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I've always had a deck that was famous for being able to drop a Craw Wyrm (4GG) 6/4 in turn 3. Later, the Yavimaya Wyrm (4GG) 6/4 Trample meant I had to replace
by mcv 4y ago
I've always had a deck that was famous for being able to drop a Craw Wyrm (4GG) 6/4 in turn 3. Later, the Yavimaya Wyrm (4GG) 6/4 Trample meant I had to replace that iconic card. Much more recently, I bought my son a box with cards, and his deck has an Aggressive Mammoth (3GGG) 6/6 Trample but gives all your other creatures trample too!
Modern creatures are just so much better than anything we had back then. But my red/blue direct damage deck is suddenly unfair with its lightning bolts and cheap counterspells.
- aidenn0 4y agoBig creatures were overpriced in the beginning. Most of the creatures that cost more than 3 in Legends were underpowered
- gpderetta 4y agoTrue. Some cheap old creatures still see a lot of play: birds, elves, the merfolk lords for example.
- masklinn 4y agoThey mostly see it in tribal or for mana or oddball abilities though. Old magic really over-estimated stats and combat abilities, you’d get heavy downsides on anything even passing the vanilla test (cf mogg jailer or mogg squad), especially out of color. And under-estimated fast mana and card draw.
- mcv 4y agoThey were in a slow deck, but my big green deck could get them on the table fast enough to win. I think it was mostly the 3/3 creatures for 4 mana that were a poor deal. But it's not like in the 1990s nobody used creatures, or spell-focused decks always won, but I guess the recent changes do give creatures the more central role they were always meant to have.
- aidenn0 4y agoYeah, the big-creature decks I recall that didn't suck from that era were green. Black had great mana advantage too, but Mind-twist and Hymn were both better ways to spend it.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoYou want to see broken old stuff? Anything involving mana: https://scryfall.com/search?q=mana https://scryfall.com/search?q=mana