, there were not a lot of non burn spells that could singlehandedly kill a creature with 5 toughness. Perhaps these creatures were designed with such a serious drawback for that very reason.

Considering you can get 1-drop greens with 3 toughness, this wouldn't be *that* difficult to "build around" without really building around it. It is lame that something else getting disfigured kills it though.

Actually, even if the creature would be reduced to 0 or less toughness (say, last-gasp on a skyshroud ridgeback) this guy would die as it would trigger on the state-based effect checking that kills the beast.

So yeah.. nm he sucks.

If you lower it to 2 toughness, it will hunt itself to extinction. Wrap your head around that one.