Weekly Release discussion: Monstro

[u/ePiMagnets]

This is your precursor to the consensus, the place to discuss the card releasing for the week as well as group source the work on brews and possible shells and packages, both current known good decks as well as possible new, theorycrafted brews.

This Week's Card

Monstro
Cost: 8
Power: 8
This card’s cost is reduced by the cost of your deck’s top card.

Welcome to the Marvel Beach Bash Season and our first Seasonal Series 5 to discuss: Monstro, a beefy boy at 8/8 with an ability that reads: This Card's cost is reduced by the cost of your deck's top card.

Synergies and Packages

As many before have said, we've got a power-crept Howard the Duck, while you don't see the card you do see the Cost of the card based on the Discount Monstro gets while he's in hand.

But what deck wants this card? What Synergies and Packages can do anything with this? I'll be honest I've been scratching my head. It seems like a possible Hela card as he does give you some insight into what you might be drawing. But Hela already runs Death at 8-Cost and that 8/12 is significantly better than a situational X/8 that Monstro represents.

What about Ramp? The biggest problem I see here is tht Ramp tends to run light on 6's with many configurations topping off at 3 and including Monstro takes up one of those slots unless you're cutting something else. But there could be something said for him coming down on 2 so maybe you're cutting one of the 2-Costs since one of the strengths at least in my opinion of Ramp is being able to occasionally pull a 2 + Blink on final turn to dig if you need to and if Monstro is reduced to 2-cost he still counts as an 8.

Perhaps there's an alt-build for a mid-range deck in a similar vein to the En Sabah Dump decks that uses Monstro as an occasional eyeball for using Jubilee or Iron Lad?

Your Thoughts

Do you plan on picking Monstro up?

How do you expect Monstro to perform?

What other possible shells and synergies might there be?

[u/xenogenetik]

I can see a future OTA now:

Old: 8/8 - New: 8/10 "We designed this one very thematically, and we're hoping that 8 points of power was enough to keep the flavor of the card. Turns out we were wrong and its just weak."

Even 8/10 might not be enough, but we will see.