Is that a game winning Banefire? I absolutely LOVE this card! It pretty much counters uncounterable kill spells like Banefire
Posted By:
Arkelen
(11/14/2009 10:42:41 AM)
This card is incredibly powerful ("MY planeswalker") but it has such a large mana cost that most people will remove cards from their hand to cast it. Card advantage, however is critical for control decks, since you need an answer to almost every spell your opponent casts, so I'd say that unless the spell is a game winner, this card isn't worth it.
Posted By:
statiefreez
(3/16/2010 4:13:08 AM)
Where is its counterpart, "gain control of target creature spell"?
Posted By:
Qazior
(11/13/2009 7:18:27 AM)
One of THE BEST blue spells in EDH. No card I'd rather have in hand when someone drops that entwined Tooth and Nail or Genesis Wave for 20.
Posted By:
MrPink343
(3/2/2011 9:30:55 PM)
banefire should just get swerved
this is best for arts/enchs/walkers
Posted By:
Tezz
(4/9/2010 4:46:28 AM)
Better version of Spelljack
Posted By:
Hokeymon
(12/9/2009 5:15:45 AM)
heh, oracle rules says you can use it to steal planeswalkers as well.
Posted By:
Tommy9898
(2/28/2010 11:33:22 PM)
OMG AMZAZAZING!!
Posted By:
Omniance
(10/12/2009 12:09:00 AM)
@ Qazior: Gather Specimens.
Okay, can I commandeer an opponent's counterspell and change the target of the counterspell to itself?
Because targets are chosen as spells are played, not as they resolve, right? Which means even though I couldn't cast a self-targeting counterspell into an empty stack, I could change the target of a counterspell already on the stack to itself with this... right?
Posted By:
Fictionarious
(1/7/2010 5:59:01 PM)
Not that amazing. Way over-hyped. Think about it, end game you're only going to have your other good blue cards in hand. You're not going to want to discard your 2 sphinxes for stealing a nicol bolas, you'd rather just have a counterspell. The other problem with the card is the discards in the alt cost must be blue, so it requires a mono blue or MAYBE a dual blue deck.
It really boils down to, you have to build a deck around this card the same way you do with, say, Warp World and it just doesn't match up. This card will not win you the game, so there's no reason to build a deck around it. 2.5/5 for being over-costed, incredibly specific, and worse than spelljack because it can't target creatures.
Posted By:
OpenSeasonNoobs
(5/31/2010 11:50:25 PM)