This card is deadly because you don't have to reveal the card you take. Sure, you loose half your life, bur that's just how black works. You pay life to get power, but for all you know, you might be tutoring a Platinum Angel, or maybe one of your powerful black cards, that you couldn't choose between when making the deck, and decided to put the Death Wish in thair slot instead.
Posted By:
GrimjawxRULES
(10/27/2009 1:01:51 AM)
@Kyonshee
Looking forward to casting Death Wish five times to assemble Exodia the Forbidden One?
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(3/5/2012 9:38:14 AM)
Masterful card. Too deadly to be used by a novice mage. The flavor matches the play text, art and card name perfectly. I wish the quote was attributed to whoever that demon is in the art. My first wish, however, is that this card didnt have such an unfair draw back compared to Burning Wish.
Posted By:
Gilgamesh3000
(7/27/2009 12:51:39 PM)
Is it possible to add a card from a different card game entirely? I do apologize if this is to much off topic.
Posted By:
Kyonshee
(2/20/2012 10:26:49 AM)
versatile, dangerous, cheap
Posted By:
balla628
(10/10/2009 3:10:41 PM)
Most flavorful wish if you ask me, because it is true to its flavor text. You really get power, but at the price of half your life.
Posted By:
Arachnos
(1/25/2013 2:08:46 PM)
Could be a vintage/legacy tutor if you leave a copy of what you need in sideboard. Consider using lot of very specific hate if you can stand the {1}{B}{B} cost tacked onto it. This would probably be a good helper in a Tendrils of Agony deck. Keep a copy of Tendrils + some other combo pieces (Yawgmoth's will being a great example in vintage) and then you can get it out of sideboard for free plus you get to pretend you have 4 copies in the deck.
Half your life doesn't matter if you just won the game.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(3/8/2013 10:41:03 AM)
You need Mind Over Matter, a land enchanted with Fertile Ground, a Vedalken Orrery, and Tamiyo, the Moon Sage's Emblem on the field, and a Pull From Eternity and Death Wish in your hand.
Tap your land for {B}{B}, then discard a card to untap it. The discarded card comes back to your hand (this means infinite mana of any colors). Tap again for {W}{W}, cast Death Wish for something to keep your life up, like Children of Korlis, Platinum Emperion, or Healing Salve. Use Pull From Eternity to put Death Wish back into your hand via the graveyard. Use infinite mana to cast the wished card (at instant speed). Repeat with any card you own.
You can even play lands instantly by wishing Fervor and Walking Atlas, perhaps with Amulet of Vigor.
So what do you do with your ... (see all)
Posted By:
PhantomDust
(5/31/2013 2:18:36 AM)
Stick this onto a Panoptic Mirror and have any card out to negate life loss. You figure out the rest.
Posted By:
MizziumSculptor444
(10/6/2013 3:25:53 PM)
I wonder why no one used this in place of burning wish in long.dec (a vintage storm deck developed by pro player mike long that used burning wish to effectively run 4 Yawgmoth's will, and use that to build up a storm count of 10 and kill with a lethal tendrils of agony with a disgusting amount of consistency) i don't think the double black in the cost is restrictive, so it has to be the life loss, but why does that matter if your winning that turn? There must be a reason.
Posted By:
Lazrbeams
(2/23/2014 7:28:38 PM)