Pointed Discussion

I love the little girl in front of the big smashy thing.

Will most often provide a great body in a multiplayer game, yet lacks trample.
I also prefer a Stag Beetle for green decks.
Aside from that, there are many more reliable fatties out there.

Great in token generating decks.

haha bob has a much higher rating then i expected if there ever was a noob card bob is it every noob ive seen thats seen it for the first time is like wow that rules as i just shake my head

reeeeeely good in my token deck. although the art is kind of weird.

@lickthemoose: Here, let me make that understandable for you.

Haha. Bob has a much higher rating than I expected. If there ever was a noob card, bob is it. Every noob I've seen, that has seen it for the first time, is like "wow that rules!" as I just shake my head.

Punctuation is your friend.

@powerdude:
The art looks odd for several reasons. One is that the little girl/woman could be farther in the background than the golem, in the foreground, or on the same plane. It can't be deremined because there is no overlap/distort effects. So that's kind of uncomfortable to the eye. Secondly, they're just standing around in some cloudly limbo. There's no motion, no dynamic camera angles. We're just looking at two figures in a boring, side-on view, standing nowhere in particular. Finally, assuming the ground is at the point where the woman/girl's feet should be (probably around the bottom of the creature type bar, if the art were extended), and they are, in fact, on the same visual ground (that is, she isn't farther away/closer to the camera than the golem), then the golem's legs are very short, and his arms are very long. That wouldn't make him very good at carrying things. Balance, and all.

There's my irrelevant rant about flawed art, now my actual point:

How, exactly, does the mechanics of having more creatures flavourfully link up with having a bigger golem? He...gets to carry more of their stuff?

Needs trample. Until that happens, this will never be MY beast of burden.

@DoctorKenneth

My best idea is this:

The more he carries, the more stuff he has to block attacks. This also gives him more stuff to swing around. As such, he gets more every time someone enters the battlefield.

@DoctorKenneth: definitely agree; this isn't chippy's best artwork. i understand that the original beast of burden was from the first thematic block ever, but the least he could've done was draw elements pertaining to the relevance of its own timeline! the girl is oddly misplaced despite the intentions of dramatic contrast. the whole composition is as plain and static as most alpha artworks... today's cards are much more interesting artistically

Well, it's Altar Golem for one less mana but it lacks trample but at the same time, it doesn't have to deal with a clunky "does not untap" thing.

Although the latter can be worked around...


This beast becomes more of a burden than anything else really.

Just too high a casting cost. Better targets for Zombify out there(If reanimate is how you get around high cost, which is what i always do). Add that hes an artifact and a creature which means shatter is just as good as any kill spell. Beast of Meh should be his name.

rolling stones

I don't want my pizza burnin'!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERXq3r1Kq0Q

Possible sideboard against swarm decks. For 6 mana, should have trample.

just an expensive crusader of odric

@Hartes it applies to ALL creatures not just yours.