Rust Pup - Blog Posts

Another fabulous card from the brothers war from an art and design standpoint. The rugged, sharp and rusted exterior really tells you enough about this creatures construction and the billowing smoke the pours from its chest cavity and mouth feeds nicely into both of its effects.

It's first effects is a rather generic cycle allowing you to add to the scrap heap and giving you the chance to find some treasure from the trash and its second feeds even further into this disposable and recyclable nature of this hound. Paying a red and 1 and both figuratively and literally relighting the flame in its heart to bring it back if only temporarily is another great example of art and effect crossing over to create a cohesive design and to paint a small picture of what this creature is.

Whilst not playable in some of my silly pet decks I have always had a soft spot for artifact creatures like this and can see myself building a deck just so he has somewhere to sit. For commanders I'm not sure who'd be the best mechanically but keeping on the themes of Artifacts Rose, Cutthroat Raider from the new fallout set feels fitting. Just feels, I'm sure there are way better cards that take advantage of this lovable rust pup but I'm a sucker for style over substance any day.