This is sub 3? Ke? It's a combo card, and not a bad one. Stick it into the combo deck, and just don't play it until you can offset the life loss, or your combo's going to go off.
Personally, I just put it into a BG Recurring Nightmare deck. Essence Warden offsets the life loss, so if I have a Kozilek's Predator in the grave and one on the board I can get infinite black mana, which means I can infinitely recur anything in my graveyard - say, Kokusho or Woodfall Primus for example. Given the deck runs Survival of the Fittest, the Kozileks aren't even difficult to get.
I'd give it a 4 just for infinite combo potential.
Posted By:
JaxsonBateman
(5/9/2011 6:44:34 AM)
I miss the times that you actually had to think to use powerful cards
alas, such days are long gone
Posted By:
Mr.Wimples
(5/9/2011 7:57:01 PM)
This, Essence Warden, and the Earthcraft/Squirrel Nest combo. There, I broke it. Happy?
Posted By:
Superllama12
(11/8/2011 5:33:33 AM)
They should have brought back Davvol in Scars of Mirrodin.
Posted By:
scumbling1
(4/18/2011 6:00:51 PM)
This card actually works amazingly with a pair of Nether Traitors, something to sacrifice them to, like Spawning Pit, Deathgreeter and, say, Ageless Entity.
Posted By:
Zaxm
(8/17/2010 8:21:08 AM)
I love the wording of ruling. So final.
Here's a silly combo. Use this, Death Match, and two Skullsnatchers. You can keep using ninjutsu, and drain your life to clear the board.
Posted By:
Gelzo
(1/5/2011 7:53:15 PM)
Carnival of Johnnies
Posted By:
MostlyLost
(6/13/2013 9:09:36 PM)
Death Cultist + Carnival of Souls + Enduring Renewal. You're welcome :)
Posted By:
Earthdawn
(6/18/2013 5:34:42 AM)
The next unhinged set better contain a 'Davvol's Birthday' card. Just because.
Posted By:
psychichobo
(6/25/2013 2:41:46 PM)
Zeroth: Dark Ritual is so good at doing the same thing you need a VERY good reason to run this.
First: about "Good" and "Bad" a quick sentence--
This is a horrible card in the same way that "Night on Bald Mountain" is a terrible piece of music. They are both extremely DISSONANT and pretty much do the opposite of what you should be expecting good MAGIC cards or beautiful music to be doing. That's the quickest I can say it. If you like this card, I bet you think "Night on Bald Mountain" is good, too. (I like them both.) Compare this to how Sorrow's Path and Dubstep are not even "Dissonant", they just plain suck. (I hate them both.)
Second:
This card has a 'whenever' clause and an 'adds' effect. It might be a VERY unpleasant formula to try to use and abuse because losing life is supposed to be worth...if not a whole card, at least 3/4, or maybe 5/8 of a card, and 1 mana is not worth even half a card. (Unless you're Lotus Petal/auto... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(7/31/2013 8:25:16 AM)