Good in Ravnica block, because of the huge quantity of saproling tokens, but nowadays its a tad overcosted for a creature that makes you sacrifice a dude when he enters the battlefield. Besides, most tokens used in formats where this is allowed are faeries, elves, goblins, merfolk, or even thopters.
rubber
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(4 votes)
A tad overcosted nowadays? When has a 5/5 for 6 with a painful negative ability and no significant positive abilities been anywhere near good? Why does this have a 3 star rating? The CIP sac effect is supposed to be a balancer for otherwise overpowered creatures. Actually, none of the cards with that effect are good. Anyway, this wouldn't be worth 6 without it's neg. ability.
I don't understand the flavor of "can't be blocked by saprolings." Are plants scared of screaming townsfolk?
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
cmon, its worth the lol upon first seeing it. I mean, who would even SB this against saps?
Ameisenmeister
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Maybe it's better that not all cards are on the same level power as Visara but I agree that Vindictive Mob is crap. Overcosted for what it does and protection from Saprolings isn't very useful (personally I like to get rid of creatures via Deathspore Thallid). And why this card is an uncommon is also very stupid.
Test-Subject_217601
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Perhaps a prototype for Champion?
justicarphaeton
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
Its last ability makes me laugh, out of the sheer flavour randomness
NARFNra
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Presumably the guys stampede over them or something. I mean, most Saprolings are maybe a turn or two old, nothing that a really determined mob can't get over.
Yo dawg, I heard you had foilage problems so I gave your mob protection from foilage.
metalevolence
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
why does this exist
Radagast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I had to do a double take when I first saw one of these lying around... Let's see... A 5/5 for 4BB. Okay, it had better be useful. Sac a creature when it comes into play... Oh, boy... this thing had better have some amazing abilities! Can't be blocked by Saprolings... HUH?!?!?! Shouldn't it have Fear or something to justify the name and the absurd cost?!
I have no idea what they were on when they made this card? A 5/5 for 4BB that can't be blocked by Saprolings is basically a Craw Wurm - why does it need to sac a creature, too? And who cares about Saprolings? And isn't a 5/5 large enough to handle Saprolings that are almost always 1/1's? And how does this card make any sense at all? Plants fleeing the angry mob? A mob that wants to hunt down plants? Huh?!
HairlessThoctar
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
This card is too damn weird for me NOT to like.
13KmSpaceRock
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
You have to sac a creature because someone gets trampled in the chaos and saprolings cant block cause you just burn them down with torches. this card makes perfect sense to me. lol
Eiric
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I dont know exactly why people are ripping on this card THAT much... i mean yes ravnica, but also the card is black.... and black means golgari, who revolved around having yourself sacrifice creatures. But hey, dont get me wrong, still kinda useless outside of ravnica
Tiggurix
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
A little more interesting now with Innistrad and its Village Cannibals. Hopefully Dark Ascension will introduce even more synergistic cards.
brunsbr103
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Magic kinda needs bad cards though... it adds an element of luck and skill to formats like draft and sealed, and balances he game
for example, if i'm running a nice green and black deck in a ravnica draft, and if this is one of the best black cards left that i need to make a complete deck, then i'll use it. Especially if i have some good dredge cards and no big things, this is going in, and maybe my opponent won't chump block with saprolings all day long because of it.
LordRandomness
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
... ... ...the hell?
Trygon_Predator
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I guess they needed a card to rein in Selesnya/Golgari saproling decks? Oh Vindictive Mob, you so silly.
psychichobo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That is a MASSIVE human, though.
Vogie
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
This card is a really interesting one if you look at it with a Vorthosian perspective. The planeswalker needs to create a Mob... so they kill someone. They point the blame to some Druids, the Selesnya or the Golgari (or any saproling-using group). They're vindicitive, they're vengeful, they're not going to be deterred by the cheap chumps plants.
... Little do they know, they're just not attacking the right people.
This card is very, very black, and makes a whole lot more sense once you get over the fact that you'll probably never use it outside of sealed/draft
It's "Trinket Text". Normally, I'd say Trinket Text shouldn't cost mana. Here's the catch though:
This is a Black Card that is a sacrifice outlet. As unintuitive as it is at first, we have come a long way with this little game of ours, and it is CORRECT that sacrifice outlets should be charged a mana-premium. :P should this be both uncommon And 6 mana? ...na, I'd be ok with uncommon and 5 mana, or common and 6 mana.
it could have Trample.
this card is either underdeveloped or overdeveloped, but if you add the line 'When Craw Wurm ETB, sac a creature" to a Craw Wurm, then Paint it Black, you have made a Better Craw Wurm. Not Strictly Better, but better.
Green can pretend that sacrificing a creature to play a creature is a downside. Black cannot. That's my opinion.
It's a 5/5 because it represents 5 1/1 human tokens banded together probably. Hey look, they fixed banding!
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is so stupid lol who the hell came up with these abilties?
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the narrowest abilities ever.
TPmanW
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I can only assume that saprolings were a big problem in limited testing.
RidderLugtepik
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It can't be blocked by Saprolings! What an ability!!
Combo's with Conspiracy to make all the things saprolings, save that, its kind of a crappy ability, but hoses old selensya like a champion... well, sorta...
Comments (27)
Example of what a 5/5 for 6 should be: Visara the Dreadful
I mean, who would even SB this against saps?
And why this card is an uncommon is also very stupid.
Then again, they can block Krosan Cloudscrapers...
I have no idea what they were on when they made this card? A 5/5 for 4BB that can't be blocked by Saprolings is basically a Craw Wurm - why does it need to sac a creature, too? And who cares about Saprolings? And isn't a 5/5 large enough to handle Saprolings that are almost always 1/1's? And how does this card make any sense at all? Plants fleeing the angry mob? A mob that wants to hunt down plants? Huh?!
for example, if i'm running a nice green and black deck in a ravnica draft, and if this is one of the best black cards left that i need to make a complete deck, then i'll use it. Especially if i have some good dredge cards and no big things, this is going in, and maybe my opponent won't chump block with saprolings all day long because of it.
...
...the hell?
... Little do they know, they're just not attacking the right people.
This card is very, very black, and makes a whole lot more sense once you get over the fact that you'll probably never use it outside of sealed/draft
It's "Trinket Text". Normally, I'd say Trinket Text shouldn't cost mana. Here's the catch though:
This is a Black Card that is a sacrifice outlet. As unintuitive as it is at first, we have come a long way with this little game of ours, and it is CORRECT that sacrifice outlets should be charged a mana-premium. :P should this be both uncommon And 6 mana? ...na, I'd be ok with uncommon and 5 mana, or common and 6 mana.
it could have Trample.
this card is either underdeveloped or overdeveloped, but if you add the line 'When Craw Wurm ETB, sac a creature" to a Craw Wurm, then Paint it Black, you have made a Better Craw Wurm. Not Strictly Better, but better.
Green can pretend that sacrificing a creature to play a creature is a downside. Black cannot. That's my opinion.
It's a 5/5 because it represents 5 1/1 human tokens banded together probably. Hey look, they fixed banding!
1.5/5 Stars