Welcome back readers todays card of the day is
the highly flavorful Dragon Egg. For three mana
you receive a competent defender. When it dies
as it undoubtedly will you get yourself a 2/2
evasive creature with firebreathing. In all
constructed formats this card is just too slow
and doesn’t really do enough to justify its
inclusion in your creature slot and just isn't
powerful enough to bother with. In casual and
multiplayer it’s a decent early blocker that can
threaten and rattlesnake an opponent with the
idea of giving you an evasive creature. Dragon
is also a relevant tribal type. In limited its
solid you get an evasive creature out of the
deal although lots of red mana is needed to make
the best use of it. Overall a solid defensive
card for casual and limited environments.
Today's card of the day is Dragon Egg which is
a three mana Red 0/2 with Defender that puts a
2/2 Red token with firebreathing into play when
it dies. This is a decent card by itself, though
not a good fit for a primarily aggressive deck,
that works better alongside a sacrifice engine
or global removal. Combat tricks can improve the
efficiency by trading with an opponent before
getting the token and it also helps keep the
opponent more on the defensive. Overall this is
an interesting card for some decks, though the
reliance on being destroyed will probably keep
it from being a popular choice in competitive
formats.
In Limited this can be somewhat difficult to
work around if the opponent isn't attacking or
attacks evasively, leaving this as a more
situational choice than it may first appear. It
can prevent some attacks, but in general it is a
fairly weak pick in Booster or Sealed and is
useful mostly as an in color and on curve
addition if needed.
Starts with Dragon Egg, which grows into Dragon
Hatchling, that matures into Shivan Dragon, and
finally it becomes the Scourge of Valkas.
Dragon Egg is a good card. It combos well with
Scourge of Valkas. SoV's ability triggers when
both the Dragon Egg and the token enters the
field. 2R for a 0/2 defender is a bit high, but
it helps by blocking a creature or absorbing a
kill spell and 2R is a good price for a 2/2 that
can be pumped in red.
Dragon Egg is on the review chopping block
today. Dragon Egg is a card that is essentially
only useful after death. I’ve always hoped WOTC
would make more powerful cards with this
concept. It would make defenders more popular
and definitely more playable. I don’t see Dragon
Egg getting much use in Standard play, unless a
player finds a recurring sacrifice engine.
Limited play is the best place for Dragon Egg to
shine. Casual beginners seem to enjoy cards like
Dragon Egg and I can see why. It is a dragon
that starts as an egg!
