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Creativity isn't enough by itself to win games.
The smaller the card pool, the more decks will look like one another. Suppose the only two drop green cards in Standard are Runeclaw Bear and Ashcoat Bear , and there isn't any other creatures or even spells that cost two. That means if you want to play mono-green, those are your only choices. There is no reason whatsoever to use Runeclaw Bear over Ashcoat Bear . None. One is better in any situation over the other.
Netdecks are the result of this on a larger scale. There's few reasons to use Kessig Wolf over Boros Reckoner . Why play Golgari Longlegs in your green deck over Thragtusk ? Etc. etc. There are formats where you can innovate because the card pool is huge (namely: Vintage, Legacy, and Commander). But in newer formats, that's just not the case.
The only real weakness to netdecking is that people have sideboard answers to your deck. However, netdecks are often answers themselves to other netdecks.
Bottom line is a quote from David Sirlin: "Play to win, not do difficult moves."
Skylasher is great, especially against esper control. Can't be countered, blue protection, reach, it may have just been a Nevermore for Delver of Secrets Flip . It's still solid against all blue though, completely outclassing Runeclaw Bear and EVEN... Grizzly Bears !!!!!! :-( ) I also reckon Sire Of Insanity is underrated. It works really well with Blood Scrivener
He can change how the Gorger assigns the damage, so long as he follows the damage assignment order. However, each creature MUST be dealt lethal damage, before the Gorger may deal damage to the next blocker in the damage assignment order.
In your example, before Giant Growth , The Vastwood Gorger may assign it's damage in two ways:
Assign 4 damage to the Serra Angel and 1 damage to Llanowar Elves . (It cannot assign any damage to the Runeclaw Bear
or
Assign 5 damage to the Serra Angel and 0 damage to Llanowar Elves and 0 damage to Runeclaw Bear .
After the Giant Growth has been cast, the Vastwood Gorger must now assign at least 7 damage to Serra Angel in order to assign any damage to Llanowar Elves and Runeclaw Bear .
However as the Gorger only has 5 power, it can only assign 5 damage, and therefore must assign all 5 damage to the Serra Angel .
From wiki.mtg
"If two or more creatures are blocking it, it assigns its combat damage to those creatures according to the damage assignment order announced for it. This may allow the blocked creature to divide its combat damage. However, it can't assign combat damage to a creature that's blocking it unless, when combat damage assignments are complete, each creature that precedes that blocking creature in its order is assigned lethal damage."
The rule 509.2 says that at the declare blocker step, the AP have to announce assignment damage order.
Exemple : Declare blocker stepVastwood Gorger is blocked by Llanowar Elves , Runeclaw Bear , and Serra Angel . Vastwood Gorger s controller announces the Vastwood Gorger s damage assignment order as Serra Angel , then Llanowar Elves , then Runeclaw Bear .
The AP then receive priority and does nothing (rule 509.06).Now the NAP receive priority and cast Giant Growth on Serra Angel .
Combat domage stepRule 510.01 says that the AP announces how each attacking creature assigns its damage (again).Can the AP change it's damage assignment ?Because now he can't kill Serra Angel and he would want to kill the 2 others creatures.
Thanks.
2nd Amendment: The right to arm bears...wait..
Adaptive Automaton, replacing Runeclaw Bear because its the odd one out.
I use to call Runeclaw Bear Henry when I started playing magic.
Ally flicker
Are you sure? I looked it up on Gatherer and the last ruling makes it sound like it doesn't work that way... "Replacement effects that modify creatures of a certain type as they enter the battlefield will apply (or not apply) before you apply Xenograft 's effect. For example, if Warrior is the chosen creature type and you control Bramblewood Paragon , a Runeclaw Bear would not enter the battlefield with an additional +1/+1 counter."
| Power / Toughness | 2/2 |
| Color(s) | G |
| Cost | 1G |
| Converted cost | 2 |
| Avg. draft pick | 8.46 |
| Avg. cube pick | 17.12 |
| Format | Legality |
| Heirloom | Legal |
| Extended | Legal |
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander / EDH | Legal |
| Modern | Legal |
| Pauper | Legal |
| Set | Rarity |
| 2012 Core Set | Common |
| 2011 Core Set | Common |
| 2010 Core Set | Common |
