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      Serracollector last edited by Serracollector

      ![http://www.magicspoiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Lupine-Prototype-MTGEMN.png](image url)

      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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      • xouman
        xouman last edited by

        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

        "Eron would be much less of a hassle if only he were mortal."
        -Reyhan, Samite alchemist

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          evouga last edited by

          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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            structuremole @evouga last edited by

            @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

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            • ydl
              ydl TMD Supporter last edited by ydl

              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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                evouga @structuremole last edited by

                @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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                  structuremole @evouga last edited by

                  @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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                    Brass Man @ydl last edited by

                    @ydl "2C" is a very confusing way to write a mana cost now that "C" is a kind of mana

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                      ydl TMD Supporter @Brass Man last edited by

                      @Brass-Man Thank you, I was sloppy there.

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                      • Brass Man
                        Brass Man last edited by

                        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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                          Topical_Island @Brass Man last edited by

                          @Brass-Man It seems like if it were 4/4 or 3/3 it would fit better in Tiny Robots.

                          Brian Kelly Freudian self-analysis of the day:
                          I like to express the id that a player would feel without the superego of being like, "oh you have to be nice."

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                            Khahan @Brass Man last edited by

                            @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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                              letseeker last edited by

                              this looks really good with an affinity deck that just wants to dump its hand turn one or two

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                                MaximumCDawg last edited by

                                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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                                • xouman
                                  xouman last edited by

                                  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.

                                  "Eron would be much less of a hassle if only he were mortal."
                                  -Reyhan, Samite alchemist

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