What's that you say Melira? You've got a pet? Really?
Posted By:
ThisisSakon
(4/28/2011 5:44:56 PM)
Rule 112.6h
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/141a&page=4
"This new addition to the list of rules explaining where abilities work says that if an object has an ability that says counters can't be placed on it, that ability functions while the object is entering the battlefield. "Placed" carries double duty, meaning adding counters while an object is on the battlefield and also having an object entering the battlefield with counters."
She doesn't just stop infect, and wither. She also breaks Persist in half, makes modular worthless if you are (for some reason) playing both of them, she also makes Etched Monstrosity one hell of deal.
Posted By:
PhyrexianAdvocate
(5/4/2011 8:08:33 PM)
This + Phyrexian Hydra = a 7/7 infect creature for 5 CMC that can't be dealt damage o.O
Posted By:
Marcl91
(4/29/2011 2:05:31 AM)
If you're against an Infect deck, this card is pure gold (she said as though it were not glaringly obvious). Sure, she needs protection from various types of removal, destruction, and direct damage, but so do most good permanents. Of course, unless you're running a deck that also takes advantage of her abilities when you're not raging against the tyranny of Phyrexia, you're going to want to leave her in your sideboard.
Posted By:
chaoticlivi
(4/28/2011 8:35:59 PM)
My Cauldron of souls is going to follow her everywhere! Throw in a Wurmcoil engine and maybe Piston sledge for sac and you've got, well, a large clunky combo, but lots of wurmies! =)
Posted By:
Halo_Is_Overrated
(6/2/2011 8:47:35 AM)
Finally! Somthing to fix those annoying infect and proliferate decks.
Posted By:
KnightOfSerra
(5/5/2011 5:15:06 AM)
From what I understand of Melira and Everlasting Torment, ET is a global effect, turning everyone's creatures into wither. So Melira prevents any of that wither damage from going through until her or the other creatures.
Posted By:
gentlemanprivateer
(6/16/2011 12:02:24 PM)
She and Thrun, The Last Troll bring some Phyrexia pain.
Posted By:
Symbolis
(7/9/2011 12:36:19 PM)
Flavor note: Melira is, of course, an anthropomorphic vaccine. She's a hilarious Take That! to the disgraced Andrew Wakefield. (Wakefield had a very Phyrexia-like sense of ethics, having his children recruit test subjects among their schoolyard friends. He also didn't reveal who was funding his research.) While Wakefield thought it was a protein that was his illusory vaccine-autism link; when that failed, he claimed it was ethylmercury (not methylmercury, which acutally does cause brain damage). What resulted was a strident manufactroversy over whether or not vaccines caused autism. (Again, there's no conceivable way they could.)
Still, she and Twilight Shepherd make good friends. Or Unstable Mutation. And she's still a bear, no matter what.
Posted By:
bay_falconer
(11/17/2012 10:33:56 AM)