This is just a sickly good creature. I'm not
sure what all there is to say about it. Green
gets creature kill and card draw. That's a
pretty hefty combination. I'm already thinking
of some crazy things to do with it.
Cosntructed: 4.5
Casual: 4
Limited: 3.5
Christine
Gerhardt
Ohran Viper
The hot rare of the set. Which ever way that
Viper deals damage, you get an excellent effect.
It's a fairy no lose situation for someone
playing this card. A decent cost for what it
does, and very playable in any format.
Constructed - 4
Casual - 3.5
Limited - 4
The Antman
Orhan Viper-
Rare- Coldsnap
This card is probably one of the most talked
about cards from coldsnap. Ophidian, but better
most people are saying. While I do think this
thing is better than the blue snake, it is over
rated. There are few decks that will want this
in it. Aggro decks with green will deem this too
slow and weak, Control decks with green will
rarely want to spend their 3rd turn playing this
dude instead of a counterspell, plus his mana
cost makes him a 'little' iffy in control decks,
since most that have green are not based on
green at all. Besides that, as a creature this
guy is amazing. The ability to draw or kill a
creature(with out targeting) is really useful,
and it will make your opponet hesitate to block.
Even if your opponet has a big creature out,
never hesitate to attack with this thing, if you
do then your opponet will have more options on
what to do, if you just attack your opponet will
have a hard time figuring out if he should block
it or not, limiting their choices.
Ratings:
Constructed- 3/5 once it finds the right deck it
will probably be 4/5
limited- 5/5 a cheep draw engine that also kills
creatures
casual- 2/5 nothing too flashy, but it does keep
your opponet at bay while drawing you cards
As I type this, I'm still fresh from the
Coldsnap prerelease. After opening a Viper and
seeing it in action, I can say safely that it is
a very solid card in Limited. You get extra
cards from it, always a positive, and it'll
usually either kill whatever blocks it to
finally kill it, or it'll draw a removal spell
away from your real win condition. Because as
great as this is, it will almost never swing for
the win.
Ohran Viper -
I'm a big fan of utility creatures that don't
bother with extraneous stats. A creature which
only needs to do 1 damage to the opponent to do
something cool doesn't generally need to waste
mana cost on more than 1 power. Hystrodon was an
attempt to fuse the card drawing ability with
the fat of green, and it just ends up being
crossed in purposes. Ohran Viper has very narrow
purposes. You won't be winning any damage races
with it, but it does what it does very well.
