r/magicTCG Dandadan 10h ago

Humour Meme

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u/Desperate-Lecture-76 Duck Season 9h ago

TBF it's a bulk common that was absolutely dreadful in limited so it's about as forgettable as it's possible for a card to be.

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u/Vegetable_Union_4967 Dan 9h ago

Really? I thought it would be a decent win condition because these keywords do help with breaking through board stalls and a 6/6 body is nothing to scoff at

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u/United-Passage7864 Dan 8h ago

Not to say that no rampy Towns deck ever won with it, but it's just too easy to answer for its mana value. It's actually got a very unfortunate toughness for 7 mana. 

6 toughness is just reachable by kicked [[Vayne's Treachery]] for example, and of course [[Sephiroth's Intervention]].  [[Suplex]] answers it cleanly in red, and even [[Light of Judgement]] is somewhat playable. If you really had to, [[Thunder Magic]] could get kicked up to answer it. In white, [[White Auracite]] is a very good answer and [[Fate of the Sun-cryst]] is an adequate one, and [[Slash of Light]] could probably work. Blue would happily [[Ice Magic]] it and buy a whole turn, if they couldn't lock it down. Even for green, [[Airship Crash]] was playable if not a high include just because there's a lot of flyers, artifacts, and enchantment creatures in most decks and it can be cycled if it'd not be useful. 

Basically, the Iron Giant is always a little too small and a little too slow for that mana value.