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[Gren]

Card of the Day for Wednesday, April 11th 2012

Card Name »  Griselbrand
Mana Cost » 4BBBB

Expansion » Avacyn Reborn

Type » Legendary Creature - Demon

Card Text » Flying, Lifelink

Pay 7 life: Draw seven cards.

Rulings »

• None

Legal in »  NYR

Gren's Thoughts » HAHA oh wow. Looking past the summoning cost, he's pretty baller. 7 life to draw cards? Oh wait, I can get that back with Griselbrand's lifelink. Seriously, a 7/7 flyer with lifelink and a 7 card draw ability (especially with shit that works with stuff in your grave), yeah I like him more than Avacyn. Cheat him into play for full potential.

Art » Now THAT'S a demon.

Notes » Week 1 Spoilers begins for AVR. This set is going to be creamy.

[Dragonheart91]

He was originally going to cost 7 mana to go with the 7 theme across all his abilities and p/t... But they realized he was too overpowered at 7 and increased the cost. No shit? And 8 makes it so much better? Yeah this card is fricken amazing. Yawgmoth's Will on a creature that you can reanimate. This card will see play across multiple formats as a reanimation target or something to ramp into in black decks producing tons of mana. It's especially stupid in EDH where you can drop him and immediately draw 35 cards.

[Siyanor]

Then you play Venser's Journal.

[kakashipwnzor]

I miss when Innistrad was supposed to be nothing but horror themes, and the like. And then they give the big demon guy the number 7 everywhere. ...Just what. Avacyn should be the 7/7 for 7 CMC, Griselbrand should be 13/13 for 8, with his effect being something to the effect of Pay 13 Life, Deal 13 damage to all opponents.

Yes, that Draw Power is sick. But flavor man. Needs moar of it.

[Siyanor]

Na, it should be Pay 666 life: You win the game.

[Ritokure]

Pretty much what Kakashi said. This card is amazingly awesome and generates instant advantage once it drops. It also has a very solid body and great synergy between abilities. But seriously, what really breaks him is that Innistrad block also gave us one of the best reanimation spells in the game, and of course also in Black (and White just in case, which feeds this card's life-eating tendencies). Definitely a fattie worth dropping.
However, this card's flavor is severely lacking. A Lifelink Demon? That's just ridiculous. I could see this drawing ability on Black, but not on such a huge monstrosity hellbent on destruction. There's a slight hint of flavor here - After all, this guy has Vess' soul, so it makes sense that this guy could have a "faustian bargain" kind of effect, but even that wasn't explored enough here.

I'll have to disagree with Kakashi on a small detail here tho... The idea was to have a huge contrast between INN/DKA and AVR, which is nice because people are honestly getting tired of shit hitting the fan on the Magic Multiverse. I honestly think that Magic deserves a happy ending on this case.



EFF: 9/10
ART: 8/10 (Dat horns)

[n00bdragon]

Griselbrand is awesome and everyone poo-pooing on him is bad at Magic.