Battle Cry is awesome because it is essentially WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
It lets you do positively silly amounts of damage very quietly, at least by casual standards. I love the mechanic, I thought it was quite a bit cooler than infect OR metalcraft, and it's a shame they aren't making any more of them.
Well, maybe they will. Here's hoping.
Sword of Pride and Prejudice... and Zombies?
New Phyrexia's Mirran cards look so badass, look at those flavor texts. For a second there I thought we still had a chance.
The prerelease is in two weeks? Holy bat-something, I thought it would be in early May or... wait, it's late April already, isn't it? Time goes so fast when you need it to slow down the most.
Question, if you Waagh with battle cry, I don't believe it gives them counters, so it doesn't work with proliferate does it? if not then I still prefer infect, as it only needs to do at most half the damage a regular deck would have to to kill and opponent, and you can proliferate the hell out of it to not even need to do that.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"EDIT: I'm totally gonna make a Mr. Darcy EDH deck. :P
Battle Cry is until end of turn. No counters. Unless you put battlecry cards in an infect deck, in which case you can expect a LOT of counters.
Yes, but the problem is that there really isn't anything creative to do with Battle Cry design-wise, especially since they limited it to only +1/+0. If they made it Battle Cry X, then we could at least have some interesting designs like a frail creature that gives a massive battle cry bonus to everything but itself, or a battlecry equal to the number of attacking creatures, or something.
And gameplay-wise, Battle Cry is just "ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK". Exalted was a good mechanic because it encouraged decision making, since only one creature could attack to get the exalted bonus; Battle Cry is good if everyone attacks, which is exactly what most decks want to do. [/stophavingfun]
Still, there is some charm in hitting the opponent with 3 extra power on each of your creatures. :P
edited 25th Apr '11 6:27:56 AM by Scardoll
Fight. Struggle. Endure. Suffer. LIVE.see, my decks tend to use creatures as nothing more than spells with legs and/or Ablative People shields, so Attack! Attack! Attack! is kind of beyond me.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"Please.
Come talk to me when you've stabilized at 1 life in suicide black control against combo-aggro and come back for the win.
I pulled off a control combo win at -7 life :3
Shrouded platinum angel and a Magus of the Mirror
edited 25th Apr '11 2:09:25 PM by Lanceleoghauni
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"

Wow, that's less than two weeks.
...and people were surprised that spoilers were coming out this early? Huh.
Ruining everything forever.