wooooooooooooooow.....so overpowered its awsome
Posted By:
iNathan
(7/25/2010 8:57:55 PM)
@ Veider222
Yes, on the Icy Manipulator strategy. It is not a colored spell, so its ability would work on Emrakul. However you would have to play its ability before the attack is declared, otherwise Emrakul is already tapped, and Icy Manipulator's ability does nothing, letting the annihilator ability take effect.
@ benegade
The Haze Frog strategy has the downside of not protecting you from sacrificing six permanents on the field. Unless you're running tokens on the field, there's a good chance you'll be crippled even if you prevent the damage.
Posted By:
FouCapitan
(8/10/2010 1:53:36 AM)
I survived a Hard-Cast Emrakul tonight... I think my friend was just glad to get him out after countless games of me beating him, he didn't realize that turning Emrakul sideways in that free turn's main phase would let me swing in with a Celestial Colonnade for the win
Posted By:
Razbot
(8/12/2010 8:09:53 PM)
Ugh, It's like magic R&D was thinking, "Hey, how can we destroy EDH as a format?"
Eldrazi was their answer. Now half of the rands I play EDH with either use Braids, Conjurer Adept or Jhoira of the Ghitu to get this POS on the board as fast as they can, so much for a fun, casual format. When someone we reluctantly play with does this, my group of friends turn to each other and say, "We concede," then continue to play without the aforementioned person. :D
"On another note you can counter this and prevent the graveyard effect by using a Time Stop, as this causes Emrakul to be exiled. I think the other player still gets their extra turn though."
-Concerned_Bystander
You can let them have the extra turn if you want, but when this is cast, that ability is put on the stack on top of this, much like cascade and you can time stop in response to the extra turn ability to remove that from the stack also.
Posted By:
KarmasPayment
(8/16/2010 6:30:44 AM)
This is a great card fourth turn- unless you are unlucky enough to draw it in your opening hand which happens a surprising amount of the time. And then its just too big- this is something ive found-the annihilator 6 is nice, but like i saw some people say- it just ends the game prematurely most of the time, which is near no fun :P. As fun as it is to get it out, take another turn, and see half my opponents battlefield gone, its less fun to play eldrazi green for three games before people refuse to play it, and are done in general for a few hours. Overall- brilliant concept, well conceived, but just too big.
Thanks to WotC and Magic for a lovely game and the hours of fun I've had and will have in the future. Design and Development keep doing what you do- it keeps the game interesting.
Posted By:
ihatecardio
(8/16/2010 8:07:52 PM)
With my green elf/mana accel deck, I can play this turn 4
Posted By:
brothersbutler
(8/31/2010 12:07:11 AM)
lol wing shards kills this so easy. I did that in multiplayer when one of my opponents attacked another opponent with this and kozilek. That felt good.
Posted By:
Th3_Dark_On3
(8/31/2010 9:41:53 AM)
Meh...... Fold into aether will bring this out for 4 mana no.....
Posted By:
NIckza
(9/1/2010 7:16:33 AM)
In a deck running Time Warp, Lotus Cobra, Birds of Paradise, Primeval Titan, and the Eldrazi lands, you can pop him out turn 4 with Mana Leak mana to spare. And if you decide to play Jace 2 later, you can take roughly infinite turns.
Posted By:
Gomorrah
(9/6/2010 6:43:00 PM)
@NecroticNobody
Someone correct me if i'm wrong, but casting Virulent Swipe to give your creature deathtouch would not kill Emrakul, the Aeons Torn as he has protection from ALL colored spells. This protection ultimately means that he can not be dealt damage by colored spells and in order for deathtouch to kill him, he must be dealt damage.
Posted By:
chrisxgordon
(9/12/2010 8:08:44 PM)