Vaclav
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Well yea, sure, but it could do that without being a ridiculously good creature against non-flyers. The under costed body plus endurance makes it a very good creature against everyone. The anti-flying just destroys flyer decks if they don't have a removal/silence for it.
I tried playing some shadow/primal decks with flyers, and if a sandstorm hit the table that I didn't have spot removal for, I just lost. Period. Even when I had a removal, half the time they'd draw a 2nd one before I could close out the game. Or, their other threats would soak some removal.
I mean.. it's a 5/6 with endurance for 4 power. That alone is already better then practically every other creature in the game, or it was. I'm not familiar with the expansions.
That's sort of the point I was trying to make though - they wanted it pushed enough to be a "given" for Time decks to really curtail flying getting out of hand.
I didn't start until well after Beta, so I can't quote beta tweaking but I've got a hunch that there was some serious flying shenanigans that were going on before it landed at it's final stats.