Growth

Charlie highlighted this as potentially broken. I guess this makes combat *very* hard for your opponent and this'll be why they went with Monstrify the first time around with Retrace rather than a Giant Growth variant. I wonder if we can fix it to not be dominantly good in Limited? Make it only +1/+1 or give it a very high cost?

Thomas Baker · 2012-05-27 20:10:29

Feel the need to reiterate my comment from earlier - this at rare might be alright, but imagine a green deck with 2-3 of these; you can never safely block their guys unless you have a huge p/t advantage on them, and even then they can cast it multiple times in a turn. It also turns lands into damage when you inevitably dont block, makes big combat maths unnecessarily complicated. I feel it might be alright as either +1/+1 or pump its cost up to 4, when it starts taking up pretty much their turn to use and becomes similiar to something like knight of the skyward eyes activated ability, which is balanced

Charlie Grover · 2012-05-29 16:21:41

This reminds me a lot of Narcissism. 2G initially for no benefit (worse) then it's an on-board (similar to in-graveyard) trick for G (better) that gives +2/+2 by discarding any card (better). That said, Narcissism is first-pickable in pack 2 in OTJ draft and is probably strong enough to be said to be a no-fun Limited bomb. Trying at 2G for initial playtesting which makes a lot of difference to how many times you can do this in a turn.

Thomas Baker · 2012-05-30 06:41:15