Mind Flayer | Ulitharid

[jmizzle7]

Mind Flayer NAME Ulitharid Water ELEMENT Water 2 COST 3 Creature TYPE Creature 2|2 STATS 3|4 Common RARITY Upgraded 56 | 38 BUY | SELL 1556 | 1159 5if CARD CODE 7gv WIKI PAGE: http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/cards-water/mind-flayer-ulitharid/ USES: Mind Flayers are cheap creatures, that can be played out fast - preferably before any opposing creature; and with the use of some spare , they can get rid of any ability they posess. Ulitharid gains additional stat increase for an additional cost. EXAMPLE DECK: by jmizzle7 Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 58v 58v 5fa 5fa 5if 5if 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 621 621 622 7k2 7q5 7q5 7q5 8pu

Discuss.

[Kamietsu]

Good creature. The upped is much better because it can survive a rain of fire, which can help a lot. The flying lobotomizer, such evil things when i don't have my Quints on my creatures.

[Essence]

The biggest problem with this card in a non-Rainbow context is that Water already has Freeze and Toadfish and will soon add Squids to it's repertoire.  Why remove a skill when you can just lock the creature up in ice and watch the infection kill it?

Even in Rainbows, they're probably going to get bumped in favor of Permafrost or Squids because with Phase Shield and Quintessence showing up in most rainbows these days, you'd rather use the Water-intensive Squid than the Aether-draining Ulitharid.

[icybraker]

Well, I tried both Arctic Octopus and Ulitharid in my Rainbow deck, and Ulitharid seems to work a lot better. I think the main reason why this is is because Arctic Octopus stops nasty creatures for a temporary time and a large cost. Ulitharid stops nasty abilities forever and it costs very little, even with all the other Aether items in a Rainbow deck. Sure the Octopus is useful, but once 4+ creatures appear, you're not going to freeze all of them. Its quanta consumption is also a problem. The Ulitharid is nimble, not very costly, has a decent attack, and a great ability that can destroy decks easily.

[dapol]

I personally don't really like to use them but can def see their potential.  hate when scorpio plays these guys...  I personally prefer the Lobo though.

[wralen]

This card has definitely won me games... in fact, I credit my last FG victory to this card (Osiris) for mind-nuking all the pharaohs.   

[kristoff]

i like the none upgraded version. looks like a hammer head shark <3

[RavingRabbid]

Mind Flayer is awesome. It can slow most enemies until you manage to set out more massive control.

[Ningo67]

This card looks so epic and it has a really unique ability

[Monox D. I-Fly]

Btw, what does this card resemble? A merman?

[Higurashi]

Illithids are a race in D&D, all of them possessing psionic powers that gave them a nickname born from fear: "mind flayers". They are humanoids with squid-like heads. The original mind flayers were created by Gary Gygax (co-creator of D&D), who said that one of his inspirations for them was the cover painting of the book "The Burrowers Beneath" by Brian Lumley. That book is grounded in the Cthulhu Mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft, which is most likely the first occurrence in modern culture of squids with psychic influence.

[SpikeSpiegel]

Illithids are a race in D&D, all of them possessing psionic powers that gave them a nickname born from fear: "mind flayers". They are humanoids with squid-like heads. The original mind flayers were created by Gary Gygax (co-creator of D&D), who said that one of his inspirations for them was the cover painting of the book "The Burrowers Beneath" by Brian Lumley. That book is grounded in the Cthulhu Mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft, which is most likely the first occurrence in modern culture of squids with psychic influence.

And they have automatic brain estraction if they can make a contact attack with their tentacles (for 1 turn)

Pretty hard opponents in D&D.