Today on Masterpiece Emoticon Theater, the tale of the worst Oracle edit in the history of the game: why it got done, and why it got undone.
le Phyrexian Devourer resting in junk rare box U_U
Legacy peoples: Survival of the Fittest! Vengevine! DOOD!
Phyrexian Devourer: U_U
Legacy peoples: Necrotic Ooze combos with Phyrexian Devourer! OMG my Necrotic Ooze is now a 114/114 crazy terrorist creature and survives to attack THANK YOU PHYREXIAN DEVOURER
Necrotic Ooze: High Five!
Phyrexian Devourer: ^_^
le Wizards: "ATTENTION PLEBEIANS. ATTENTION. Phyrexian Devourer now has an errata that completely changes how the card's main mechanic works..."
Phyrexian Devourer: o_O
Wizards: "...solely because we want to wreck its usefulness for this one particular combo, thereby hosing one particular degenerate Survival deck in one ... (see all)
Posted By:
Salient
(1/15/2013 1:27:18 AM)
Doesn't this work just fine with fling still?
Exile cards until sacrifice trigger is on the stack (one at a time.) Then instead you start exiling a bunch more in response to the sacrifice trigger. These each resolve before the trigger thus making him huge. You then fling him for 20+ damage.
I think I may build a {B} combo deck out of this. There are so many ways to get the various combos to work via Necroplasm, reanimating, and having redundant kill combos.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(3/22/2013 9:39:35 AM)
Run this in a U/B self-mill deck and don't run any cards above 6 cmc. Simple enough. It's not like you have to exile more and more cards.
Posted By:
atemu1234
(4/20/2013 8:28:03 AM)
Ooze Flux
Posted By:
Deckforge
(5/25/2013 9:39:43 AM)
Brainstorm
Posted By:
Xineombine
(6/5/2013 6:48:20 AM)
With the original function back you can just attack, and if isn't blocked exile your entire library (by repeatly responding to its own ability) and cast Ovinize.
That's how you kill your opponent with a 50/51 sheep.
Posted By:
non1337
(6/8/2014 1:53:46 AM)