[KTK] Ankle Shanker, Rakasha Vizier, & Avalanche Tusker

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[KTK] Ankle Shanker, Rakasha Vizier, & Avalanche Tusker

Postby NerdBoyWonder » Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:05 am

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Looks like there is a 5 drop cycle with Ivorytusk Fortress being among them and more thank likely are the intro pack rares.
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Postby LP, of the Fires » Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:09 am

5 mana legion loyalist is a lot worse then legion loyalist :(
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Postby NerdBoyWonder » Wed Sep 03, 2014 12:31 am

5 mana legion loyalist is a lot worse then legion loyalist :(
True but for limited that guy is going to push through. Could see sideboard play in a Mardu Midrange deck to face creature match ups when board stalls happen. He's no Loyalist though for sure.
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Postby Second Harkius » Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:48 am

All bad. They couldn't even give the Vizier trample?

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Postby Kaitscralt » Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:57 am

And the name so good
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Postby Kaitscralt » Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:57 am

Why are the BUG and RUG cards not uncommon? These rares are so lame.
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Postby Jack » Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:43 am

These actually seem to fit Wizards' new "more complex uncommons" design, but yeah, don't seem special enough to be rare, especially into pack rares.
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Postby Jack » Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:46 am

The rug one doesn't even pass the vanilla test, and Provoke doesn't even nearly make up for that.
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Postby windstrider » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:11 pm

I'm probably looking at this wrong, but I can see instances when Ankle Shanker could be very useful, especially against an opponent's field full of high toughness creatures. If this is going to be a slower Standard environment, then Shanker would basically be a creature-based board wipe if they defend. It turns any 1/1 tokens into little death machines, which would fit the Mardu strategy of hit hard, hit fast.
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Postby Jack » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:22 pm

But it's still a much worse 5-drop than Sarkhan or Stormbreath or even Underworld Cerberus in the same colors.
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Postby GoblinWarchief » Wed Sep 03, 2014 1:29 pm

When they will ever print a good goblin to make the tribe competitive in legacy again ???? Poor little goblins, tortured with 5 drop 3/3 creatures....

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Postby Stardust » Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:55 pm

Ankle Shanker is fun to say at least. Too bad I'll never be saying it in a game...
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Postby Kaitscralt » Wed Sep 03, 2014 2:56 pm

for this game it should have been called cankle shanker
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Postby Jack » Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:26 pm

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Postby Tyrael » Wed Sep 03, 2014 4:40 pm

The Vizier and Tusker need trample so bad
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Postby DerWille » Thu Sep 04, 2014 4:37 am

I wonder how playable the Ankle Biter will be with Rabblemaster in some sort of Mardu aggro deck with a goblin (sub)theme. This guy would basically let you stop worrying about blockers and just swing for the fences each time.

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Postby RaidaTheBlade » Thu Sep 04, 2014 4:57 am

5 cmc is looking like some sort of sweet spot in this set. I'm starting to think there might be a good Mardu midrange deck here
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Postby NerdBoyWonder » Thu Sep 04, 2014 5:29 am

5 cmc is looking like some sort of sweet spot in this set. I'm starting to think there might be a good Mardu midrange deck here
With each card being previewed it appears we may be heading into a midrange standard format.
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Postby Second Harkius » Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:48 am

that Tusker could easily be a common. so bad.

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Postby RaidaTheBlade » Thu Sep 04, 2014 6:49 am

Mardu's got a lot of sweet stuff for something like that.

Rabblemaster and Brimaz as 3-drop army-in-a-can creatures
Zurgo and Stormbreath as 5cmc bombs (Zurgo's not too bad, imo)
Sarkhan, Elspeth, and maybe Sorin and Chandra as powerful walker backup.
Some good removal spells like downfall and the new b/w spell
mardu ascendancy for more overrun and sweeper defense, etc'

And ankle shanker is actually really good in a standard metagame that's lots of midrange creatures. Enables swing-ins that are almost always profitable.


Mana would be icky, but with The 3-color land, confluence, pain lands, and fetch lands, it could be done. I just hate when manabases are twice as expensive as the rest of the deck combined. It's annoying e.e
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Postby windstrider » Thu Sep 04, 2014 5:33 pm

Shanker is a 2/2, according to mothership previews. Seriously?!? For a 5 CMC, rare, multicolored creature that's kinda ridiculous.
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Postby Jack » Fri Sep 05, 2014 1:04 am

Tusker is also a 6/4 (not that it makes the card playable).
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