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Worldwake Preview: Skitter of Lizards
by Bill Stark | posted at 2010-01-01 21:01:00
tagged: MTG, Magic, Magic the Gathering, Worldwake, Prerelease, Skitter of Lizards, Spoiler, Preview
Looking for Worldwake spoilers? We've got 'em! Check out Skitter of Lizards:
First things first kids, multikicker is confirmed. One of the game's all time favorite abilities is coming back with a tweak. Now instead of getting one effect for your mana investment, you get an extra effect for each installment of mana you can afford to pay. In the case of Skitters, it pumps exponentially. Got three mana? How about a 2/2 with haste. Got five mana? Get yourself a 3/3. And so on. This is exactly the type of card aggressive red strategies are looking for. It does something in the early game that's arguably reasonable (Raging Goblin has seen competitive play), then in the late game serves as an X spell that allows you to make good use out of all the mana you've got lying around.
Multikicker is definitely an exciting development, and while Skitter of Lizards isn't an eye droppingly powerful card, it is a hot inclusion to keep an eye on when designing red decks over the next two years.
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Bill Stark is the founder and editor-in-chief of TheStarkingtonPost.com. He began playing Magic in 1995 after being introduced to the game by his brother. Since then he has competed at all levels of play including the JSS, Grand Prix, Nationals, and Pro Tour. In addition to his career as a pro, Bill began writing about the game early on for TheDojo.com, the first website dedicated to Magic. Since then he has written and edited for nearly every major Magic website on the web. In 2007 he began work as an official coverage reporter for Wizards of the Coast, flying to Grand Prixs, Nationals, and World Championships to record the events happening at each. He was also hired for six months as an R&D intern at Wizards where he worked on the redesign for DailyMTG.com as well as helping to develop multiple Magic sets. After leaving Wizards, he started TheStarkingtonPost.com to utilize his many contacts in the industry to provide a better information solution for fans of TCGs, gaming, and Magic: The Gathering.