• Mike@piefed.chrisco.me
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    14 days ago

    Whats even better is that the squirrels can stop it from attacking for at least 15 turns.

    Im just imagining something like Cthulhu coming out about to destroy the word and a squirrel hurls itself at it…and now it has to wait another year for another go.

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          14 days ago

          When it attacks, the defending player has to sacrifice X permanents, in Emrakul’s case that’s 6.

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            14 days ago

            So I haven’t played since sixth edition… are squirrels that are ‘tokens’ considered permanents? I seem to recall the squirrels shenanigans involving doubling each turn, so if you had enough to block eldrazi, you could have enough to survive the annihilator as well.

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              14 days ago

              Yes, anything on the battlefield counts as a permanent.

              I mean if you have a doubling amount of them, you need enough that you can lose 7 per turn and still recover. So you need at least 7 to begin with, and you could block forever.

              The real flaw with the comic is that Emrakul has flying, so squirrels can’t block it anyway, unless you give them all flying.

              Really though, it’s meant to be a game-winning card. It does so much that it’s very hard to survive and recover if it’s on the board.

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    14 days ago

    Given the other sorts of things that pass for 1/1 creatures, I’d assume each token either represents a giant squirrel or a swarm of regular-sized ones.

    That said, 15/15 does seem a tad low for a world-destroying eldritch horror.

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    14 days ago

    Everyone knows you can’t block against flying creatures. That’s why my magic deck is a suicide. Blue filled with 1/1 flying creatures and enchantments to make my non-flying creatures flying-creatures. It’s pretty good.