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This + Finest Hour brought me back from losing 2-20 to winning. I was amused.
Posted By:
BillyBullshot
(10/20/2009 12:40:35 PM)
tooooo gd to comment on
Posted By:
Alex123321
(11/12/2009 12:58:02 PM)
Maybe it should cost one more mana, but it's certainly not broken. People are complaining about power creep among creatures, but I'm not. In the early days of Magic, Creature spells were weak and non-Creature spells were overpowered. Yes, there has been a power creep among creatures, but I welcome it. Creatures are finally being costed at what they should have been costed in the first place.
Despite this argument, yeah, it should probably cost one more mana. But it's not so far off the curve that I would call it broken. It's played in Standard, but it hardly warps the format.
Beautiful artwork, by the way.
Posted By:
agalloch
(4/27/2010 9:38:53 PM)
The best 5 CMC creature in Standard, if not any format! Yes, it probably should have cost more, or at least more W. Still, no reason to NOT play this in any deck that runs a decent amount of white. Yeah, its an immediate target for any of the cheap, easy removal that permeates the game. But that goes for pretty much ANY good permanent. Any card that demands a response is a good card! If an opponent leaves your Baneslayer out for more than a round or two, that's typically game. 5 stars from me.
Posted By:
Emptyglass77
(10/31/2009 10:37:15 PM)
this card kicks, all u are like this i useless where were u born dragons are huge demons are huge, and flying, first strike, lifelink all for five mana i've seen worse cards cost like 10 mana, if u can add vigilance to it holy heavens help the person staring at it.
demons and bragons are considered the big red and dlack cards so this basicly has protection from the most dangerous creatures, so this card should be counted as a stright 5 stars !!!!!!!!!
Posted By:
lightning19
(7/18/2009 3:50:01 PM)
Wow. This is a REALLY nice card. 5cc for a 5/5 with TWO power abilities, flying and dual type protection? Win, I declare. Y'know, cept for being horrendously unbalanced.
Posted By:
Joseph_Leito
(7/13/2009 6:19:50 PM)
This thing is totally overrated. I can think of around a dozen 5 mana, less than 5/5, non flier, first strike and/or lifelink that are actually white in extended, let alone the protections.
Now its the Baneslayer Angel, later will be the Aeon's Torn (15/15 flying, when cast you play an extra turn, protection from colored spells, if put on graveryard, shuffle it into library, 15 CMC colorless, card from Rise of Eldrazi). The developers are having a spike of "lets make uber stuff that costs 500% times more than normal stuff in both, mana cost and real life cash just to see what comes out!". Well developers, after ROE, STOP THE DARN SPIKE OF UBER CARDS.
I understand metagame sometimes changes and needs some refining, comparing a Sisai's ring with a Sol ring, but it has limits; you cannot put 144 cards that read "cannot block unless you control a zombie" and a 145 one that reads "15/15, zombie, flying, trample, haste, lifelink, vigilance, cannot be the target of opponent's spells, you have... (see all)
Posted By:
WER386
(4/12/2010 2:01:34 PM)
Ever since the arrival of Shards of Alara, Magic began suffering from a power creep, being this a perfect example. And seeing the spoiler from M2011(this abomination being reprinted) they arent done yet with power creeping.
Magic is bleeding and slowly dying.
Posted By:
thepoisonx
(7/3/2010 6:17:53 AM)
They put this in the Divine vs. Demonic duel decks. Divine never loses. I wonder why. (The other big angel card has pro-black). In short, I hate this card. Did they attempt to balance it? Probably not.
Posted By:
CeremonialBathory
(8/12/2009 2:22:42 AM)
Sorry, forgot to rate it 5 *s
Posted By:
godmetal101
(8/8/2009 11:25:45 AM)