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[MKM] Hunted Bonebrute (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hunted Bonebrute - 2B

Creature - Skeleton Beast (Rare)

Menace

When Hunted Bonebrute enters the battlefield, target opponent creates two 1/1 white Dog creature tokens.

When Hunted Bonebrute dies, each opponent loses 3 life.

Disguise 1B

6/2

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[–] Lumun 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely love that they are adding to the hunted cycle. Those cards are sweet! This feels like it could have been more powerful, now that green is getting 3 mana 6/6s with barely any downside. Also there's that existing black 6/4, Heavy something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sorry if I’m missing something obvious but what green creature(s) are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like [[Pugnacious Hammerskull]] to me. And the black one is [[Shakedown Heavy]].

[–] Lumun 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah I was referring to the Hammerskull. It can block all it wants and attack normally a lot of the time. Even the drawback is minor for how absurd those stats are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

When the original Hunted cycle was new, I built a casual deck on MTGO with [[Hunted Troll]], [[Hunted Phantasm]], and [[Night of Souls' Betrayal]] to kill all their tokens. Sure, you shrunk your own Hunted creatures, but they were still the biggest things on the board and a pretty fast clock. One of my favorite parts was that I had [[Floating-Dream Zubera]]s as a speed bump. There were other two-drops you could have fit in that slot, but the Zuberas survived NoSB and with careful maneuvering you could arrange for two of them to die at once.

It wasn't competitive, but it was a blast to play. I still have a paper version of it for kitchen table games.

I wonder if it's time to upgrade. By replacing Hunted Phantasm with Hunted Bonebrute you could cut the deck down to two colors while speeding up your clock at the same time. Frankly, I'm sorry this thing has Disguise; that's really a distraction from what I'd want to do with it.

I hope this is part of a cycle and that the other cards in it are even more interesting. Magic is at its best when you're overcoming drawbacks with clever synergies, instead of just playing cards that are overpowered as printed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I was just learning to play when the OG hunter’s came out and tried something very similar!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Interesting design. If Disguise functions the same way as Morph I believe the card doesn’t enter the battlefield.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yup, undisguised creatures don't "enter the battlefield", they're just turned face-up. The design is also a cool callback to the Hunted cycle from the original Ravnica