Best flavor text ever.
Posted By:
LTJZamboni
(4/18/2010 8:54:37 PM)
For a triple black cost i'd have prefered him to be 7/7, but a huge flying Pestilence on legs is still not that bad nontheless.
The advantage compared to Thrashing Wumpus is that you can also destroy fatties with a toughness up to five without losing the demon.
But i wouldn't try that much to combo around with CMC8 creatures.
Trying to give it a Basilisk Collar or similar isn't worth it, i'd use something like the aforementioned Wumpus instead for that.
Posted By:
Mode
(4/19/2010 8:16:04 AM)
One of my favorite demons, and some sweet art. Speaking of favorite demons, though, the flavor text quote sounds like it's the words of Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
Posted By:
sarroth
(4/22/2010 11:43:16 AM)
This guy is a bombshell in limited, but probably won't see much Type-II constructed play, as his cost is so far above the curve, and since mono-black has precisely one accelerator (Nirkana Revenant), which costs six mana and dies to creature-kill (although you could pump half of each Swamp's mana into each activated ability to keep the Revenant alive). However, I'd love to see him in casual with Loxodon Warhammer or Vampiric Link, along with traditional black mana-ramp into him, and maybe some Eldrazi Spawn for good measure.
Posted By:
Ragamander
(4/28/2010 3:23:57 AM)
Pity that Celestial Mantle is combat damage only :(
Posted By:
psyklone
(5/13/2010 7:48:01 PM)
I like hellcarver better. And I say this having played both numerous times.
Mostly just because I enjoyed dropping a hellkite overlord+sarkhan the mad and doing 14 damage w/ opponent mid-scoop
not to say he isn't good though, he's great, he's awesome he's a flying pestilence.
Doesn't need deathtouch, seems like there's a nice toughness cutoff at 4 In RotE ( especially for white )
doesn't need lifelink, your gonna win half the time regardless, you just massacred your enemy and ALL his chump blockers. Not to mention the follow-ups with a opening like that and 8 mana floating around.
Posted By:
BlackAlbino
(5/22/2010 10:19:45 PM)
Bonus points for artwork and flavor text!
Posted By:
ESUpin
(5/26/2010 5:35:34 PM)
How does this interact with planeswalkers? Does it get dealt 1 damage to the planeswalker and 1 damage to its controller? Or does someone get to chose to assign it either the player or the planeswalker?
Posted By:
Jodry
(5/29/2010 3:31:51 PM)
Im gona use him in my new black/white lifelink deck.
Amazing creature if you know how to use it.
Posted By:
Pipikako
(10/9/2010 5:31:23 AM)
A very useful demon card,there is no nasty side affect,it has great power and toughness 7/6,and the illistration looks bad-ass.
Posted By:
Demoncollecter
(11/3/2010 1:13:53 PM)