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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
Atog
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1R, Summon Atog 1/2, Revised
Edition Common
0: +2/+2. Each time you use this ability, you must
sacrifice one of your artifacts in play.
Pojo's Average
Rating -
Constructed: 1.79
Limited: 1.59
Reviewed Dec. 17, 2001
Ratings are
based on a 1 to 5 scale
1 being the worst. 3 ...
average.
5 is the highest rating.
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DeQuan
Watson
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This card is pretty
basic. I can remember getting upset when I
pulled these guys out of Revised booster packs.
Needless to say, they aren't very good.
I give this card a 1.05 in constructed and a
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Fletcher
Peatross
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The
original. Atog was never unbalancing in
any format but could find its uses in a
heavy artifact deck. In Limited its going
to most likely be a 1/2 for 1R which is
fairly subpar. In Constructed the whole
deck will have to support it to be any
decent.
Constructed 2.5
Limited 1
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Aaron
Teare
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constructed *
limited *
A weak creature with an even more pathetic special
ability. =(
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John
Hornberg
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I find this card
to be very bland at best. If this were to be
inserted into the current Type II format, it would
not get anywhere simply because of the fact that
you need to sacrifice an artifact when you use
it's ability. The key problem is that there are
very few artifacts that you would want to
sacrifice, because they all either cost upwards of
4 mana or more, or are have an effect that is too
beneficial to give up (Like Spellbook or all
cards).
Still, he gets brownie
points for that malicious little grin, and the
fact that he's a classic. So, he get's a 3 in
constructed in type II (If he were there) and
Extended (I don't even know if he's there
either!). In type I, I give him a 2, simply
because he is not one of the select few that would
see play, even though he has the potential to be a
bombshell with all the 0 to cast artifacts. In
limited, his rating would waver. He's terrible in
limited, because in limited artifacts worth
throwing away are hard to come by, and he isn't
exactly the best 2 drop in the world, let alone
Revised or Antiquities. So, I give him a 2 out of
5, just getting above a 1 because his ability is
so useless in this format.
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John B
Turpish
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I've never
seen this guy do anything worthwhile. A 1/2 for
1R isn't worth it, especially when it's
competing with very powerful cards that have the
exact same mana cost. His ability is limited to
the number of artifacts you have in play, and
giving a little guy +2/+2 isn't worth the loss
of the artifact. Rating = 1
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Robby
Hinton |
Limited: *** (3
Stars)
Constructed: ** (2 Stars)
The original Atog has a
place in many players' heart. It has been around
for quite a while gazing at us with those big eyes
and wide smile. This, of course, has no impact on
the fact that is a really bad card. The reason it
rates higher in limited is because it originally
came from Antiquities, a set filled to the brim
with artifacts (the set also brought us Urza and
Mishra). This little guy could easily finish
someone of if it went through unblocked. In
constructed, you really have to strive to make him
worth while since the deck has to be based around
him.
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Scott
Gerhardt
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Atog - the man
who started it all - Atogmania! The truth be
known, Atog really was never that good. When he
first came out in Antiquities, he was kinda seen
as a potential late-game threat. People played a
lot of artifacts back then and had had the
potential to come over for 10+. This necessitated
the Atog to get blocked anytime it felt frisky
enough to come over and serve. Today's
environment, though, is quite different. The use
of Artifacts is not nearly what is was, and today,
Atog is nothing more than a shadow of the threat
he used to be.
In limited, he's even worse.
There are so few artifacts to begin with, that
Atog's ability almost never comes into play,
leaving him, if he's lucky, to get up to a 3/4 at
best - there are better creatures.
New Constructed: n/a
Old Constructed: 2.0
Constructed Potential: 2.0
Limited: 1.5
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