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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Brass Man
Arabian Nights, 3rd & 4th Ed.
Pojo's Average
Rating -
Constructed:
1.78 (8 Reviews)
Limited: 1.70 (7 Reviews)
Reviewed March 21, 2002
Ratings are
based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst. 3 ...
average.
5 is the highest rating
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Fletcher
Peatross
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Ahh Brass Man.
I remember way back in the day when I first
learned how to play, and there was no Apprentice,
no websites for me to go look at, nothing but my
brother's puny collection of cards. Brass Man was
still bad. Old School rating 1. New school, 1. |
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Mason
Peatross |
Um.
Yeah. Has anyone really ever seriously played
this guy? When was he legal last, the Carter
Administration?
Limited
Rating: 2
Constructed
Rating: 2
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Rob
Lawing
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Brass Man
It was so many
years, painkillers and sets ago...I barely
remember this guy. He is a 1/3 for 1 that
doesn't untap unless you pay 1, not so
great. . He was certainly not used in many
matches I played. In limited which we didn't
know much about back then I guess he would be a
semi-passable wall.
Ratings
Constructed- 1(He's
no grey ogre)
Limited- 2 (Playable
but what's the point)
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DeQuan
Watson
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Ok, this one I am not
going to spend a lot of time on. In the
beginning, we played with him a little bit. Then
something happened....
...We learned how to play well and what good cards
were.
Even in draft, I would probably only draf tthis
guy if I was in dire need of more bodies or if
everything else in the pack was on par with Warp
Artifact.
Constructed: 1.3
Limited: 1.3
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John B
Turpish
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If you have Psionic
Gift/Hermetic Study/Fire Whip in your deck for
some very good reason, like Hypnotic Specter for
example, then Brass Man makes sense. A 1/3 for 1
whose drawback can be usefull when so enchanted.
Or perhaps it would be more realistic to have him
in a deck with Kyren Negotiations, since the
Negotiatons are more useable. But those tricks
really aren't all that powerful, and he's sub-par
in almost every other deck. 2
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John
Hornberg
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This would be
extremely broken if it were a 2/2. Instead, we get
a 1/3, which is, unfortunately, good for little
more than blocking creatures.
Still, it is a pretty decent
one drop, and can stop pretty much anything that
can be dropped on the first turn. Unfortunately,
for the formats he goes into, he is absolute junk.
I give him a 3, because his play value is severely
undermined by not being in extended, and he still
doesn't hit for any more than the average 1 drop
would.
This guy in limited would be
pretty good. He, if he were in say Odyssey, would
be good, because he stops a lot of the creatures
out there, because he is a 1/3. Still, he's not a
high pick, and he has very little offensive value
what so ever, so I give him a 2 in limited. He
will make the cut as a filler card in many draft
decks.
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Robby
Hinton
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Limited: 2 1/2
Constructed: 2
I used to really like Brass
Man when it was Extended legal and Sligh was
running rampant. This guy was great against Sligh.
In limited, he's alrigh, but not stellar. He can
hold off your opponent for a few turns, but not
much more than that.
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Doc
Mackerel
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Thursday - Brass
Man
I don't really like Brass
Man. You're paying 1 mana for 1 point of power,
which is about average, but the cost to untap him
is real bad. Sure, he has 3 toughness, but Brass
Man doesn't really seem to be a target for
removal.
The best use for this card
would be against aggresive decks, blocking Sligh
aggresors without needing to untap, while the
control player builds a power base in the
background. You'll find him to be pretty average
in limited too, and want to spend the untapping
mana on something else.
Constructed - 3
Limited - 3
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