Posts tagged aggro

Guardian of the Guildpact, Aven Riftwatcher, and Kor Skyfisher are
2/3’s. Steamcore Weird and Dimir Infiltrator are 1/3’s. Aggro decks
run a lot of 2/2’s and 3/2’s. The creature curve, for the most part,
stops at that magic number 3.

Creature combat in Extended is an interesting situation. So many of us
choose our creatures not for their physical stats but for their ETB
abilities, which we then exploit with Blink or Harvest for card
advantage. The bodies we are left with on the battlefield themselves,
however, are nothing impressive, and often rattle sabres at each other
long into the end game without doing a whole lot of fighting.

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