Review of Aboroth **

Just another big creature.
The secret with creatures like Aboroth is that you have to give them something in order for them to be good.  For example, if you can give Aboroth flying, or trample, or make it unblockable, then you may have some success with this card.  However, that this card slowly withers away is to its detriment.  As a high mana cost card, you can’t count on it to still be powerful on the battlefield in a longer, and hard fought game of commander.   There is also another problem.  Aboroth can be blocked by a 1/1.  Sure the 1/1 dies, but several cards would generate a token every turn that could block Aboroth until it was no longer a factor.  Thus, this card is essentially worthless unless you can beef it up in some way.

Review of Kalonian Behemoth ** What a Waste of a Rare!

I can totally see how this card may seem attractive at first. I mean, do the math pay 7 mana get a 9/9. It’s simple addition, but you probably forgot that a 9/9 can be blocked by a 1/1. And, usually you don’t get a creature with greater power and toughness than the casting cost. In fact, thinking of it that way is too easy, as in this case Kalonian Behemoth, its shroud ability hurts it rather than helps it. This card needs to be made to have trample, or to be unblockable, and its shroud ability prevents you from doing that. I wouldn’t throw it out if you have one though, as the redemption of the value of this card is that if you use it as a defender, it is very powerful. So, if you do cast it, then I would use it as a defender only. However, really to me that this card is a 9/9 to me almost means that it annihilates creature every turn, provided that the opponent doesn’t have something like deathtouch.