My friend got this from a booster, too bad for him we only play casual kitchen games with a bunch of friends. He put this into his angel-deck in the hopes of dominating us. I had black. A Doom Blade and Rise from the Grave later he was ready to sell this card to the first buyer. So he did and got a whole deck of cards for it.
Posted By:
Panpl
(7/22/2010 1:12:55 AM)
Baneslayer angel- $40,
Jace 2.0- $70,
Proxy'ing $500 in cards- priceless.
Posted By:
DlCK
(12/8/2010 10:00:51 PM)
Protection from dragons. But, not from Dragonstorm. Pity.
Posted By:
Drewsel
(5/28/2012 8:30:43 AM)
*Face Plam* How could Wizard reprint this? Now if you ever want to make it to a tournament, you need to shell out 50 dollars or more. And I though Jace, The Mind Sculptor was expensive. Maybe, if I get some good white cards, I could sell my Mind Sculptor and get a single Bankslayer, I mean Banslayer Angel.
Posted By:
Demonic_Angel13
(7/9/2010 9:57:23 PM)
Yes, they reprinted it. Yes it is a driving force in the meta. Yes they gave us solid answers to it. No, it does not tear a hole in the universe by staying for another year.
It's here. Stop complaining and buy your reduced cost playset.
Posted By:
gnilleps
(7/16/2010 12:17:17 AM)
"It's not "broken" in the grand scheme of things, it's "internally" broken. Internal balance in this game would be the balance within a color/comparable cards, and this flat out kills them."
Wizards has been pushing creatures' power for their mana costs for a long time now, but who's to say that they got the appropriate ratio of power to mana cost right for creatures in the first place? There is no standard for card design beyond what impact a card has in a given format / metagame. There is no known formula for designing the perfect creature on paper. If a creature can exist with so many abilities for five mana without damaging the format, then it's past the only test for 'brokenness' there is.
"It's not that serra angel is bad, it's that it SHOULD be a relatively good angel."
This is not an argument; this is simply your opinion.
WIzards has been pritning strictly better cards in the same color (and set) since Alpha. Baneslayer is simply another instan... (see all)
Posted By:
scumbling1
(5/5/2011 6:16:51 PM)
I'm a bi.tch, I'm a bi.tch
Oh the bi.tch is back
Stone cold sober as a matter of fact
I can bi.tch, I can bi.tch
`Cause I'm better than you
It's the way that I move
The things that I do
Posted By:
Vinifera7
(7/9/2010 5:30:42 PM)
"You want to put your kids through college? Too f'ing bad...all your moneys belong to us" --Wizards Sales Rep
Yes, the secondary market, but you have to be completely gullible not to believe that the card shops and wotc don't have a shared interest and arranged deals in reprinting cards like this.
Posted By:
OutlawD1
(7/14/2010 11:58:16 AM)
The problem with this card isn't that it's got extraordinary abilities, or that it's extremely powerful. The really idiotic thing is the mana cost. It's an average creature with a ridiculously reduced mana cost. THAT'S the problem.
Sure, it dies to removal, like 80% of other creatures. Sure, it can be mind-controlled, like the vast majority of creatures. That's not the point. The point is that it's got +1/+1, protection from two very powerful creature types, first strike, AND lifelink over Serra Angel......... for exactly the same mana cost.
Baneslayer's lack of vigilance is just a laughable attempt at making it not OBSCENELY stricly better than Serra Angel. This card, along with anyone who willfully plays with it, is quite pathetic to need such an unfair advantage.
Posted By:
Ladnarud
(8/9/2011 2:43:16 AM)
power creep ftw.
A 5/5 with close to a paragraph of keywords.
CMC of 5.
Really, wizards? This card should be banned or restricted in all formats.
Posted By:
Jitteryowl
(8/4/2013 7:21:59 PM)