"I see that you have yet to realize the true power of the dark side..."
This beast of a card, takes your game from zero to sixty in record time. Combine with Sensei's Divining Top, preordain, Liliana Vess, or any library manipulation, and you will gain card advantage, and have relevant spells of your choice! The drawback is minor, if you build around it. Revealing a land card will cost you nothing. Combine with lifelink creatures, like vampire nighthawk, and the life loss can be minimized. The way I see it, it's greatness at minimal cost. 5/5 for sure.
@Jerry34: The ability will trigger twice. You choose the order of those abilities on the stack, so yes you would get two cards.
Posted By:
Zoltantf
(7/7/2011 4:02:28 PM)
@DragonLord132
Do you know how to play this game?
Posted By:
JStoermer
(10/3/2010 2:21:15 AM)
Really Timmyforever? Mr. "Go to every popular card ever and say its the worst card in the history of cards, and rate it a 0.5 out of 5", YOU'RE the one claiming everyone else is saying "pay attention to me"? Interesting.
Anyway, for those of you who say it's bad, it's truly, truly not. I've played with it in several decks and if it sticks (which is rare considering how big of a target it is), it's gonna win you the game most of the time. Drawing say, 3 more cards then your opponent throughout the game cannot simply be overstated. Almost the same thing as having you start with the full 7 and the other guy mulling to 4. Well, maybe not quite that, but it's close.
Oh and I rarely get killed by the thing, or have seen many others get killed by it. It's never revealing griselbrand or Emrakul, but more often land, cabal therapy, ponder, and the like. Not saying you won't get unlucky and flip a au... (see all)
Posted By:
Sessy
(1/18/2013 7:48:55 AM)
Sweet card. My cousin borrowed mine and never returned it. It was sent to on a Journey to Nowhere.
Posted By:
CatsAreCthala
(2/4/2010 7:42:38 PM)
Why does such an awesome card have to have such tragically awful art? That guy looks like a twerp.
EDIT: Ok, my foot's in my mouth. I just read that this was fashioned after a real-world HOF MtG champ (hence the "Bob" people are talking about in case some of you are wondering why people here are calling this card that). No offense intended to real-world Bob. They could have done something with the lighting/shadows to make a character with real-world Bob's face, but flattering and less twerpy.
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(7/19/2010 11:19:34 PM)
@ Gilgamesh3000
For Mono-Black Suicide, Bob is much better than Phyrexian Arena. Bob can attack for 2 each turn, can chump block, can be sacrificed to Cabal Therapy. Drawing a land, a Chalice of the Void, a Mox, or a Black Lotus with Bob is completely free. In a low mana curve deck, on average you'll only lose 1.5 life or so per turn. Of course Necro is a better drawing engine but it's restricted/banned and makes you wait for those cards.
This is one of the best black creatures ever printed and will be used in Vintage and Legacy decks for years to come.
Posted By:
makochman
(9/20/2009 11:22:07 AM)
@TimmyForever
I... Actually agree with you? This is weird. Anyway. The culture here seems to be that on every good/broken card, the comments go something like "OMG, this is the real noob test, show them this and Emrakul and blah blah blah." because as soon as people can recognize a card is good, they can berate others for not seeing it, right? Gotta love the hivemind. As for this card, it really is good if you know how to use it. Really. Alternately, if you don't like life-for-cards, fine. Don't play black. It's fine. Just because something is good in practice doesn't mean you have to enjoy playing with it. That's why we have 5 colors, people.
Posted By:
NoIHavent
(1/27/2013 6:12:28 AM)
This card is great, at any cost!
Posted By:
Paolino
(1/10/2012 8:47:48 AM)
See, one thing about Bob that I didn't get was that he was 4.6/5 stars, while Dark Tutelage is 3.5/5.
Their effects are the same, and enchantments are harder to get rid of than creatures. Tutelage costs 
more and can't attack, but is that worth a whole star??
But then it hit me: What if YOU want to get rid of the "Draw card and lose life" effect? What if you're at 2 life and don't want to risk it?
You either have to man up and take a chance with the drawing, or be main-decking Naturalize-esque spells. With the Confidant, if you're low on life, your opponent won't block it, because they think that he'll kill your himself. That's the time when you should do sneaky tricks (like Tainted Strike).
Posted By:
Ferlord
(1/27/2013 2:13:48 PM)
those "very specific decks" with low mana costs are usually very good decks. Which makes this a pretty good card.
Posted By:
LuckyMonkey2367
(8/8/2009 12:45:06 AM)