Great Card to add a punch to any life gain deck.
With Sunspring Expedition and Rest for the Weary your turn 5 could easily turn a small creature into a big fatty. Add Wall of Reverence and Felidar Sovereign for crazy shenanigans.
Posted By:
Razmataz24
(3/22/2010 2:05:23 AM)
I use it to turn Doubtless One into Solarion.
Posted By:
MrQuizzles
(3/28/2010 9:39:24 PM)
I use this card in my flying deck with three archon of redemptions. I want to get more of these, but as of right now, I just have one.
Posted By:
EvilCleavage
(4/19/2010 12:45:50 PM)
@goaty1 you are wrong, the ruling is correct. the card says "whenever you gain life, you may pay 1W. if you do, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature for each life gained." you target a creature when you gain life, then if you pay the 1W it gets counters.
Posted By:
Bucket365
(6/24/2010 9:24:52 AM)
Cradle of Vitality + Boon Reflection + fully leveled-up Transcendent Master = A life-link indestructible creature that triples his power and toughness every turn, all in only one color. Add in a Sanguine Bond and you got an overkill right there, even if the opponent blocks.
A great card for a win-condition in life-gaining decks, and it really goes well with any lifelink creature. Gain a bit of life, add the counters to one of your weak lifelink creatures and any opponent with no way to remove it will fear as the little creep doubles in power every turn. If you want to make them regret of wanting to remove your growing creep, you can keep some Fling or cards alike to deal huge damage before it dies.
Posted By:
Daikoru
(8/7/2010 10:32:41 PM)
Cradle of Vitality + Battlegrace Angel + Ajani's Pridemate = Good times.
Posted By:
CaptainAwesome13
(9/28/2010 12:51:27 PM)
Obviously Mix with lifelink to dubble the power of a creature each combat. But also combo with souls grace to possible you your opponents creature size as a sudo-fog that pumps your creature huge. best situation I was was a 40+ mycoloth swinging at a 1/1 soul warden and the player souls gracing the mycoloth to pump his creature 1 larger then it, good times. also as above use wall of reverence and for an example of a interesting to pump lifelink why not Mistmeadow Skulk.
Posted By:
thaviel
(11/10/2010 10:01:37 PM)
OMG! this and baneslayer :O
Posted By:
iSlapTrees
(12/18/2010 9:07:38 PM)
Here's a nice combo for a life-gain deck with plains out the wazoo:
Cradle of Vitality
Boon Reflection
Swords to Plowshares/Worthy Cause
Landbind Ritual (or pretty much any life-gain card)
Use the landbind ritual to give yourself 4 life per plains you have (usually 2 per plains, but boon reflection doubles it), place the counters on a creature like usual, then either cast worthy cause or swords to plowshares on it, gaining double its power or toughness respectively, allowing you to place double the counters you just lost, and then some, onto something else. If you used worthy cause, you can possibly even keep going by paying extra for its buy back cost. Just doing this a few times will land you a massive life total, and an insanely powerful creature, and if you have a way to give it trample and shroud (loxodon warhammer and lightning greaves work well for this), you have a game ender right there.
Posted By:
Gameguy602
(4/21/2011 10:44:12 AM)
Here's a question: if you have a creature that deals damage to more than one creature at a time, and that creature has lifelink (for example, Oros, the Avenger), do you gain the amount of life all at the same time? The same can be said about any card that does something similar (i.e. causing opponents to lose life at the same time while you gain it).
Posted By:
Zielheim
(12/1/2011 4:05:55 PM)