[ENM] Lupine Prototype
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Fixed the link so it works now, but still can't seem to get it to be an image here, if anyone can fix thanks!
Can this find a home in an affinity type version of MUD? Its really big for its cost, and having no cards should not be a problem in a deck full of 99% Moxen as its mana sources. Or a deck running 100 discard cards. Thoughts?
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I was going to spoil it too. 5/5 for 2 mana seems totally playable in any non-countermagic deck. Affinity totally seems a good deck, but also burn, or any creature deck. For vintage, MUD and bear-deck can afford it.
How viable is a 5/5 that does nothing in the current environment? I'm not sure, but the clock is terrific. With workshops we can have a couple of this T1 and strike for 10 in T2. Not bad at all
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Do you have a link to a Vintage affinity decklist? This is the deck with Signal Pest, Skullclamp, Cranial Plating, etc?
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@evouga here's Brassman's list from a while back:
Andy Probasco - Tiny Robots
4 Ancient Tomb
3 Arcbound Ravager
1 Black Lotus
1 Cranial Plating
4 Genesis Chamber
2 Hangarback Walker
4 Lodestone Golem
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
4 Memnite
3 Mental Misstep
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Sapphire
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Signal Pest
4 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Stripmine
4 Tangle Wire
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
SB
3 Grafdigger's Cage
4 Leyline of Sanctity
3 Thorn of Amestyst
3 Tormod's Crypt
1 Trinishpere
1 Umezawa's Jitte -
Link didn't work:
Lupine Prototype
2 generic mana cost
Artifact Creature - Wolf Construct
Lupine Prototype can't attack or block unless a player has no cards in hand.
P/T: 5/5
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@structuremole Thanks! Looking at this list, the cards most likely to get stuck in hand are Mental Misstep and Tangle Wire. Presumably the Missteps could be cut without much loss.
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@evouga I think the missteps are actually necessary for combo matchups as you don't have as many spheres, but that probably works in the sideboard.
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@ydl "2C" is a very confusing way to write a mana cost now that "C" is a kind of mana
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@Brass-Man Thank you, I was sloppy there.
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I'm not clear on whether or not the 5/5 is good in Tiny Robots, but I think you can absolutely get away with cutting the Missteps. No issue there
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@Brass-Man It seems like if it were 4/4 or 3/3 it would fit better in Tiny Robots.
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@Brass-Man said:
I'm not clear on whether or not the 5/5 is good in Tiny Robots, but I think you can absolutely get away with cutting the Missteps. No issue there
You have to cut something to get this in. Might as well be the missteps.
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this looks really good with an affinity deck that just wants to dump its hand turn one or two
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I'd rather find a way to play Myr Superion (DER UBERMYR) than this guy.
Look at how many hellbent cards actually see play in Vintage. I think Radkos Pit-Dragon or whatever saw play, what, in Red Deck Wins in 2008?
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A card for 2 mana (totally playable in a deck that wants to spit the whole hand ASAP) cannot be compared with a card that costs 2RR, much harder to cast. Same for Jagged Poppet (I have seen it play in vintage). And this is a 5/5, way harder to kill.
Affinity seems the natural home, but even aggro mud can play it.
