I just put one of these in my Mimerplasm Dredge EDH deck. Best discard outlet ever for the deck, and completely hoses anyone playing green/blue at the tables. My friends all now hate my deck more than when i was just using tooth and nail to get triskelion and mikeaus.
also played againsts a Nath EDH deck that had one of these...now i sympathis for my friends
Posted By:
LowKey49
(6/19/2012 3:10:54 PM)
I love this card. It fits so well in almost all my black or black/red johnny decks... I just wish I could afford it. I wish it wasn't impossible to afford a play set...
10/5
Posted By:
Eluem
(7/5/2012 8:35:46 PM)
Ok...sometimes the Oracle guys need to step back and realize that their updates make much LESS sense than the actual card text. Even on the old-school cards.
Posted By:
DyadyaIstvan
(7/16/2009 12:54:43 PM)
Brain = EXPLODED.
Posted By:
Mike-C
(12/19/2011 1:46:34 PM)
I love when you have to read the card itself to figure out what it does because the oracle text is so needlessly complicated and confusing that it's not even worth reading.
Posted By:
Laguz
(4/26/2010 4:52:03 PM)
It's like the auto disruptor against a combo deck.
Combo versus reanimator?
Could be useful. Works for you and against them...until they YawgWin you. :
Posted By:
kusumoto
(6/12/2009 11:03:13 AM)
...the f*ck does it do? I would ban this from my playgroup if anyone gave a sh*t about Legends.
Posted By:
Shadoflaam
(2/27/2011 10:42:18 AM)
What am I missing here?
According to me this card says:
Whenever a player draws a card, except fort the one during his draw step, that player discards his hand and puts the top card of his library into his or her library.
But, when reading all the comments, apparently the card drawn via Chains of Mephistopheles itself doesn't count as additional card draw? Why not?
Posted By:
Lord_Sauron
(1/1/2011 5:34:30 AM)
so basically you discard your hand and lose your library. that a pretty powerful card for cmc2. great errata guys...
Posted By:
BambooNickel
(10/5/2009 11:55:33 AM)
Against Brainstorm the effect is discard 3 cards instead of drawing them. Once your opponent has no cards left, they are locked out of drawing any extras anymore. because, it says INSTEAD. If a player has no cards in hand, and then they brainstorm, they get no cards. 0. Then.. yeah they mill top 3 cards. Lets say they Brainstorm with 5 other cards in hand, you discard 3 of them, leaving them with 2 cards, which they then place on top of their library. then they draw 3 cards, giving them 1 extra card. If they brainstorm with 4 other cards in their hand, they would discard 3 of them, put 0 on top of their library, then draw 3 cards. but basically this removes the point of brainstorming to begin with. When your opponent actually realizes what this demonic thing has just done to their hand they will probably refrain from dumping their hand again. Trick is this will probably discard any counterspells that they have, and then you can launch some more discard spells. it ... (see all)
Posted By:
Hovercraft
(9/4/2010 1:23:42 PM)