Deathtouch now makes this card doubly brutal. You get your most damaging creature through unblocked, and slide their big defender over to your Glissa, the Traitor.
Posted By:
themlsna
(2/1/2011 8:21:35 AM)
I was the first at the local gaming store to figure out the power of this card. On turn 3 I would oftentimes make my Kird Ape (Arabian Nights was the most recent set) unblocked and then Giant Growth + Berserk + Berserk (with the help of Llanowar Elves or Birds of Paradise or a Mox) for a turn 3 kill. It won me quite a few tournaments.
Posted By:
professornutbutter
(9/23/2009 4:58:59 AM)
Dear God, the ambiguity of the printed card text!
OK, so you pretty much take a blocker and change his blocking assignment. Not a bad effect for its cost!
RATING: 3/5
Posted By:
Treima
(6/1/2009 4:56:14 PM)
One of the many complex cards printed in Alpha, this card is very flavourful, but this effect hasn't seen play due to the above mentioned ambiguity...
Posted By:
Guest57443454
(7/1/2009 12:36:48 PM)
Phage the Untouchable? Then again, just run Distortion Strike and Spellskite
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(4/9/2012 10:56:44 AM)
A great card flavorwise. Unfortunately, forcing creatures not declared as blockers to block was never a part of intended functionality (see original text "play after defender has chosen defense," though that would have greatly increased the utility of the card. Still, can shift a blocker from a non-Trample/Deathtouch/whatever attacker to the Trample/Deathtouch/whatever attacker, or remove a Deathtouch/Venom/Infect blocker entirely.
Posted By:
Ibn_Shisha
(6/12/2013 6:59:35 AM)
For 1 mana, you could get some good use out of this but most people avoided cards with lengthy explanations. Too bad, since it could screw with carefully assigned blocks quite easily. Maybe a strange effect for Red. It seems that it'd be a White card nowadays.
Posted By:
weasel_fierce
(6/2/2014 1:02:34 AM)