Thursday 10 September 2009

Aboroth, rare (first printed in Weatherlight, 1997)


Laughably bad even at the time, Aboroth compares pitifully to the top-heavy creatures of the modern era and I fear most tournament players would find the card useless even if its textbox were blank. Perhaps, in a deck that uses AEther Snap to combat unpredictabally rogue strategies, the Aboroth may serve as a comedic finisher? Perhaps, now that its creature type has been meddled to Elemental it may gain some incidental support from cards which care about more common creature types, yet for a similar cost, one can summon Child of Gaea or Silvos, Rogue Elemental. It is sad to completely dismiss a card, but what we have here is a relic. For a better variation on the theme of collapsing monsters, see Blastoderm. Can be acquired for about thirty pence a copy.

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