Dies to Removal

[mana]5UU[/mana]

Creature - Whale

Islandwalk

Whenever Colossal Whale attacks you may exile target creature defending player controls until Colossal Whale leaves the battlefield.

5/5

The art on this is epic, not that Blackhound wants anyone here to see.

I was just thinking we haven't had a big useless overcosted blue sea monster in awhile

The art on this is epic, not that Blackhound wants anyone here to see.

I am a dumbass who does not know how to attach images because I have never bothered to learn.

Random note ,this is only the 4th card with the creature type "Whale" ever printed.

I never took you for such a dumbass.

I did.

It swallows a creature whenever it attacks. Brilliant design on this one. Much more exciting than the 'herp derp' mythics that have been spoiled for the set so far.

Hmm... this templating is different than the Oblivion Ring/Detention Sphere/Angel of Serenity templating... does someone else care enough to figure out the functional difference, if any?

Hmm... this templating is different than the Oblivion Ring/Detention Sphere/Angel of Serenity templating... does someone else care enough to figure out the functional difference, if any?

It ends up working more like Olivia Voldaren's take-control ability than O. Ring's exile. If you killed Whale in response to the ability, you wouldn't even ever exile the creature, must less exile it forever. The reason the O. Ring trick works is because it's 2 different effects, whereas this is just the one.

I would love this if it were . But, alas, it's not. More of the same not-quite-playable dribble I've come to expect from Mythics these days.

Not every card at every rarity can be playable. They have to make cards for every type of player.

Thing is it's not even good in draft. I can imagine they made it Mythic just because having multiples of these running around your average 8-man would be annoying, but is it really much better than most other stompy bombs with evasion, even the uncommon ones?

It will very most likely be good in draft, you crazy boy.

Well, don't mistake me; I take this as my pick just because it's a B in BREAD. I just don't think it's much more than your average Craw Wurm because it can eat other bombs and the occasional wooden boy. I'm seeing a lot of situations where this ends up being non-performing, though: in the optimal situation where you're landing this before the opponent lands their bombs, there's every likelihood they're holding their removal or just play around it until they can answer... there's certainly no way they're walking their valuables into a big friggin' whale mouth, after all. It gains some value if you're trying to find the answer for their bombs, but then they're already in a situation where they've outpaced you for a turn+ and you would be served just as well with anything relatively beefy.

Then again, we've seen so little of the set I'm sure Wizards in
their perversity will do something silly like print a land that gives all your guys Haste for free or some dumb thing like that and I'll be eating my words here in a bit.

unless m14 has power level over 9000 this will be very good in limited

i didn't realize manders won the invitational. congrats!

more like colossal fail amirite?