How come when people get excited for a new spoiled card, it always

Harsh Mentor is perfectly ok.

>>53688221

>Unplayable garbage

It's a fucking sideboard card and that's where it's played just like everyone expected.

No one reasonable was expecting this to be mainboarded or even to be on par with Eidolon in sheer power

It's a 2/2 for 2 with an ability that's very applicable against some decks. It's far from a bad card.

It won't see play in every deck but it's far from unplayable garbage.

>>53688348
But anon, every card has to be a fucking bomb or magic will die!

To be fair I didn't expect Top to get banned in Legacy. It's seen some sideboard play still, which is still neat.

The only reason it's not $5 is because top got banned.

2/2 for a 2 drop is perfectly acceptable and that ability means either your opponent uses a kill spell on it or it might damage him, if neither of these happen it's still a 2/2 for 2, not great but it's acceptable as a low cost red creature.

>>53688857
Wow great argument fagtron you sure convinced me with those hot opinions

You perfectly know that the design dogma from Theros onwards is flawed as admitted by Stoddard himself, but I guess that being retarded comes hand to hand with being a wotc apologist
>inb4 merely pretending

>>53690423
>inb4merely pretending
You fucking knew he was being sarcastic you little autistic faggot.

>>53688221
This is some powercreeped shit,it's not even a symmetrical effect

>>53691427
>2/2 for 2 with a contingent ability
>powercreeped
Nah.

>>53691795
come on man, it's a red bear with no downsides and a really strong effect against certain decks

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>>53688221
>that sloppy writing

A much better way of writing it would be

>Whenever an opponent activates an ability of an artifact, creature or land on the battlefield that doesn't require mana Harsh Mentor deals 2 damage to that player.

Did MtG fire all the people who knows English or something?

>>53691795
in Red it really is

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>>53692012

>>53692012
Nice bait

>>53690423
Are you kidding or actually retarded? It's very obvious he wasn't being serious you dum dum.

>>53692039
>>53692045
Stop replying to frogposters.

>>53692003
>bear
Already a downside.
>>53692018
Yet few lists run it.

>>53692132
Still salty about the election?

>>53692012

Memes aside, they really should start saying "mana-producing ability" instead of "mana ability" because literally every new player I've seen guesses the meaning wrong.

>>53695179
Not all abilities that produce mana are mana abilities. Deathrite shaman is a good example of this; its ability isn't a mana ability, because it has a target.

>>53692191
Ok, i kek'd. But try not to /pol/ into this.

inb4 reddit & tumblr

>>53695179
And thats part of being new. A lot of newbies don't even understand the combat phase.

>>53695179
>>53695430

Even the old name "mana source" was better.

>>53695247

99.9% of them are, and the extremely few exceptions can be sorted out when they come up.