|
Pojo's MTG
MTG Home
Message Board
News & Archives
Deck Garage
BMoor
Dolf
BeJoSe
Columnists
Paul's Perspective
Jeff Zandi
DeQuan Watson
Jordon Kronick
IQ
Aburame Shino
Rare Hunter
Tim Stoltzfus
WiCkEd
Judge Bill's Corner
Trading Card
Game
Card of the Day
Guide for Newbies
Decks to Beat
Featured Articles
Peasant Magic
Fan Tips
Tourney Reports
Other
Color Chart
Book Reviews
Online Play
MTG Links
Staff
This Space
For
Rent
|
 |
Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
Daily Since November 2001!
|
Image from
Wizards.com |
|
Manglehorn
- Amonkhet
Reviewed
May 16, 2017
Constructed: 3.25
Casual: 3.25
Limited: 2.50
Multiplayer: 3.25
Commander [EDH]: 3.25
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scale:
1 - Horrible 3 - Average. 5 - Awesome
Click here to see
all of our
Card of the Day Reviews
|
David Fanany
Player since
1995 |
Manglehorn
I find it hard to believe people found things
like Viridian Shaman - even going all the way
back to Uktabi Orangutan - lacking. I actually
think it's more that artifacts are a lot faster
in recent sets than they sometimes, and
Manglehorn is trying to help its controller get
back on the front foot as green usually likes to
be, rather than having to sit back and destroy
everything it can. I could see this even slowing
down Affinity if it gets down fast enough, but
it is a little fragile against Shrapnel Blast
and Electrostatic Bolt.
Constructed: 3/5
Casual: 3/5
Limited: 3/5
Multiplayer: 3/5
EDH/Commander: 3/5 |
|
James H. |
Manglehorn (5/16)
Looks like Viridian Shaman just got upstaged, or
something. The first half of the effect is the
same (blow up an artifact when it hits play),
but the second half is a bit better. It actually
would have slowed down the dreaded Saheeli
Rai-Felidar Guardian combo until the latter got
banned, but it's still decent counterplay
against Saheeli (since the copies she makes are
artifacts in addition to their usual types). It
also slows down the infamous Aetherworks Marvel
by a bit.
Manglehorn is a solid sideboard card. It's not
great enough in combat to justify playing it
over something else, and it needs a really
favorable metagame (which Kaladesh does help
with) to consider mainboarding. It is a reliable
bit of artifact hate, though, and I can see it
getting healthy amounts of play across most
formats for that reason (with, oddly enough,
Vintage not being out of reach; a turn 1
Manglehorn cripples a lot of the fast artifact
mana the format is built around).
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 3.5
Limited: 2
Multiplayer: 3.5
Commander: 3.5
|
|
