Giant Vulbor, the cleaner
upper of discard decks. Why? Because of his power. His ability to
discard cards or remove energy for a cheap price is very
good.
For example, if you are playing a
discard Cald deck. You and your opponent are down to there last
Magi. You have out Sinder. Your opponent has one creature in play
and a lot of energy on his magi. You play a Heat Lens and a Gaint
Vulbor. You use heat lens to knock out a card form your opponent's
hand. Being that you have been mercylessly pounding your opponents
hand with Vulbor, Heat Lens, Orish(maybe), Epik(maybe), your
opponent probably has about 1 or 2 cards in his hand. Seeing this
you take your Giant Vulbor and Mind Shock the one creature in play
now having 1 or 2 cards in your hand, as your opponent, you can do
one of 3 things, either a) You only have one card in your hand so
you watch your helpless little creatures mind shake back and forth
continously, b) You have 2 cards in your hand so you discard them
to save your poor creature, or c) you have 2 cards in your hand
but they are cards you really need so you let your poor defensless
creature's mind get picked at by a G. Vulbor, CREATURE ABUSER!
Hehe... Your opponent will most likly choose c), if they have two
sense left in there head from all those mind boggling Mind Shocks.
You can now use Sinders power to pump G. Vulbor back up to full.
Your Magi just paid 1 energy to severly weaken or kill one of your
opponent's creatures. Next turn you can do the same thing then
attack the magi(That is if the creature isn't a Collosussm,
Ormagon ect) with a full energy Giant Vulbor. Your opponent has a
2, or 3 cards in his hand a weakened magi and no creatures(if they
didn't play any during his/her turn). And your Magi only paid a
total of 10 energy to do all this(including playing G. Vulbor and
using Heat Lens). This can also work with Tryn, Gar, Fossik, maybe
even Pruitt.
This is part of the reason why G.
Vulbors are never left out of Discard decks. They are sometimes
even considered more important in discard decks than the Vulbor
itself. So when building a discard deck always make sure to
include 3 Giant Vulbor. Oh yeah, BTW another + to G. Vulbor is he
is a uncommon, unlike his rare relitive Vulbor.
