Oh my goodness. I know there are thousands of
people that are very upset they opened this card
as a rare. It's almost no value in constructed
formats. Now, if I was in a sealed or draft
event and opened this guy I'd be extremely
happy. But unfortunately, this card is ONLY good
in limited. It's cost is too prohibitive
otherwise for what you can get.
For a
converted mana cost of eight, a creature
needs to really swing the game in your
favor. This one does, essentially
representing three creatures of advantage
for you-- you gain one, and they lose two.
Granted, they could replay the creatures you
bounce, but even then a 5/6 flier tends to
make quick work of opponents in a matter of
a few turns. Plus, if you have 6UU, chances
are you can play a counter spell to stop at
least one of the creatures.
I can't
see this ever making it big in Constructed
since games are usually over by Turn Eight,
but still it's a good card anywhere else.
Constructed- 1.5
Casual-
3.5
Limited-
2.5
Christine
Gerhardt
Hoverguard
Sweepers
While it's WAY expensive to use in constructed
formats, this is one card you will see popping
up a lot (and to happy players) in one
particular format - emphasis on "popping up".
It's Momir Basic. If you haven't played Momir
Basic, here's the scoop:
Momir Magic is a format based on using the Momir
Vig Avatar and a
deck consisting of nothing but else bu 60 basic
land cards.
Tha avatar's ability is: PayX, discard a card,
make a random creatrure of converted cost X. Of
course, this only works well on MTGO, as picking
a random card in a real paper card game would be
frustrating and time consuming, I'm sure.
So, knowing that, you LOVE to see the otherwise
dubious Hoverguard Sweepers show up in Momir
Basic, as it essentially means "Destoy 2 target
creatures," as all creatures in the format are
tokens. Of course, when you bounce a token, it
goes **poofta**.
Otherwise, the card is poopy. But try Momir
Basic sometime...it's pretty funny, especially
when your opponent taps 7 and randomly gets a
Phage. =)
Price check: $0.99
Constructed - 1.5
Casual - 1.5
Limited - 1.5
The Antman
Hoverguard
Sweepers- Rare- Fifth Dawn
While this thing was utter crap in constructed,
it was a bomb in limited. The ability to bring
your opponet back two turns attached to a 5/6
flyer and totally swing games. Probably the best
thing about this card, is that you can bounce a
opponets creature and hoverguard sweepers over
and over again if needed.
ratings:
constructed- 1/5 way too expensive for a
mediocre effect
limited- 4/5 a 5/6 flyer is nothing to scoff at,
inspecially when it bounces 2 other creatures
casual- 3/5 I can see people here liking it
