#typal

Unlike Deranged hermit, liege of the hollows has a recorded price record of below fifty cents in 2013. That means there was a time that this card was true bulk. Did you purchase your copies when they were under a buck? If you did then you could probably sell them for ten dollars or more right now. Even so, the card was almost fifty bucks during the reserved list spikes of 2021. After the crash the card settled at about 5 dollars and it has not been true bulk since then. Possibly it will never be bulk again. Why? First, Mark Rosewater is a huge promoter for the squirrel creature type. On blogatog, Mark Rosewater even has a squirrel named Sally that functions as an avatar and answers questions. Bloomburrow is also going to be released at the end of the month so there is a lot of hype for the ten supported animal tribes in the set. Squirrel is one of those tribes and even got a commander deck that has a squirrel theme. There have also been a number of typal squirrel commanders so people are anxious to build different squirrel decks. Will liege of the hollows make the cut in these decks? I do not think the liege is an absolute staple in squirrel decks but flexing older reserved list cards in your deck is certainly a choice you can make. The squirrel cards I'm bloomburrow support a food archetype but many of the cards support tokens in general which could mean either food tokens or squirrel tokens. Liege of the hollows makes squirrel tokens so it fits the token theme of bloomburrow. However, liege of the hollows takes work. You need a sacrifice outlet so you can maximize the number of tokens you can make. It is not fun if your opponent destroys your liege when you have no available mana. It is even worse if they have a ton of open mana and make tokens using your card. I normally do not like double edged cards like this especially since squirrels do not have a strong sacrifice theme. Albeit, you can build a squirrel deck with a sac theme as food tokens need to be sacrificed to utilize. Both food decks and squirrel decks will be eating food after this set! Liege of the Hollows has a plethora of new commanders that this card can slot into. Hazel of the rootbloom and the odd acorn game could both include the liege and it would perform decently in either deck. These cards just got revealed alongside the squirrel commander deck so it is not a surprise that squirrel related cards are spiking. I expect the cards to settle after the hype for these new toys dies down. I would be remiss to not mention chatterfang or toski as other homes for liege of the hollows. Even in the bloomburrow main set you have a typal squirrel commander. I just saw a spoiler for a commander that gives all squirrels menace. Yes, attention is currently on these guys but how long will they stay in the spotlight? Is liege of the hollows a flash in the pan or will the price hold and go up even more?

I absoluTELY had the same fears when I first started this whole experience. I thought “Shit shit Im going to be on medication all my life. im fucked. I hate this. I dont want this anymore.” And maybe you will be. But don’t begin to think for a moment that this means you are a lesser person anymore. You’re no different than the diabetic who needs insulin. You are lacking chemicals in your brain or in your body and you need extra help to obtain it. That’s all there is. Yes. I am not denying there is an absolutely horrible stigma surrounding mental illness. And for schizophrenia/and others, it’s pretty bad too. I am not denying that there will be people out there who will discriminate against you. And what you need to do is remove yourself from those people (if they are jobs, teachers, even family members) because you do not deserve that. You deserve help. Much like the amputee who may require prosthetic. Much like the diabetic who needs insulin. Much like the person who has a fever and needs some medication to ease the suffering. It boils down to you require some aid and you deserve it. Please do not give into the fear mongering of “Yeah its terrible out there....And you should hide from it.” Because that will only perpetuate the idea that you’re SUPPOSED to be ashamed of this. You’re SUPPOSED to be ashamed of yourself. I promise you, remaining quiet will never benefit you or others. Please speak out. Please get the help you deserve. Please stand up and be an advocate for the people who feel they can’t be. It will ALWAYS be up to you and you alone on helping yourself. And you may be surprised that you are helping others simply by telling your story.

Do you see the art on this guy? Marjhan is huge. That whale looks miniscule compared to this titanic beast and that is accurately reflected in the power and toughness. An 8/8 is huge especially in the older days of the game but even today that is a stat line to be feared. Of course, this card had to have restrictions especially since blue does not typically get cards with base power and toughness above its mana value without a drawback. In fact, this card has many limitations. First, it has islandhome which is an outdated keyword that they used to put on a bunch of aquatic creatures. The new blue moon merfolk in modern horizons 3 can ensure all your opponents have islands and if you are playing blue you should have an island but sometimes it will come up. If you manage to get Marjhan to attack then it will not untap during the next turn. It does have an interesting ability toi get around that though. You can sac a creature at upkeep which means that this card is a very limited sacrifice engine in mono blue. The card shatters the color pie with the other ability by dealing damage to creatures. The cost is enormous but it is there in a pinch. I, often forget, how much direct damage blue had at the start of the game. This is another all star in the mono blue burn deck as a potential finisher. Obviously, that is just a meme deck but it could be fun. The card is not good enough in the modern era as anything unique it could do in mono blue can be done by an artifact in a more efficient way. Perhaps we should hold out to the serpent or sea creature typal support that could show up in the future but I wouldn't hold my breathe. I wouldn't want you to take a bath with this serpent as I do not have hope for the future. It is big but there are so many colorless eldrazi that size doesn't matter. In terms of price, you can get one for less than a dollar and this card only spiked in early 2021 alongside almost every reserved list bulk card. Five bucks might be as high as it ever gets barring a huge buyout attempt. It quickly returned to bulk and I believe it will stay bulk for the foreseeable future.

Oh, and I'm constantly catching myself calling the enchantment Saproling Nursery. 😜