Group Consensus pt.1

[Spikepit]

Is {Essence of the Wild} a good card and why?

[Bookmeister]

Is {Essence of the Wild} a good card and why?

No, by the next turn you should have 7 mana and be able to play a more powerful creature and so on every turn after. I would never play this creature.

[Spikepit]

For the purpose of the Devils Advocate, what if token generators were involved?

[EvACiDe]

That's exactly what I was going to say. With token generators, this card can be pretty decent. Turning all your saprolings into 6/6's?

[The1337Magician]

Then you could populate your 6/6s? Are they tokens still that are copies or are they just copies.

[EvACiDe]

Then you could populate your 6/6s? Are they tokens still that are copies or are they just copies.

Pretty sure they're just copies but still, saps are easy to get out.

[All-Mana Mania]

I like it IMO. You run 3 of em and 1-2 drops ^.^

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

He's pretty amazing with {Gelatinous Genesis}.

[Silent1236]

Yeah, but say they've got a big scary Planeswalker and you want to drop your {Woodfall Primus} and be done with it, then what? 

[Agrus Kos, Enforcer of Truth]

Yeah, but say they've got a big scary Planeswalker and you want to drop your {Woodfall Primus} and be done with it, then what?

You swing out with your 6/6s and hope the planeswalker isn't Vraska.

[Moneekahh]

I tried really hard to make a standard deck based around him when Innistrad was first out. I used token generators and things of that nature. It was not good. But I'm sitting here holding on to my {Essence of the Wild}s in hope that one day they will be playable, because I really do love the card. Lol

[Spikepit]

I also love this card but also see its unplayability (I love making up words). That's why I wanted this discussion.

[Gorzo]

It's a 6-drop. That mana cost alone limits it severely in standard, and makes it unplayable in eternal formats. It's a super fun 6 drop, and is great in a token commander deck, though. But it's just too slow for competitive formats.

[Bozo_Law]

He's pretty amazing with {Gelatinous Genesis}.

On small ones. I once had an EDH game with all of my lands out where I hardcast it for x=18.

[Darius]

You could  {Donate} him and then play  {Leyline of Singularity} haha