Awesome fun in multi :) So flavorful too.
Posted By:
Behalter
(1/10/2010 6:51:56 PM)
@JasonC2: as it says in the rulings, with no other valid choice, you must choose the Efreet. Note that you target your opponent's permantents, but you choose your own. The act of choosing gets around shroud.
Mogg Fanatic's and Frostling's are good, but will only work for a turn. A pair of Whitemane Lion's (or Stonecloaker's, can be used every turn. Norin the Wary is simillarly reusable. Rainbow Efreet has the double bonus of synergy AND being an efreet!
If you want your Homura, Human Ascendant to die, choose it, and don't target any of your opponent's permanents.
This is very synergistic with itself and clone effects like Spitting Image, since you can target one of your own permanents many times.
And finally, while it is strange that this can destroy enchantments, it fits the flavor, you have to jump through... (see all)
Posted By:
kiseki
(3/16/2012 10:41:26 AM)
@kiseki: you do target your own permanent. The text reads, "choose target nonland permanent you control"
This makes it notable for being an instance where hexproof puts you at a disadvantage where shroud would not.
Posted By:
adrian.malacoda
(5/28/2012 11:39:15 PM)
Except it's nonland permanents, ratrase.
Posted By:
FogRaider
(10/25/2009 6:55:16 PM)
@ jstorrie - That's a really good question. I would also like it answered. The ability isn't modal (at least I think it's not), so it's not countered by lack of a legal target.
603.3d The remainder of the process for putting a triggered ability on the stack is identical to the
process for casting a spell listed in rules 601.2c–d. If a choice is required when the triggered
ability goes on the stack but no legal choices can be made for it, or if a rule or a continuous
effect otherwise makes the ability illegal, the ability is simply removed from the stack.
It wouldn't have no legal targets, I guess it would still be able to resolve? It's a really weird one to me. If Incremental Blight were cast and there were only one creature in play, it could still resolve. I suppose the question is, is the first choice separate from the others. Like, if someone casts Feast of blood but then the target creature is Unsummone... (see all)
Posted By:
Wraique
(5/20/2010 2:30:45 AM)
Fun thing to do with this guy is to choose from your permanents something no one wants to see destroyed, like an Abyssal Gatekeeper or an Akki Blizzard-Herder.
Posted By:
Dynamic_Reversist
(8/28/2010 1:22:32 PM)
Um, what if he isn't targetable when his ability triggers, and you don't have other targets available? (E.g. something gave him shroud...)
Posted By:
JasonC2
(5/6/2010 11:07:58 PM)
@ratrase: nope you can't respond to the destruction as it resolves the same time as choosing the permanent
@HairlessThoctar: maybe you mean Spearbreaker Behemoth
my take on this card is combo it with Epochrasite and Paradox Haze
Posted By:
klauth
(3/9/2010 2:21:52 AM)
Red cards always know how to have fun, it is in thier flavor after all. When you think about its enemy colors, blue and white, are typically the most boring colors that favor work and progress over fun.
Posted By:
SavageBrain89
(7/16/2009 6:28:16 PM)
I love everything with this card... First, i love red cards...2nd, its flavor text and artwork makes u think u are a god of fire, which i really like...3rd, red represents chaos, the ability of this efreet is really chaos... Let the world burn and explode, and be the master of great destruction...
Posted By:
God_of_Destruction
(7/26/2009 1:41:32 AM)