World Breaker is Hot; Endbringer is Not
World Breaker costs seven mana. Turns out that helps to make it pretty cool.
Let us consider two different (rumored) Eldrazi giants from the upcoming Magic: The Gathering set Oath of the Gatewatch.
One is the aforementioned World Breaker. As a seven drop, World Breaker can trigger the hot new tool Kozilek’s Return…
… And it does all kinds of other stuff at the same time.
World Breaker generates card advantage the turn it comes into play. It is a kind of a Creeping Mold. Imagine, for instance, the advantage you would have playing the first World Breaker in an Eldrazi mirror match! Decks with an excess of lands can find World Breaker after World Breaker (and Eldrazi decks will often have an overabundance of lands in play). And the Reach even means something! Eldrazi players might find themselves beaten up by Mantis Riders or Thunderbreak Regents early on… World Breaker can help defend against those opponents.
On the other end of the spectrum is Endbringer:
Endbringer certainly seems awesome.
“Endbringer is of the school of Clockwork Beast.”
-Patrick
If it lives for several turns you can certainly accumulate a nice amount of card advantage.
But!
Endbringer is a card with no evasion, no inherent protection, and doesn’t generate card advantage the turn it comes into play. Certainly it can generate card advantage over time… But it asks for a lot of room before you can get there.
Worst yet, Endbringer is exactly the size to be killed by Roast 🙁
Michael and Patrick debate the finer points of World Breaker and Endbringer; love on Kozilek’s Return, and speculate generally on Oath of the Gatewatch’s rumored upcoming tools in “World Breaker is Hot; Endbringer is Not”.
