Purple-Crystal Crab This is your public service announcement that Purple-Crystal Crab, a functional Oculus reprint you want for your ill-advised All You Can Eat Crab Buffet tribal deck, exists
It's no longer a top-tier 1-drop, but you'll still find it hanging around Vintage Cube these days
I particularly love Weathered Sentinels, since I-Rex doesnt care about the defender keyword and will happily pick up its vigilance, reach and trample ability
Referring to a character costing N ink as an N-drop, the dream is to achieve a curve with a one-drop on turn one, a two-drop on turn two, a three-drop on turn three, and so on before running out of cards
his 5 power is pretty easy to boost up to get to the 3-hit mark (7 power across three hits = 21 lethal commander damage), and because of the sheer amount of Auras we'll get on him it's not hard to get to the 2-hit mark (11 power)
this was absent from my Burn article last week but it's a critical point to consider