step you put a plus one plus one counter on each use you control of course you could play biogenicus in an ooze tribal deck but we've never had ooze tribal in standard it was just played as a standalone card essentially you just play it and make a news and then later maybe you have four man and you make another ooze and you slowly grow the oozes consuming blob does essentially the same thing if you're not playing who's tribal and really like pumping your entire team with biogenic uses plus one plus one counters it kind of does the same thing but better like if you can fill your graveyard a bit which we should be able to do since we're heading to innistrad this can easily be like a four or five conservatively when it comes down that makes a four or five every single end step that's a lot of power and toughness across multiple bodies free of the five mana investment so i think this card is probably pretty standard playable like we've seen similar cards that i would argue are a little bit worse see a decent amount of play in the past so i don't know why consuming blob couldn't do the same thing there's not really that much competition in the green five drops we got like frog hemoth which is powerful and aggressive a shia needs to sit out for a while but can do bonkers things battle mammoth gives you a bit of protection if it's targeted and killed you're gonna draw a card so that something but consuming bob arguably offers the most immediate value at all of these cars we've talked about how with so much removal running around in flexible removal and standard you really want threats that do something right away and sure you got to get to your end step but as long as you make it to your end step and your opponent doesn't immediately have instant speed removal you're getting two consuming blobs essentially before one card which means even if your opponent kills one of them they kill the consuming bob you're still going to have a tarmagoyf left over so i think this card offers a lot of power and standard although i do think you got to be able to fill your graveyard to really take advantage of it at least to some extent i'm not sure how good this will be if you're not focused on card types at all not focused on filling your graveyard at all the good news is i think we have plenty of ways to do this like surviving rotation we got stuff like warlock class and enchantment they can fill your graveyard with the second level we got egon we got blacks in search for blacks which can fill your graveyard so we got good stuff remaining in standard and we're going into innistrad we've already seen ren and six we've considered we've seen join the dance graveyard has always been a theme of innistrad so i would be absolutely shocked if we don't keep getting more ways to fill your graveyard and that could make consuming bob into a legitimate top tier threat in standard so i would be surprised if consuming blob was not somewhere between standard playable and even very good in standard in the right deck also in commander probably worth a news tribal like making multiple oozes if you're playing
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