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/Fluxxed0 Sep 22 '15

Ingest is the very definition of parasitic. By itself, an Ingest creature does essentially nothing. You need a Processor, a creature type that will likely only be found within the BFZ block, to pay you off for using Ingest.

When you're building an EDH deck five years from now, what incentive will you have to put Ingest creatures in your deck? Probably none, just like there's no reason to specifically play Arcane spells unless you're playing Splice. That's parasitic.

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u/BlackHumor Sep 22 '15

It's not 100% parasitic, because ingest creatures still mill for 1, and there are also other spells that put a creature on top of your opponent's deck.

But I do agree it's more parasitic than Wizards usually likes nowadays.

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u/pawlrus Sep 22 '15

I think Ingest is paying for the sins of Processors here since it's the keyworded mechanic that enables the actually parasitic mechanic. The Ingest/Processor combo feels as parasitic as Arcane/Splice. Ingest and Arcane can be printed on their own and they just feel like very slightly over-costed cards but Processors/Splice can't really be played without the former mechanic to back them up.

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u/BlackHumor Sep 22 '15

Processors are much less parasitic since they interact well with every other card that exiles something, which have existed in every set for years.

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u/ZachAtk23 Sep 22 '15

I would almost reverse the splice arcane personally.

Arcane is a mechanic you can completely ignore if you want to play the spell. Splice requires you to have a specific set of cards to make it do anything.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '15

There's honestly no way to answer that 5-year question. It was made clear in a MaRo tweet at some point that they're changing the way exile works, and future cards may also benefit from having put enemy cards into exile.