I'm surprised how relatively under-utilized
the concept of fungus-based life forms is. Other
than Thallids, it's basically The Last Of Us and
the Mushroom Kingdom, none of which are really
cohesive with each other. Unsurprisingly,
Thallids are my favorite of those three, and
Sporoloth Ancient just happens to be a superstar
in a Thallid deck, accelerating their game plan
and providing a strong defender or attacker who
is invulnerable to many of the most common
mass-removal foils to the deck. To be honest,
I'm not sure how we ever played Thallid decks
without it.
Today's card of the day is Sporoloth Ancient
which is a five mana Green
4/4 that gains a spore counter at the beginning
of your upkeep and gives all creatures you
control remove two spore counters to put a 1/1
green saproling token into play. This is a
solid addition to a fungus themed deck that uses
Thallids, but is really only useful in that
theme and with support for the counters or
tokens. Overall a very niche card that
could see play in more casual settings, but is
slow and inefficient compared to other five mana
options for competitive formats.
In Limited formats where this is available it is
a five mana 4/4 body that produces a 1/1 token
every other turn. That alone makes it
playable, though the double Green and lack of
combat effects keeps it from being a higher pick
in Booster without additional support cards in
your pool. In Sealed it is worth including
in a Green build and gains value with other
spore cards, which is good enough for a common.
