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Cunning Bandit
Betrayers of Kamigawa
Reviewed January 28, 2005
Constructed: 2.63
Casual: 2.75
Limited: 3.50
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Ray "Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer |
Cunning Bandit
Woo hoo! Finally a guy I like from our first
week of Betrayers reviews. Took all week to get
here, but I love this guy. He's good in draft,
potentially game breakingly so, and in Champions
Block Constructed he has some fantastic
potential as well. As a plain old 2/2 for two
mana, I must admit he seems to be lacking a bit,
but when you flip this guy he becomes a 5/2, and
can steal two guys away from your opponent to
remove blockers from him, create some blockers
if necessary, and if anything on your opponent's
side of the board has haste, this guy suddenly
is twice as good. He's not the top of the heap,
but he's a solid addition to draft and to
Champions Block Constructed.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 2
Limited: 4 |
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner |
Cunning
Bandit - Friday
I'm not a huge fan of those new flip guys with
the Ki counters. However, this one definitely
caught my eye. If you can even take a creature
once or twice, it could be really good. The
neat part is that you only need to remove one
counter to steal a creature. I also like the
fact that you get to choose what turn to flip
the guy. It gives you a little more
versatility.
Constructed: 3
Casual: 4
Limited: 4 |
Paul
Hagan |
Cunning Bandit –
I think Cunning Bandit is a cute card, but
nothing special. There are enough decent spirit
or arcane spells floating around that any deck
built to utilize Cunning Bandit can do so with
ease. However, the actual ability on Cunning
Bandit is only OK. The reason Grab the Reins or
Threaten were decent was because your opponent
wasn’t sure if it was coming. With Cunning
Bandit on the table, they not only see it
coming, they have a turn to react to it. This is
a *huge* detriment.
In limited, Cunning Bandit might make the cut if
I don’t have any better red cards, but it
wouldn’t be one of the first few cards into the
deck. The lack of consistent removal in limited
ups the quality of Cunning Bandit slightly.
Constructed Rating: 2.0
Casual Rating: 2.0
Limited Rating: 2.5 |
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner
(Shuffle and Cut) |
Cunning Bandit
Wow, this is some serious stuff. If you have
enough Spirit/Arcane spells to play, you can
create quite a collection of ki counters on this
guy before you flip him. Then, you can pretty
much take your opponent's whole army and leave
them with no blockers. It's too bad it says
"Until end of turn" instead of "At end of turn"
since you could then actually take them during
your opponent's end step and also use them to
attack ;). He's a decent cost of 3 mana for a
2/2, and will undoubtedly see some unlimited
play. In casual, if you like his ability, he's
pretty solid and worth building around.
Constructed: 2.5
Casual: 3
Limited: 3.5 |
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