If I recall correctly, this is one of the
official partial replacements for Doubling
Season, which is considered unacceptably
degenerate with planeswalkers. (Yes, Doubling
Season is considered degenerate by the same
people who thought Snapcaster Mage was okay.)
Unlike Parallel Lives, which was the same card
type as Doubling Season and thus had its
"shortcomings" inherently highlighted,
Corpsejack Menace does its thing along a
slightly different angle and thus feels slightly
better as a partial replacement. It still
doesn't interact with Thallids' spore counters
(which it feels like it should, having the
creature type Fungus), but it does good work,
especially if you consider with how it fits in
with the rest of the Golgari cards in its set.
Magic The Gathering Card of The Day: Corpsejack
Menace
Welcome back readers todays card of the day is
Corpsejack Menance an interesting 4 drop that
provides one half of Doubling Season that boosts
the power of scavenge. In standard this card is
slow as it relies on scavenge or other ways of
putting counters on creatures to be most
effective and simply being a 4/4 for four mana
may not be enough to push it into the area of
competitive play. In modern it also does not do
enough against combo decks and is too slow. In
legacy and vintage I don’t foresee it making a
splash either due to the slow nature of it and
its reliance on cards placing counters on
creatures. In casual and multiplayer it’s a
powerful half of Doubling Season and plays
really well with scavenge allowing you to win
games of attrition making it a powerful choice
for a four drop. In limited its decent if you
can draft some scavenge or unleash cards from
Rakdos it is also a solid 4/4 for four making it
solid. Overall a card with little constructed
potential but oodles of casual.
Today's card of the day is Corpsejack Menace
which is a four mana Black and Green 4/4 that
doubles the number of +1/+1 counters when placed
on your creatures. This combos well with
many different effects and the cost is
reasonable for what would likely be a primarily
Green deck with a splash of Black. In
addition to Unleash, Undying, Scavenge, and
several Morbid effects there are cards like
Increasing Savagery, Primordial Hydra, Hunger of
the Howlpack, Blessings of Nature, and Bond
Beetle that can flesh out an aggressive build
based on Corpsejack Menace. Overall there
is quite a bit of potential if properly
supported in a dedicated design, though it is
unlikely to gain traction outside of Casual
formats.
For Limited a four mana 4/4 is playable and
Golgari's colors have quite a few sources of
+1/+1 counters in the set. Cards that are
merely decent can become overwhelming as long as
this is kept in play and it is well worth a
first pick in Booster to be followed with
appropriate support. In Sealed there is no
reason not to use this even if your pool is
light on sources of +1/+1 as the 4/4 body and
even the chance of the effect should produce
enough value.
Welcome to the Pojo.com card of the day
section. This time we are looking at the
Corpsejack Menace from Return to Ravnica.
Corpsejack Menace is a rare black and green
creature fungus that costs two generic, one
black and one green mana for a 4/4. Corpsejack
Menace says whenever a +1/+1 counter would be
placed onto a creature you control, twice that
many counters are placed on that creature
instead.
Just an awesome creature. Talk about
getting what you paid for. A 4/4 for four is a
bargain, but then to add in such an awesome
ability to boot is a steal in my opinion. When
the set was released, we were told how despite
people wishing that Doubling Season would
return, it would not. Instead they were printing
cards that mimicked Doubling Season. They
printed two cards that relatively did what
Doubling Season did were Corpsejack Menace and
Parallel Lives. While these newer cards do
nothing for Planeswalkers, they in fact
replicate very closely what the Doubling Season
could do for tokens and +1/+1 counters. In fact,
the nicest thing is, the Corpsejack Menace is
better when it comes to the counters, since it
would not amplify the -1/-1 counters like the
Doubling Season would. It only affects the +1/+1
counters.
Of course, Corpsejack Menace is amazing
in the Guild that he calls home. When you
Scavenge with the Corpsejack Menace out, you
gain doubled benefits from doing so. A simple
zero Scavenge Slitherhead becomes a +2/+2. Then
imagine using a Deathbridge Goliath’s Scavenge.
It would be ten +1/+1 counters!
