UL's Card Corner: The Flops

As I've said before, not all cards are created equal.

Today, I'd like to talk about some of those cards.The ones I didn't like, or probably more accurate, I couldn't pilot properly.

If you've been following the Animar deck series over the past few weeks, you know this guy was in there as a way to get haste.

Before that though, Sarkhan was originally part of my bad Intet deck, my slightly more successful Kresh deck, and a few build-and-immediately broken Naya decks.

Believe me when I say I've been trying to make this guy relevant. He's a table favorite, though everyone knows what five 4/4 dragons can do to a table.

Unfortunately, ol' Sarky's never been a game-changer. I've maybe won 1 or 2 games in all the decks he's been in, and I've never wanted to tutor him, or even be happy to draw him.

So after years of testing, I think it's time for him to fly.



Yeah. I'm probably gonna get some funny looks for this one. I know all the combos and all the fun-time people in my playgroup and the internet has to break this card.

So I thought I'd try my own luck, using this card to leverage value in relevant-but-not-so-broken ways. After being in Hidetsugu and a short-lived Rasputin Dreamweaver deck, this card was a hugely disappointing draw. Every time. No joke.

It basically became fodder for Trading Post in HH. It was slow, and really irrelevant unless you had stuff already on the board.

After hearing Grandpa Growth and some of the CommanderCast folks talk highly of this card, I decided to give it a spin, and found it to not be so good.

Sure, Undying makes it good- but the truth is, triggering on attack makes it bad. Without haste, this wolf, to me, at least, like you're gonna get owned.

Drawing it made me feel like I was down a card at any point, and since then, I've increasingly grown to dislike the art for this card. It likes a t-shirt I had when I was 6.






That's it for today. If any of you guys have had success with these and would like to share, always remember there's comment space below.

Remember, when it comes to tech, you're your own pilot.

Only the penitent cards shall pass.

And me. Cause I'm saying Pass.

-UL