Very evocative skill. I played him at my last sealed PTQ and he came out to play 3 times. I won two of the games easily. In the other one though, my opponent blasted my whole board with spot removal and left a kicked Gatekeeper of Malakir for Kalitas.
As for the rules on the tokens - the M10 rules differ with the previous ones. It used to be that the owner of a token was the person who controlled the ability that put it into play. Unfortunately it caused confusion when people played hunted creatures (like Hunted Troll) and then used Warp World. So they changed it to the more intuitive rule that a token's owner is the player under who's control the token came into play.
Posted By:
omniszron
(10/25/2009 1:40:29 PM)
Kalitas bites self, becomes token. Hilarity ensues.
Posted By:
Locohead
(10/29/2009 9:47:37 PM)
Yes, Dark Rituals in a vampire deck with vamps like Child of Night, Vampire Nighthawk, and Malakir Bloodwitch to keep you alive until Kalitas can splooge out the lesser vamps.
Posted By:
benlivinmusic
(11/11/2009 6:31:51 PM)
A bit exspensive-- But worth it XD
I mean, he's fun to use, and add in a set of dark rituals and you can drop him by fifth turn easy, don't seem too bad.
Posted By:
AbyssalManZero
(11/13/2009 12:15:35 PM)
I would prefer if he had the ability to steal you opponents creatures and turn them into black vampires. It would be nice to keep whatever ability instead of just getting a vanilla hulk.
I mean it's not like its an unheard of ability:Soul Collector,
its also kind of disappointing that the "Whenever a creature dealt damage by this creature this turn is put into a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature" died as soon as vamps were made tribal.
I almost prefer my tribal vamp with Mephidross Vampire and other random black cards than this new zendikar crap
Posted By:
Gezus82
(11/27/2009 4:39:20 PM)
I know its unlikely, but in casual if u get 3 dark rituals, a swamp, and him he's out on turn 1
Posted By:
Elfenthuisiast
(10/19/2009 2:01:12 PM)
So it says "creature token onto the battlefield." Who's control does it come into play under?
Posted By:
Imura
(9/30/2009 4:15:53 PM)
Black/Green has been the hype since zendikar. With some green mana ramp like harrow, this guy is not unreasonable to get out. He has the highest CMC of all cards I have played though.
In casual you can ritual into this guy on turn 5, though you may want to wait a little longer to exhaust your opponents removal.
I found this guy gets owned by nissa's chosen though. Not in graveyard = no token. Same thing with the blade of the bloodchief.
Posted By:
Pwnsaw
(10/12/2009 11:03:33 PM)
Horrible card that doesn't work till the design team realized their mistake and added a ruling online,as well as being a Timmy card that could see limited play.
id give it 0 stars if I could but I can't
Posted By:
iamjohn
(7/2/2010 6:26:43 AM)
Ok use this guy with Xathrid Demon, Rockslide Elemental, Megrim, Crypt of Agadeem, and Crowd of Cinders. The only thing I dislike about this card is that its legendary and I can't have more than one in my deck.
Posted By:
Lynor
(12/17/2010 2:17:32 PM)