Eldrazi are wicked man...
Modern forum
Posted on Oct. 7, 2015, 3:55 a.m. by Stein_
Speaking about here a super awesome uncommon by the name of
if you haven't played with this card in anything from sealed, to draft, to standard, or so on, let me just say, from my tests in modern, this guy is a nasty powerhouse.
Why, you ask? Because you either have the removal for it, or don't. Buck up, or shut up and flip the table. As a traditional Unburial Rites player, he kicks major ass. :)
I would love to hear your opinions. :)
Peace!
As for as modern goes, I don't know, seems to have a high cmc.
But I am afraid this will see quite some play in EDH ;)
October 7, 2015 6:42 a.m.
I can see it being a good idea in modern Rites budget build, if you can afford the high price guys. It'll probably soak up removal every single time though.
October 7, 2015 7:09 a.m.
Tyrant-Thanatos says... #6
Yeah I can see it being pretty sick in Limited formats, but he's not worth the CMC in constructed, he's not big enough to be worth reanimating, and he has nothing to protect him from removal.
At least from a competitive standpoint, but I reanimate Sun Titans, so who the hell am I to trust? lol
October 7, 2015 7:24 a.m.
I really hate to crush your Timmy-dreams but: he is bad in Modern. I could name you 20 creatures impromptu that are worthier to be reanimated with Unburial Rites, or generally speaking: better than Bane of Bala Ged (it's name is super cool though).
October 7, 2015 9:46 a.m.
The only Modern deck I'd consider running Bane of Bala Ged is Tron, and Tron has much better 7 mana cards than the Bane.
October 7, 2015 9:52 a.m.
Ran this guy in draft. I was down to 2 life and stabilizing, then this guy came down and sealed the deal. Wouldn't have won without the exile effect. Fantastic fantastic bomb in draft.
October 7, 2015 10:36 a.m.
Great in limited. Swung once on me before i couldn't remove it, and couldn't recover afterwards... just a slow death from that point on.
constructed - don't think there's a place for him.
October 7, 2015 12:38 p.m.
Tron has no reason to play this over Wurmcoil Engine and Karn Liberated, Unburial Rites decks are much better off playing Griselbrand, Iona, Shield of Emeria or Borborygmos Enraged, and I'm not sure there are any reanimator cards in Standard right now, but if there are... Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger and that Eldrazi that hates on even CMCs are better targets for it anyway.
October 7, 2015 1:04 p.m.
As a traditional Rites player, he can actually come out on turn 3, with luck of course. He is vulnerable, highly costed, but if you erase the cost of him, he is actaully an awesome creature. Sure, he doesn't ETB with an effect, and you have to wait a whole turn to even get any value out of him, so yeah he isn't great, but look people, don't just bash shit for the sake of bashing shit or calling things bad. thats not how people should act honestly. anyways, back to Bane. He has a big body, and is extremely vulnerable. If anything, i would rather him soak up a removal spell over say Elesh Norn, or Iona. Ya feel me?
October 7, 2015 1:45 p.m.
As a 4C Gifts player I would rather have Sun Titan, Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite, Iona, Shield of Emeria, Griselbrand or even a stray Sigarda, Host of Herons than I ever would Bane of Bala Ged. Everything I listed either does something when it comes into play, is near impossible to remove, or outright causes opponents to scoop. Bane does only maybe that last one, but it becomes hard for that to happen when he dies to basically every removal spell in the format aside from Lightning Bolt and Abrupt Decay.
October 7, 2015 2:07 p.m. Edited.
selesvyaloverer8 says... #14
Ulamog's Crusher, It That Betrays, Pathrazer of Ulamog or any other big colorless eldrazi from rise are strictly better reanimation targets if you really want annihilator, but everything everyone else has said is much better. A relevant thing to keep in mind is bane dies to roast and dismember, both fairly common removal spells people run to deal with tasigur and angler.
October 7, 2015 3:58 p.m.
BryanAnthony: No one is bashing shit for the sake of bashing shit. We're just calling it as we see it. I mean, look at what you just said.
" if you erase the cost of him, he is actaully an awesome creature. Sure, he doesn't ETB with an effect, and you have to wait a whole turn to even get any value out of him"
You're basically saying "hey, take away all the stuff that makes it a bad card and it's a great card!". If you disregard the fact Cancel costs three mana and not two, it's as powerful as Counterspell. If you disregard the fact Day's Undoing ends your turn right away, it's every bit as powerful as Timetwister. See why this line of thinking is flawed?
Cards are judged for what they are, not for what they could be if it weren't for this or that. And the fact of the matter is, Bane of Bala Ged isn't impactful enough for reanimator, pales in comparison to the 6 and 7-drops in Tron, and is too slow for any other Modern deck - not to mention it's weaker than most of the old Eldrazi (which are bad reanimator targets to start with).
We gave you a very detailed explanation of why we feel the card is too weak - and if you still doubt us, by all means build a reanimator shell for Bane of Bala Ged and play it to your heart's content. It shouldn't take many Dismembers and Terminates for you to realize you'd much rather have brought back an Iona naming black instead. Or a Griselbrand, so you just draw a mountain of gas in response to removal. Or a Sigarda, Host of Herons that your opponents can't kill OR block. And so on.
October 7, 2015 4:54 p.m.
square711 yeah haha i feel you.
However, in response to your Griselbrand, I have tried Grizz in modern in my traditional reanimator, and it's just not as good as you take so much life. I've tried. Sigarda is my favorite, and as soon as she smacks, you have x turns depending on your life to lose. A turn 3 Sigarda is pretty killer against Jund.
JexInfinite says... #2
It's bad in modern. For 7 mana, you could play much better cards. As an Unburial Rites target, it's completely uninspiring compared to absolutely everything else.
October 7, 2015 4:19 a.m.