@Laurelle
Hopefully the splice mechanic will be revisited sometime soon, and in a less parasitic form. It has loads of design space: splice onto creature, splice onto equipment, splice onto instant/sorcery, splice onto activated ability, splice onto land (!), splice onto wizard/other tribal, etc.
Posted By:
nemokara
(4/2/2011 12:59:13 PM)
This is actually really good against Snapcaster Mage as it also trades with him, so it warrants at least a sideboard slot in decks that are running the colours in Modern, in my opinion.
Posted By:
Fenix.
(2/18/2012 12:37:55 PM)
@AXER - Then it comes into play under the control of the person who played the spell. If it put it into play under the control of the owner of the graveyard that the card was pulled from, the card would specify that.
Posted By:
Alsebra
(9/18/2012 9:03:42 AM)
Extirpate
It is another example of a time I wish that splice onto the arcane was splice onto instant or sorcery.
It could be decent in the right token deck with leyline of the meek and maybe doubling season or twilight drover.
Posted By:
Laurelle
(9/15/2009 10:18:37 AM)
I use this card in a black/blue Polymorph deck. It's a cheap way to get a creature out without requiring a creature in the deck other than Progenitus. Otherwise, it's not a great card but it can be useful with a Edge of Divinity
Posted By:
TheBigDrat
(9/9/2009 7:09:18 PM)
Single card exiling simply isn't enough. 1/1 Fliers that can't be used on turn one? I can see the resemblance at the Extirpate, but I'd question what deck could actually use these at all - even considering limited. I mean it looks decent considering fantasy situations, but in reality, this is a dead card to often, and when it isn't, it simply doesn't do anything significant enough to be worth a card slot.
Posted By:
AlphaNumerical
(8/31/2009 6:13:00 PM)
Great de***ive card name, don't you think?
Posted By:
Salient
(1/17/2012 3:13:01 AM)
It says you can choose any graveyard BUT then it does not specify under whose control the token comes in.
Posted By:
AXER
(12/6/2009 1:25:47 AM)
@Deathdark - 3 of these + Teysa, Orzhov Scion lets you exhile TWO creatures from the table top.
Sack three white creatures (that are also black) = exile target creature and get +3 all-white spirits. No endless cycle, but pretty sweet.
Posted By:
StyrofoamKing
(5/20/2013 3:04:31 PM)
Easily played at end of your opponents first turn with arid mesa.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(7/3/2013 6:04:28 PM)