Ten mana over at least two turns to put a
creature card into play from your hand or
graveyard? I suppose it's still just barely
cheaper than hardcasting Darksteel Colossus, and
this is colorless graveyard reanimation so it's
bound to be a bit expensive, but I can't imagine
any deck having room for this card. It'd be
easier just to splash black for Zombify and a
discard outlet-- the ability to get a creature
from your hand as well as your graveyard is not
worth this much time and mana.
I never understood why Triassic Egg was able to
get a creature from your graveyard as well as
your hand. Perhaps the designers of Legends
wanted to enable a mono-blue reanimator deck?
Perhaps said designers had a premonition of
Dragon Tyrant and thought of casting it for no
mana? Perhaps the dinosaurs knew the secret of
reincarnation? The truth may lie somewhere in
between. The only wrinkle is that it doesn't fit
so well in the Shivan Raptor/Imperiosaur K-T
Line beatdown archetype.
Welcome back readers today's egg card is
Triassic Egg and I promise to go easier on the
puns and space them out through the week so you
don't crack(Get it?). In standard, extended and
eternal this card is impossibly slow and is
either illegal or wont see any amount of play.
Focusing on casual and multiplayer combine this
card with proliferate and you can get a slow
ineffective Zombify or an expensive colorless
Dramatic Entrance. Overall this card could see
nice play but the cost of building it up and
sacrificing and recurring may not be worth it
unless your sneaking in something like
Progenitus and even then there are better and
cheaper options to cheat creatures into play
although instant speed is a bonus. In limited
its expensive but can be put into any color deck
its slow and most likely not worth it.
Today's card of the day is Triassic Egg which
is another older card, but this one does gain
some new life with new mechanics such as
Proliferate which can add another counter and
bring the effect into play a turn earlier.
Several deck designs do revolve around bringing
out one big creature and this is another way of
doing it, but this is a bit slower and more
suited to an artifact build than Polymorph or
Elvish Piper style. Overall not a bad
card, but other options exist and across more
modern formats.
For Limited, which would consist of Legends,
Chronicles, or a box of Masters Edition IV this
is one way to bring an expensive creature into
play or back into play when your available mana
is low or even the wrong color. The
versatility makes it quite valuable in a
multicolor deck or after losing a key creature
to removal or in combat. The casting cost
and six mana to fully activate takes time to
manage, so it is a bit expensive as a first pick
though working in any deck makes up for that
drawback. In Sealed it can be played
alongside any color combination, but as this is
only one card in forty the deck shouldn't focus
on expensive or Gold cards to avoid getting
stuck with unplayable hands.
Welcome to Easter week here
at Pojo.com. Today we take a look at Triassic
Egg. Triassic Egg is an artifact that costs four
generic mana. Triassic Egg has an activated
ability that costs three mana and tap it to put
a hatchling counter on it. It has another
activated ability that allows you to sacrifice
it to either put a creature card from your hand
onto the battlefield or return target creature
card from the graveyard to the battlefield. This
ability can only be activated if there are two
or more hatchling counter on Triassic Egg.
Triassic Egg is definitely a great card in terms of
getting some large creatures out fast, or
returning something that died out quickly. The
only draw back, is it is slow, and could
potentially be easily destroyed. These days, one
mana can destroy an artifact. But hey, sometimes
it is worth the risk. Just examine a handful of
cards that Triassic Egg could drop really fast,
such as Emrakul, Kozilek, Ulamog, Blightsteel
Colossus, and several others, it is no wonder
this card is worth it.
