Eldrazi Devastator

Common Creature Error

Why do you say that Eldrazi Devastator (the 8/9 trampler) at common was a mistake?

Because common shouldn’t have a creature of those stats. It’s too big.

Creatures Eldrazi Eldrazi Devastator

Eldrazi Gameplay Flavor

My problem with the Eldrazi is that a lot of them don't feel like anything special. Annihilator, while it had its problems, made them feel terrifying. Put an Eldrazi Devastator next to a Plated Crusher and tell me what makes them so unique and terrifying.

Annihilator had great flavor and horrible gameplay. Magic will fail longterm if we make it super flavorful but unfun.

Annihilator Eldrazi Eldrazi Devastator Flavor Game Play Plated Crusher

Common Rarity Power

How did we go from Duskdale Wurm (or, for that matter, Enormous Baloth one year earlier) at uncommon, to Eldrazi Devastator at common? Does Eldrazi Devastator mean that contemporary Magic could have a Green 7/7 or 8/8 creature with trample, with CMC less than its P/T, at common? Or is 8 mana just that much harder to pay than 7 mana (meaning that Eldrazi Devastator is okay, but a common 7/7 with trample for 7 colorless mana would not be)?

We push size a bit down in rarity for Eldrazi as we push artifacts a bit down in rarity for Mirrodin blocks. Sometimes to focus on something you have to push its as-fan a little bit.

Artifacts As-fan Colorless Creatures Duskdale Wurm Eldrazi Eldrazi Devastator Enormous Baloth Green Mana Value Mirrodin Rarity Trample Uncommons Wurm

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