Draft Priority: 4
Impact: 4
Stack Status: 5
Boss. Unless you’re playing an small, limited pool, Ancient Hellkite should make the cut as it’s a big, fun creature that also uniquely benefits from the Type 4 rules.
Discussion:
Despite his apparently impressive age (or maybe because of it), Ancient Hellkite falls just short of that elite category of everlasting cataclysm creatures, led by a Flowstone Overseer in a smoking jacket and dope bowler hat. I want to give him 5s, but the ol’ Hellkite can’t quite cut it. Despite an impressive body and evasion, no immediate impact on stepping into the cipher and a total inability to surprise anybody pushes the Ancient one into the 4 category.
This is still a very good card that will often be a first pick, and it’s limitations are sometimes handy. Guys like Flowstone Overseer, in their Trump-esque swagger and obnoxiousness, let you wield power at the price of a mob of haters. The Hellkite’s power is innately more responsible, letting you pick on one jerkass at the table and not provoking the furor of the unwashed plebs you’re forced to play cards with.
Overall: Four and a half guys burning to death out of five.
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