Cloud Elemental Blue Card in Magic the Gathering

Video Transcript

"MIKE LOPEZ: Hi. I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village. And today, we'll be discussing the blue cards from the blue block of Magic: The Gathering. Here, we have Cloud Elemental. Now, as we see here, he's an elemental, hence the creature name. He is common from the basic set. He's also two colorless and a blue, which is three. Now, we're getting a 2/3. Once again, the math doesn't add up because it only costs you three. He also has flying, so it seems like you're getting a lot of benefits. However, there is one negative about Cloud Elemental. That's why you got him for cheaper than you should have, because Cloud Elemental can only block creatures with flying. That means not only does he have flying, but he cannot block ground troops. So, again, he is in the sky, but he cannot block ground troops. And it's this negative that made you able to play him for only a three converted mana cost, in which case, most of the times, if you would not have had that, it would have been four or higher. Also, the interesting about him is because of this cheapness, you're also getting an extra hit and an extra defense, and since flying is there, then instead of having just a 1/1 recurrently going over their troops to hit your opponent in the head, now you can have two points of damage every turn."