Its a sadistic sacrement. This card punishes bad luck hard even without the kicker. Mnemonic Wall just makes it even more versitle. Play once early game and again late game. Or try to do it faster if youre into land hate.
Also for those who said mill is dead... yeah...
Posted By:
CerealBoxOfDoom
(11/10/2010 2:49:48 PM)
At first, exiling 15 cards seemed closer to a milling strategy than a 'target resource cripple' strategy.
Then I thought 'holy crap, EDH!'
actually, you know what? 15 cards out of your deck is always going to feel like milling.
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(2/10/2012 4:25:43 PM)
i get to choose what cards i mill? yes please
Posted By:
inmypants22
(9/30/2009 7:28:40 PM)
Black is becomming more and more powerful.. play this on turn 3.. go through their deck, hmmm take out their 3 highest level cards. Play the kicker and you could remove their entire mana base, or all their best cards practically on one turn. If it weren't for mind break trap this would be way over powered.
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(9/25/2009 6:46:09 PM)
this is at least as good as Jester's cap, and probably better since it's less vulnerable to removal (since it's never a permanent), and you can kick it to make it devistating. How can an opponent recover from having the most important 15 cards removed from the game?
Then, bring in eternal witness for some real fun.
Anyone else remember praying each of your Ice Age boosters would be a jester's cap? When I got sadistic sacrament in my zendi booster i was actually disappointed at first. Goes to show how much more powerful sets are now.
Posted By:
Nickkom
(12/10/2009 10:50:27 AM)
Favorite use of this card?
I had a Leyline of Anticipation out in a 4-person EDH game. I was planning to cast this on player B at the end of the turn rotation turn, when player B casts this (kicked, because EDH) on Player D. Player D had a Vedalken Orrery out, and responded by casting her own copy of the Sacrament on me, also kicked. I couldn't resist.
We rotated decks and had an exiling party, while my poor friend player C sat there with his Mayael deck looking sad. On his turn, of course, his Defense of the Heart went off, and he got an Avenger of Zendikar and a Craterhoof Behemoth with Fervor out, cast Overwhelming Stampede and killed all three of us, while we sat there tapped out from our sadism.
Favorite last 15 minutes of a game in recent memory.
Posted By:
ereidivh
(7/3/2012 10:38:04 PM)
i used this on my friend's ally deck and kicked it. got rid of all his oran rief survivalists, umara raptors, kazandu blademasters, turntimber rangers and a couple lands. he conceded. i'll never forget the look on his face the turn i cast this.
Posted By:
no_body
(12/3/2009 1:04:15 AM)
"can I has 1 more card" says it all. Cranial Extraction was better in off colour, thought hemorrhage is also better in off colour(much better). Also Earwig Squad had the same effect for an easier cost (if prowled), on top of a 5/3 body. The kicker is nice, but unless you specifically build around the card chances of playing it with the kicker are as Lestat Said, a pipe dream.
To sum up, an ok card if you want to build a deck around it(probably some variation of mono black control), and almost terrible in anything else (or at least there's a better option).
Posted By:
Wraggles
(10/2/2009 12:39:22 AM)
Yood card, if you manage to get yourself 10 mana, and your opponent already has a lot of lands, you can simply exile all his/.her creatures.
Posted By:
GoGo26
(9/26/2009 7:48:53 AM)