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Beast of Burden

Multiverse ID: 97058

Beast of Burden

Comments (5)

rubber
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (5 votes)
Um, it's a 6 mana creature, with no protection or evasion or any sort of useful ability. I would rate it 4/5, its current rating, if I thought it would be a 10/10 or so every time I played it. If I expected a 6/6, I might give it a 3/5. However, I don't expect either of those. I expect a creature that is too slow to help me much against aggresive creature decks when it would be large, since it's expensive. I expect a creature that is useless against controlling decks that run few creatures - which is when you'll have time to play it. If you manage some token generation against a control deck, it might be a reasonable size, but in those cases you're probably winning or about to lose to Wrath of God anyway. I acknoledge that it might be decent in limited, but it does not deserve 4/5.
Ace8792
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (4 votes)
Not bad buts its more of a side deck card because you can only play it against a few decks.
KokoshoForPresident
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
It's okay...
blurrymadness
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (3 votes)
It's interesting because unlike most of these Keldon Warlord variants, it's all players. Certainly better in multiplayer, and you'll need equipment or some such.

That said, people need to treat {6} much different when rating compared to {2}{G}{G}{W}{W} or something. Color limits mana production heavily. Similarly {B}{B}{B} is much different than {W}{W}{W}

Urza lands, Locus, Channel, Spoils of Evil, etc.. these are all ways to produce gobs of colorless mana by turn 2-3 (among other things), further: no color weight means you can put this in any color (well duh) meaning that {U} can get an efficient huge beater where it normally might have trouble doing so.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great in multiplayer. For 1v1 I wouldnt run it unless I was playing swarmy, even then I might just leave it in sideboard unless its a mirror match.