I don't see the awesomeness in this card. It has *absolutely* no effect on board state. If you are losing, you'll still lose. If you are winning, you are still winning, but with one card less and some lands tapped.
The only use of this cards I see is as sideboard, against certain decks that rely on very specific cards. As most combo (specially 2-cards combo) or decks with an extremely low count of threats (I'm thinking of control decks that have a couple fatties as finishers). It's a decent card as sideboard because if you remove them most of their threats, they have much more trouble winning. But most decks are immune to this kind of shenanigans....
Haunting Echoes, on the other hand, is a really decent finisher, because by the time you have the mana to cast it, it will probably empty your opponent's library in a *big* way, and thus, even if it has no effect on board state, it's a decent winning condition on its own. But this card can't make the same. Only when... (see all)
Posted By:
ninjabear
(1/19/2012 4:29:55 AM)
Its time to kick Sadistic Sacrament and break combos
And you are all out of combo pieces.
Posted By:
Stinga
(4/20/2012 1:36:59 PM)
Bought 6 Zendikar boosters. Pulled three of these. I think the powers that be were hinting at something.
Posted By:
TheManakinTransfer
(6/15/2012 8:24:09 PM)
Run with sinkhole and kick to exile their lands.
Posted By:
Sessy
(6/24/2012 6:14:39 PM)
Use this in conjunction with Mind Funeral. Nab lands with this, then mind funeral has a clearer path to cut through what's left.
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(1/9/2014 12:01:21 AM)
@Prickom:
"How much more powerful sets are these days..."
Uh, buddy, sets these days don't have Balance, Mind Twist, Dark Ritual, or Duallands.
Posted By:
ConleysWood
(3/23/2014 9:53:31 PM)
Seriously. This card does it's job. The kicker is just candy on top. Solid 4/5.
My Top 5 Punch-Your-Friend-in-the-Face Card List:
#1. Haunting Echoes
#2. Extirpate
#3. Mind Shatter
#4. Blightning
#5. Sadistic Sacrament
Posted By:
dberry02
(3/24/2014 10:37:03 AM)
Why bother taking out their biggest threats... Exile 13 lands from their library and mill them with mind funeral
Posted By:
IamjustnotCreative
(4/15/2014 12:15:13 PM)
I don't see why you would target lands. If you have 
for the 15, you opponent probably has enough lands. Maybe you you are dedicated land destruction? In that case you are awful. Mind Funeral is a neat combo, but I think you are better off just taking all their good cards and winning cautiously then trying to mill them out with a 13 mana combo.
The use of this should be obvious, take your opponent's best cards. And yeah, they will probably concede if you kicked this. 15 cards? That's a full fourth of their deck; including lands. If you had the to pay for that, we can probably assume they don't have anything beyond land and a few weak creatures or situational spells left. (and what was in their hand but hey, BLACK.) Look on Daily MTG for the list of decks popular right now. Now take 15 cards out of any of those decks and tell me if that is playable at all.
I think what people aren't mentioning is the less flashy, but excellent unkicked version. A card th... (see all)
Posted By:
Enelysios
(5/18/2014 7:20:18 AM)