If you stabilize and are able to protect Oko, he can continue to tick up in loyalty counters. That further contributes to the number of cards needed to effectively eliminate him.Įven though he doesn’t draw you cards, he still creates a kind of pseudo-card advantage for you by forcing your enemies to burn through cards of their own. Many of his abilities are more oppressive and push games to a slower pace. This means your opponents usually need to invest a lot of cards to get rid of him. Oko doesn’t possess any ability that allows you to do this, but he does, in a way, force your opponent to draw more cards to deal with him. He gives you a pseudo-card advantage.Ĭard advantage usually means you’re able to draw extra cards. This increases your lead even more, and smacks your opponent down. This way, you can rapidly build a decent army out of nothing more than food tokens.Īlternatively, you can turn opponents’ creatures into elks and trade your food for them. But this is way more useful than you might expect.Įach food token you create can be turned into a 3/3 elk with Oko’s second ability. Making food is actually useful.Īt a glance, some people might scoff at Oko’s first ability, which creates a food token. His decent amount of starting loyalty counters combined with a +2 ability makes it so he gains loyalty counters fast, making it even harder for him to be removed. He also comes in hot (in more ways than one *wink**wink*) with four loyalty counters, which brings him out of range for most burn spells your opponents might hit him with. Much of the time, players found ways to get him on the board on turn two, then started immediately making food with him. Despite being such a powerful card, Oko only costs you three mana to cast, which means you can get him out pretty early on in the game. Here’s Why Oko is so Good At three mana, he’s extremely cheap. Here’s the brief lifespan he got to enjoy in a few different formats before swiftly becoming the next victim of the almighty ban hammer: As a result, he ended up being banned in the Standard, Pioneer, Brawl, Modern, and Historic formats. However, as he was played more, it was found that he had way more power than people thought at first. On paper, he doesn’t look as awesome as he actually is. When he was initially spoiled, he actually didn’t see a lot of hype. He’s a mythic that was released in the Throne of Eldraine set. And all of this has nothing to do with the fact that he’s just dang good-looking. Oko is a card that is loved by many…and hated by even more.
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