i have lost many games due to a first turn hymm + dark ritual or a second turn hymm. essentially a game ender at 2 cmc, especially for many players without a means of countering.
Posted By:
jyang74
(2/22/2010 9:10:57 PM)
I've never seen a card make my opponents cringe so consistently as Hymn to Tourch. Anyone who doesn't believe in this card's effectiveness (a handful out of a hundred and fifty or so who rated this card) probably hasn't had it cast on them much, or made a serious discard deck and see how effective it is against so many other types of decks.
Posted By:
Smoked_Peasant
(9/1/2010 12:23:11 PM)
This can completely break a hand your opponent probably could have won with. FANTASTIC discard spell, fantastic black spell, fantastic, fantastic card, period.
Posted By:
ratchet1215
(8/27/2009 9:47:20 AM)
DISCARD THOSE LANDS. YES! YES!!
Posted By:
goldbones
(7/20/2009 12:28:28 PM)
Along with Hypnotic Specter and Mind Twist, this is atop the hierarchy of discard. 2 Cards at random for 2 mana? Hell yes.
Posted By:
Powereslave
(11/16/2009 1:48:54 PM)
This destroys Mind Rot.
Posted By:
Gear61
(12/23/2009 8:30:20 PM)
yea you definitely cant f with the hymn
Posted By:
LeMaK
(12/18/2009 6:57:57 AM)
Having just built a deck around this card, I'm very, very surprised it's still legal – I'm of the opinion that it should be banned across the board but restricted in Vintage, simply because it's one of those cards that has so much going for it for so little mana that there's almost no reason for a deck running black not to use it. 2 CMC card advantage – compared to the baseline established with Divination and Mind Rot – is more powerful than Wizards seems to be comfortable with; adding on to that the enormous number of ways your opponent may be screwed after those two random discards just makes this unbelievable.
Never really having played a dedicated black discard deck before, and not having played at all in years, I'd forgotten how firmly this card can lock down a game. As if a card advantage for 2 wasn't enough, your opponent may very well have discarded their only two lands, or their only two non-lands, or one of their critical co... (see all)
Posted By:
Lyoncet
(2/26/2011 11:00:10 AM)
Turn one: Dark ritual to Hypnotic Specter
Turn two: swing with specter, Hymn to Tourach
Turn three: Swing with specter, Mind twist. Goodbye enemy hand.
Or if you have two rituals you can just mind twist them right out of the gate . . .
Posted By:
faisjdas
(1/20/2010 7:00:53 PM)
Quinton Hoover, best art for Hymn. Always will be.
Posted By:
TokenPlayer
(1/29/2010 2:17:15 PM)