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On storm crow: It's a meme, but how sad that they left out the flavour text on the secret lair.
The internet claims it's a joke about all blue cards being good because of Force of Will, but my understanding of it is from 8th edition. For some reason, wizards decided that core set required Storm Crow|8ed and Sea Eagle, which is as the saying goes "strictly worse than storm crow".DirkGently wrote: ↑3 years agoJoking aside, why IS storm crow such a meme? I remember dreadmaw became a meme because it got reprinted in like 3 back-to-back sets, but why storm crow? Obviously it's pretty bad, but it's not THAT bad, certainly not bad enough to get a reputation on that alone, a la squire or chimney imp. A 1/3 flyer for 2 is still a decent draft card even in new sets, and that's just 1 extra toughness. It got reprinted a decent amount, but there's probably dozens or even hundreds of cards that have been reprinted more, and it never got printed closely together like dreadmaw. What's so special about storm crow? Why did it become such a thing?
There is a couple of things:DirkGently wrote: ↑3 years agoJoking aside, why IS storm crow such a meme? I remember dreadmaw became a meme because it got reprinted in like 3 back-to-back sets, but why storm crow? Obviously it's pretty bad, but it's not THAT bad, certainly not bad enough to get a reputation on that alone, a la squire or chimney imp. A 1/3 flyer for 2 is still a decent draft card even in new sets, and that's just 1 extra toughness. It got reprinted a decent amount, but there's probably dozens or even hundreds of cards that have been reprinted more, and it never got printed closely together like dreadmaw. What's so special about storm crow? Why did it become such a thing?
Speaking of Chimney Imp, there used to be a store near me that had a Chimney Imp in one of those super protectors they usually put black lotus in, on sale for $900.DirkGently wrote: ↑3 years agoJoking aside, why IS storm crow such a meme? I remember dreadmaw became a meme because it got reprinted in like 3 back-to-back sets, but why storm crow? Obviously it's pretty bad, but it's not THAT bad, certainly not bad enough to get a reputation on that alone, a la squire or chimney imp. A 1/3 flyer for 2 is still a decent draft card even in new sets, and that's just 1 extra toughness. It got reprinted a decent amount, but there's probably dozens or even hundreds of cards that have been reprinted more, and it never got printed closely together like dreadmaw. What's so special about storm crow? Why did it become such a thing?
Chimney Imp is straight oppressive in Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker. You can hardlock the table with a sac outlet if no one has an answer.onering wrote: ↑3 years agoSpeaking of Chimney Imp, there used to be a store near me that had a Chimney Imp in one of those super protectors they usually put black lotus in, on sale for $900.DirkGently wrote: ↑3 years agoJoking aside, why IS storm crow such a meme? I remember dreadmaw became a meme because it got reprinted in like 3 back-to-back sets, but why storm crow? Obviously it's pretty bad, but it's not THAT bad, certainly not bad enough to get a reputation on that alone, a la squire or chimney imp. A 1/3 flyer for 2 is still a decent draft card even in new sets, and that's just 1 extra toughness. It got reprinted a decent amount, but there's probably dozens or even hundreds of cards that have been reprinted more, and it never got printed closely together like dreadmaw. What's so special about storm crow? Why did it become such a thing?
Personally, I've had Chimney Imp countered before. It was in a deck built around top of the library effects and recursions, with the goal being to erase the opponent's hand and board to the top of their library and then beating face with Chimney Imp and Chittering Rats, etc.
I might not call that a dinosaur tribal deck given, oh, Ixalan block, but it is a good goof.illakunsaa wrote: ↑3 years agoI've been playing a dinosaur tribal helmed by Derevi
https://deckstats.net/decks/88154/16573 ... aur-tribal
I don't know specifically about the "meme" part, but if you were playing during Alliances you know how certain commons were more "common" than others (because they had more than one common slot for the different artwork). Anybody who bought any significant amount of Alliances sealed product invariably had more Storm Crows than they could give away (among a handful of other alliances super-commons - <cough> Swamp Mosquito <cough>).DirkGently wrote: ↑3 years agoJoking aside, why IS storm crow such a meme? I remember dreadmaw became a meme because it got reprinted in like 3 back-to-back sets, but why storm crow? Obviously it's pretty bad, but it's not THAT bad, certainly not bad enough to get a reputation on that alone, a la squire or chimney imp. A 1/3 flyer for 2 is still a decent draft card even in new sets, and that's just 1 extra toughness. It got reprinted a decent amount, but there's probably dozens or even hundreds of cards that have been reprinted more, and it never got printed closely together like dreadmaw. What's so special about storm crow? Why did it become such a thing?
Wouldn't that be Bolasi? Boli?
Bolognese should be the only acceptable answer to this,
Unlike most ETB creatures it often is an actual 2-for-1, because the Deathtouch keyword is really, really good. Much of the time a card like say, Reclamation Sage will land and then sit there doin nothing (outside of a blink/reanimation strat). Slime does work the entire time it's on the board discouraging attacks. In my experience it behaves a bit like Ghostly Prison at making you the less profitable attack.
Deathtouch.