Infiltrate!

Benthic Infiltator by Mathias Kollros

Blue-black was no doubt the color of ingest in BFZ (if we exclude exiling noncreature spells).Black has more powerful ingest creature, but blue has evasion ingest creature. Personally, I prefer blue's ingester because your processing will be guaranteed, while you can splash black's ingester in any black deck.

If you followed some articles about BFZ, you might encounter questions regarding ingest / processor ratio. Most processors are fine card without their processing ability, that's their plus, but unless you can trigger them, I think there are better alternative. Unfortunately, I also don't have a lot of clue about what the right ratio is, but I've seen people ingesting so many of my cards without doing anything about it (honestly, that still puts pressure, and having your bomb ingested is not fun). I myself feel that its easier for you to be overloaded with processors, but very few ingesters, that's why I consider blue's ingester, which have better chance to ingest multiple cards over few turns to be more valuable.

Well, good luck trying those "alternative" eldrazi theme in the set!

BFZ's Best of Brawls

This post come from a simple curiosity: is Tajuru Beastmaster a good card?

Some of you might already know do you like it or not, I got couple of it during prerelease but I was hesitant to put it into my library. I've seen people appreciate it, I've also seen people giving it bad rating. So, I tried to peek a little into the Gatherer, and sorts BFZ's cards by their power. I don't take note of rares because you won't see them often in limited.

1st: Breaker of Armies
2nd: Eldrazi Devastator 
3rd: Bane of Bala Ged, Ruin Processor, Plated Crusher
4th: Deathless Behemoth
5th: Tajuru Beastmaster, Ulamog's Despoiler
6th: ton of 4-power creatures

Breaker, Bane, Crusher, Behemoth, and Despoilers are uncommons, while Devastator and Ruin Processor costs 8 mana and 7 mana respectively, so the chances are, if you can put Tajuru Beastmaster early enough, it will dominate the battlefield as the biggest creature for a some turns (and, more importantly, as a defender, a role Territorial Balloth have in-tendency to fill), and he even have an upside of Ally synergy.

So yeah, I think he's good enough to fill that 6-drop slot in your next green draft deck. Of course there are nonrare alternative for that spot (with arguably different or better role), but for size, Beastmaster's the beast.