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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 11:40AM
#41
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 12:25PM
#42
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I may replace Devil's Play  with this in my Jund midrange... The repeatability of Devil's Play is a good game finisher though.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 1:01PM
#43
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Can be brought back with Revive. This will be a shoe-in for my Gruul Control deck.
Favorite set: Arabian Nights Favorite planeswalker: Taysir, the One Made of Five Favorite book cycle: Ice Age Favorite creature type(s): Elephant (W), Minotaur (R), Shade (B), Spider (G), Cephalid (U) Myr (Artifact) Standard: Gruul Control Modern: American Human Tempo; Zombie Tribal EDH: Aboshan, Cephalid EmperorCube: The Moons of Mirrodin
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 1:09PM
#44
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Nov 18, 2004
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It's WORSE than Comet Storm  and even Fireball  BECAUSE it's also Green. As noted above, it is this way to justify being Green. There is no reason Red fireballs cannot hit creatures with flying, and indeed the only conflict is where you have Earthquake  vs. Hurricane  when it comes to fliers, and this is not a sweeper in that sense. Nothing about this card screams Green, or even suggests it, to the exclusion of being Gruul.
Branching Bolt  .
You missed the point of my statement. MonoRed covers all the bases when it comes to design here. There is no reason in recent design that red should be restricted to nonfliers, and indeed as previous compared cards have shown, is especially not the case. Green's recent (as of the last three blocks or so) flier hate has revolved around destroying the things outright.
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"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion Backs)
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 1:48PM
#45
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It's WORSE than Comet Storm and even Fireball BECAUSE it's also Green. As noted above, it is this way to justify being Green. There is no reason Red fireballs cannot hit creatures with flying, and indeed the only conflict is where you have Earthquake vs. Hurricane when it comes to fliers, and this is not a sweeper in that sense. Nothing about this card screams Green, or even suggests it, to the exclusion of being Gruul.
Branching Bolt .
You missed the point of my statement. MonoRed covers all the bases when it comes to design here. There is no reason in recent design that red should be restricted to nonfliers, and indeed as previous compared cards have shown, is especially not the case. Green's recent (as of the last three blocks or so) flier hate has revolved around destroying the things outright.
Your own example of Earthquake disagrees, as does the M13 Magmaquake  . Red can usually hit flying, but when it does get limitations, it's a limitation on flying creatures. And the way that Branching Bolt and this card are designed are to specifically hit flying creatures, along with other creatures. That's the green flavor. If this was a mono red card, it would say, 'X -Deal X damage to target opponent and a target creature that opponent controls.' The green flavor is hitting the opponent, a non-flier and a flier.
Favorite set: Arabian Nights Favorite planeswalker: Taysir, the One Made of Five Favorite book cycle: Ice Age Favorite creature type(s): Elephant (W), Minotaur (R), Shade (B), Spider (G), Cephalid (U) Myr (Artifact) Standard: Gruul Control Modern: American Human Tempo; Zombie Tribal EDH: Aboshan, Cephalid EmperorCube: The Moons of Mirrodin
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 1:49PM
#46
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There is no reason in recent design that red should be restricted to nonfliers
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 2:13PM
#47
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Date Joined:
May 12, 2010
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Great card, good to see some nice rares like this.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 2:48PM
#48
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Date Joined:
Sep 28, 2007
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A nice Savage Twister  upgrade
More of a "side"grade. They have the same purpose (kill stuff) but one if burn and one is a sweeper.
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Legendary Creature - Boar Knight Zombie
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5 months ago ::
Jan 02, 2013 - 4:53PM
#49
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Date Joined:
Dec 17, 2010
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There is no reason in recent design that red should be restricted to nonfliers
Street Spasm
Rolling Temblor  too, basically any Earthquake spin-off.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 03, 2013 - 3:59PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 12, 2010
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This could be monored. That said, I can see uses for this with Stuffy Doll  and Spiteful Shadows  .
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