Holy son of a bleep-blob, everyone's complaining about how you could lose so much life when you pair this with anything CMC 3 or higher. Solution: Stop putting them in your deck. Use cost-efficient cards like Bloodghast, Pulse Tracker, and Vampire Lacerator. You'll be drawing lands a third of the time anyways.
Trust me, I've been molested by this card and Tumble Magnet, Lavaclaw Reaches, and f-tons of one-mana burn. This card is not to be under-estimated with.
Posted By:
Thaxan_Number_14
(12/9/2010 6:08:39 PM)
This weekend, a guy had this card in play and casted a Stormtide Leviathan. I Excommunicated it.
Posted By:
Ph1005
(7/11/2010 10:02:42 AM)
Seems like it should at least match bobs cost or cost BB.
The loss is incomparable to everyone's favorite arena, and the fact that if you run a playset you risk bolting yourself is kinda bleh.
Still, scry and this is a winner in limited.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(7/11/2010 8:15:45 AM)
Platinum Emperion.
Posted By:
Schlapatzjenc
(12/16/2011 1:31:00 PM)
Every other card that it a creature version of an artifact or enchantment, people pooh-pooh it because "it just dies to removal".
Yet, this enchantment version of Dark Confidant is summarily dismissed.
WTF?
It would be nice if Magic wannabees were consistent - they so slavishly follow the "experts" and the tourney advice, it's pathetic.
I guarantee, if tourney players stuffed this card in their decks and touted its card advantage, people would be falling over themselves to follow suit and the card's $ value would skyrocket.
Newsflash - Dark Confidant dies to removal.
And a 2/1 without evasion is not exactly a scary creature on the field.
Most other cards, people would be arguing that Dark Confidant is strictly WORSE than the enchantment version.
Posted By:
reapersaurus
(3/19/2011 2:47:13 AM)
Yes this card is essentially strictly worse than Phyrexian Arena, and in almost every deck that would consider this type of card worse than Dark Confidant. It's still a fine card in the right circumstances, you don't just have to compare it to some of black's poster card drawers. I could come up with a bulleted list for why I would play Necropotence instead of this. That doesn't make this bad, it just makes Necro really good.
Posted By:
littleteapot
(1/4/2011 2:30:49 PM)
Listen boy im kickin Str8 Dope in your ear. u'll win trust me its Just gonna Hurt
Posted By:
MasterOfEtherium
(5/1/2011 8:38:38 PM)
Almost strictly worse than bob and phyrexian arena; in legacy and vintage this will never see play. Also, the reason why Bob is good is...
1) It's less mana than similar card drawing engines like necropotence and arena.
2) It can swing for 2.
3) It's a creature so you can kill it whenever.
Even in standard this is tricky to use; you have to constantly use library manipulation like jace's brainstorm to avoid losing too much life.
Posted By:
mdakw576
(7/8/2010 5:06:44 PM)
Man this is bad.... It's like taking phyrexian arena and dark confidant, glue them together and hit them with a shovel until they stop beeing good.
Posted By:
majinara
(7/9/2010 7:47:31 PM)
phyrexian unlife
Posted By:
Kyzar
(7/12/2011 4:54:49 PM)