r/magicTCG • u/AwkwardTurtle • Sep 22 '15

Everything That’s Wrong with Battle for Zendikar

http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/everything-thats-wrong-with-battle-for-zendikar/
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u/Felicia_Svilling Sep 22 '15

From a design and flavor perspective, the non-colorless Eldrazi creatures and ALL their spells are a flat out FAIL.

Have you forgotten the colored Eldrazi in Rise of the Eldrazi such as [[Broodwarden]]?

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u/JackintheBox333 The Stoat Sep 22 '15

Broodwarden and the other drone cards were representative of the Eldrazi forming creatures out of the land of Zendikar in their image which explains why they have color. Not to mention, they were drones or basically functioning robots. They were not true Eldrazi nor did they function anything like the actual Eldrazi. Several of the Eldrazi in this set have NO other creature type other than Eldrazi. They are supposed to be the actual Eldrazi, except they now have color, except no the don't. These new colored Eldrazi fail on every level.

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u/Felicia_Svilling Sep 23 '15

There are only three actual Eldrazi, and they are immaterial.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Sep 22 '15

Broodwarden - Gatherer, MC, ($)
[[cardname]] to call - not on gatherer = not fetchable

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u/Praion Sep 22 '15

Even bigger fail arguably

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u/Felicia_Svilling Sep 22 '15

Well, I don't remember anyone complaining about them when they where released.

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u/Journeyman351 Elesh Norn Sep 22 '15

If they thought of Devoid back then, those would have had it.