cane thoughts

I am one of the people of the opinoin that the cane is a bit on the strong side of were it should be. Now I run a \'Kuga Cannon deck, my entire deck is desighned to take maximum advantage of the Canon, the creatures are eather imune (microslime, ooze, red goop) or desighned to be replaceable (goop, agent of mantis, elementals via elementalist) so I understand the pros and cons and power of effect based sniping, especialy for big hits. and the Cane is a big hit, now its true the other sniper effects have a higher potential damage than the cane, they are also much more dificult to feild effectively. The swords are signigantly more expensive, \'kuga cannon needs creature suport or it is useless.

The thing to me is cane is SOOO cheap to play (yeah 12 mana sounds impresive, but when its split like that, it realy is very cheap), and for 35 damage (which is a major break point). Now making the oponent draw a card is not good, its not signifigantly worse than losing 45 damage worth of atack, or an activation cost (which adds up suprisingly). In short I actualy love the theory, an effect sniper whose penalty is that it helps your enemy some, its great. I would be cool with either a drop in damage so its not at the 35 breakpoint, or an increase in cost (either 1 or 2 across the board).

and Amp, next to dead, is not dead, a next to dead 45/1 can still be used to kill an agent of mantis or skell bird or (insert critter here), next to dead is an extra atack, which is good.