Look, nobody plays him right now anyway. Can we just bend the rules and allow him to play any dragon, regardless of color? (definitely DIDN’T open Keiga and Jugan…)
There are only three dragons he can’t use, which asking for that really feels like it’s the same as asking for Liliana to be allowed to use all zombies. They’re probably not going to do it.
Though I feel like he might perhaps be more valuable if his abilities also worked on dinosaurs. It would definitely work to counterbalance how expensive dragons all are, and would allow him to work without having to make special color exception for him. I mean it’s not like people don’t confuse the two… see the flavor text from Angrath:
True, but that might be kinda fun! There are allies outside of white for G2, as well! And red dinosaurs for Huatli…and probably some other things for other PWs too.
Sarkhan and Arlinn are legacy walkers, so they are probably stuck in their legacy. Huatli losing out on the Dinos that create tokens, however is a mistake they engrained in the latest block…
that’d make him for fun to play for sure. I tried him out with my red and black masterpiece dragons and it was okay with his 2nd ability, but honestly if you own either Lily3 or Bolas they’re more entertaining (and effective) to play the new dragons with.
You don’t generally want to keep the kamigawa dragons alive long enough to utilize them with sarkhans 3rd ability, and lily3’s first ability if more effective than sarkhans 2nd
Honestly the best way to improve Sarkhan is to make his mana non-terrible. If he got +3 instead of +2 on R/B matches and kept his +1’s across the rest of the board he’d be playable. Give him Saheeli-style mana and he’s solidly good. His first ability is excellent, his ult wins the game on the spot if the deck is built correctly.
I mean, I don’t really care if he’s good or not. I just think poor Sarky should get to play with ALL the dragons. He deserves good things after what he’s been through…
just think of all the green dragons he used to get to play with, but now he can’t. You can even see him reaching for them in his artwork, but never being able to grasp them. A single tear falling from his glowing blood-red eyes.
If I were Narset, I’d be LIVID with Sarkhan… going back in time and taking away my khanship… making me subservient to a dragon that thinks subjugating humans is in our best interest…
Look, if we’re going to debate the pros and cons of Sarkhan’s Time Traveling Adventures, we need to acknowledge the fact that Ugin fudged up the balance of the plane by getting his butt kicked by Bolas. Without that, the Kahns and dragons would continue living in harmony and only cyclically murdering each other, instead of going to either extreme
Look, if we’re going to debate the pros and cons of Ugin getting his butt kicked by Bolas in episode 5, season 2 of Sarkhan’s Time Traveling Adventures, we have to add extra blame to Ugin.
Not just from the resulting awful soap-opera romance between Kahns and dragons that ruined the rest of season 2…but also because his epic-failure to Bolas allowed him to summon a purple zombie army that wiped out fantasy-egypt in season 3 AND made me discard my entire hand when I got hit by him in season 1 (yeah I know it we’re going backwards a season but it is Sarkhan’s Time Traveling Adventures).