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Exoskeletal Armor
Judgment - Uncommon
Pojo's Average
Rating -
Constructed: 2.09
(8 Reviews)
Limited: 3.63 (8 Reviews)
Reviewed August 16, 2002
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Mason
Peatross
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Week's Card Selector
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Make your own Lhurgoyf. True, you give your
opponent inherent card advantage
by playing creature enchantments - but let me say
that when you make your
creature super fat, he doesn't have much time to
get that card advantage.
Limited: 2.5
Constructed: 1
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Andrew
Chapman
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Exoskeletal Armor has decent sideboard potential
in a
beatdown mirror match. Changing one of your
creatures
into a Mortivore/Lhurgoyf is nothing to scoff at,
and
your opponent should have a hard time dealing with
the
creature. Slap it on a Phantom to create a
nigh
unkillable creature.
In Limited, this card is almost as good as
Mortivore,
which is a bomb by every means. That means
good
things for this card. By the way, bounce
isn't very
prevalent in this block. Good news for
creature
enchantments.
Constructed: 3
Limited: 4
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Scott
Gerhardt
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I'm not even talking
about constructed - almost all critter
enchantments suck in constructed, this being no
exception.
In limited, if you have a good place to play
this, like a Cephlid Inkshrouder, Escape Artist,
or something with some good 'ole evasion, it's the
nuts. You need to be a little critter heavy
and a little fast, but this card can make things
stupid fast.
Constructed
- 1.5
Limited - 4
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Alex
Hockey
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Hmm, kinda like empyrial armour for green.
Of course, its not. Empyrial armour regularly gave
your creature about +4/+4 from turn 3 onwards.
Exoskeletal armour can give your creature much
larger
bonuses, but only when the graveyards get full of
creatures. A definite possibility in a U/G
threshold
deck though. A 3.5 in constructed.
I'd love this card in limited. It makes your
creatures
harder to destroy, it's cheap its splashable... a
4 in limited.
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Fletcher
Peatross
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Goyf is a house. Goyf on a
phantom creature is just plain nuts. This
card
would lead me to play green if at all possible in
Limited. Its not really
playable in Constructed though. A 4 in
Limited, a 1 in Constructed.
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Rob
Lawing
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I like this card a lot in limited. It is a cheap
enchant creature which can
make any creature huge very quickly, dropped on a
flyer, trampler, or other
evasion creature and you have a pretty clear road
to victory. In
Constructed it is a good card as well but not many
green creature
enchantments seem to find there way into the
current metagame.
Rating
Limited-4.5
Constructed-2.5
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Michael
Garten
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Due to the fact that there must be a considerable
number of dead creatures
for it to be effective, Exoskeletal Armor is not
an ideal card. Though it
potentially gives a creature a bonus of about
+7/+7, that creature is still
vulnerable to simple destruction (or bounce)
spells. It is more powerful in
limited, though still succumbs to the same card
disadvantage restraints. A
1.5 in constructed, a 2 in limited.
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John
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Exoskeletal Armor is one of those
rare creature enchantments that is
blah in constructed, while possibly a first pick
in draft almost every
time. The only reason why I don't like this
card in Type II or Extended
is because not enough creatures go to the
graveyard to make this any
better than Elepahant Guide. I could be
wrong, though, it could be
unusally good. A 2.75 in constructed, may be
more, may be less.
In draft, creatures are flyingevery which way,
some of them getting to
the graveyard. By turn 5 or so, I've thrown
this on a something really
large, and won a game. It makes a HUGE
difference in a game. Thus, I
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