Card of the Day Home

Home

Card Price Guide

Featured Writers

Deck Garage

Community
Message Board 
Chat
Magic League

Contact Us

 


Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day


Image from Wizards.com

Goblin Sharpshooter 
Onslaught Common


Reviewed October 9, 2002

Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst.  3 ... average.  
5 is the highest rating

Click here to see all our 
Card of the Day Reviews 


Scott
Gerhardt

Nice and simple, he's sideboard against weenie.  One or two of him against a weenie deck clears the board.  That's his use - don't main deck him unless you have a weird combo.

Decent in limited, but so is anything that taps to deal damage.

Constructed: 3
Limited: 3


Judge Bill

A red Tim. If your opponent has a lot of one-toughness creatures out, then
this is good. Otherwise, you've paid 3 for a 1/1. He will randomly untap at
times, but something like this is not something a red mage would consider a
viable strategy. If I was going to play a red Tim in the new type 2, I'd pay
one more to be able to use it once per turn.

In limited, this is not the worst card, as it will keep anything with one
toughness off their side of the board. And removal is hard to come by, so if
I were playing red, I'd play this guy. This guy alone wouldn't make me want
to play red though.

Constructed: 1.5
Limited: 2.5


Rob
Lawing

Well if they made a goblin version of Tim you would probably play it in a red deck...right? Well, what if it Sucked ? You would say "I guess I wouldn't play it, Godfather" and the Godfather would smile at you and say "That's right, you're a good boy now go throw that crappy card in the trash and here's twenty dollahs for some candy." Then everyone would be happy because cards that don't untap unless X event happens generally suck unless you have some tech that works around the condition. Here you don't.
 
Rating
Constructed 1
Limited 1.5 cus he might be a chump blocker.

 
Alex
Hockey

Goblin Sharpshooter

Although direct damage is very strong in limited, I
wouldn't play this guy because you may only get to
untap him a few times. Creatures that die in combat go
to thegraveyard at the same time(ignoring first
strike), so you only get to untap the goblin
sharpshooter once - at least this is my understanding
of the rules (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm
wrong). A 2.5 in limited.

Now in constructed you can try to get round his
disadvantage eg. burning your opponents creatures to
sent them to the gravyard or using another card to
untap the sharpshooter. When you compare him to
prodigal sorcerer though, you see the sharpshooter
probably isn't that good except against a weenie deck.
A 3 in constucted.
 

 

 

 

Pojo.com

Copyright 2001 Pojo.com

   

Magic the Gathering is a Registered Trademark of Wizards of the Coast.
This site is not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast and is not an Official Site.