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Kuro, Pitlord
Champions of Kamigawa
Reviewed November 10, 2005
Constructed: 2.16
Casual: 2.5
Limited: 2.62
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DeQuan
Watson
* Game Store Owner |
Kuro, Pitlord
This card is a bit pricey to cast. Once he hits
the table though, things can get interesting and
swing to your favor pretty quickly. Also, if
you've got the life, you can annihilate little
critters with ease. He's a decent all around
creature. He's a bit cost prohibitive
unfortunately though. He's decent enough that he
can find his way into a couple of decks, but he
likely won't dominate any scenes of any kind.
Constructed: 2.5
Casual:3.5
Limited: 2.5
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Paul Hagan |
Kuru, Pitlord
Much like Laccolith Titan yesterday, Kuru is
just too expensive and his ability is too
focused on creature removal to be truly
worthwhile in a deck. Unless you are really
concerned about a lot of 1/1 creatures and you
have a way to gain a ton of life, your mana is
better spent on two or three cards instead of
this one. Unlike yesterday's Laccolith Titan, I
wouldn't be very gung-ho about playing Kuru in
my limited deck. Only if I expected to (a) run a
lot of land and (b) have extremely long games
would Kuru make the cut.
Constructed Rating: 1.5
Casual Rating: 1.5
Limited Rating: 2.0
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Christine
Gerhardt |
RAR! Extremely
difficult to get and keep in play (and
especially to do it while you still have enough
life left to really take advantage of his
ability). But if you can, this guy is just
devastating. You can eliminate your opponent's
threats if you have the life to spare. Much more
a casual card than anything else, but tons of
fun to play. I've played it in limited formats
also, but you really need to build your deck to
suit it (very defensive, accelleration, and
maybe a bit of life gain.
Constructed - 1.5
Casual - 3.5
Limited - 3.5
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Phoenix Tamer |
Kuro, Pitlord
If you wanna ask me... i never really cared for
the Kamigawa block for...reasons. The concept
good yet, the cards are "meh" in my opinion.
Overall you would think a 9/9 for 9 mana hey
that's pretty good! Yet it does have an upkeep
of 4 which is shying me away from it, it's other
ability is alright, i mean hey it's control, yet
it's not that good. In the end it looks cool and
in limited by the time you pull this out you
better be winning, I mean hey it's a demon
sounds cool eh? The upkeep of 4 seems a problem
to me, but hey that never stopped Dragon Tyrant
did it? Even though this card is no way compared
to the dragon's greatness.
Ratings:
Constructed~2.3
Casual~1.0
Limited~2.1
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Jordan
Kronick |
Kuro, Pitlord -
I have to admit to loving this card. He's huge
and he kills lots of creatures and he's got lots
of black mana symbols. So he's off to a good
start in my book. What else does he have going
for him? Well, there's not a lot. He's huge and
kills things and that's about it. I think that's
enough, though. I've seen him used to great
effect in the reanimation decks of Kamigawa
block, and I fully expect any Standard-era
reanmiation deck will use at least one these
days. Even if you're only keeping him around for
one turn, his ability to kill creatures can
sweep the board and save the day. In a limited
environment, I've used Kuro many times. The
chances of actually getting him in play are
somewhat lower, but once you do it's ordinarily
game over. As long as you have a decent amount
of life remaining to use his ability, you should
be winning in short order. Still, he's not fast.
And he doesn't have an evasion ability (unless
you consider killing other creatures to be
evasion). So where does that leave us?
Constructed Rating: 3.0
Casual Rating: 3.0
Limited Rating: 3.0 |
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