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Sylvan Yeti

Multiverse ID: 6635

Sylvan Yeti

Comments (5)

Moosecadet
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
Yeti? I think guy in a gorilla suit.
Crabotage
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
Interesting, Maro with toughness fixed at 4.
Kurraga
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (2 votes)
I don't understand the logic behind this card. The whole point of portal is to make simple cards, this card is significantly more complicated that simple Maro. P&T are * is easy, P is * and T is 4 is a lot harder to think about. Not that this card is complicated at all, it could just be simpler.
LordOfTheFlies87
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Fire this artist.
Mode
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Another interesting thing other than Sylvan Yeti's similarities with Maro is his creature type development:
-Starter 1999: Elemental
-Portal Second Age: Beast
-Oracle: Yeti

I wonder if it started as an Elemental because it was based on Maro:
Maybe during development, it just had some codename and started as an elemental, and then happened to become a Sylvan Yeti, leaving the creature type unfitting.
(If that is even possible; both Starter and Classic: Sixth Edition (Maro's earliest print) are from 1999, and i'm not sure which of those sets came first.)