I feel kind of silly having bought Rage Reflection. At the time I was running mono-red, but now I play a red/white deck. Same converted mana cost and you get lifelink on top of double strike. It's all too good. Maybe Wizards will revise Magic rules and add a Quadruple Strike. And then they'll make both of these Legendaries so I won't feel like I should be running two of these instead of this and Rage Reflection. Now we need a Double Lifelink...
Posted By:
igniteice
(4/1/2011 7:37:22 PM)
Will it see constructed play? Not likely. EDH and other multiplayer formats? You better believe it. Once this hits the board, don't be surprised if everyone targets you.
Posted By:
SolidSoldier
(9/28/2010 3:49:21 AM)
Splashy and fun in EDH. There's no eldrazi quite like a double striking one, and what this does is essentially increase annihilator by 1. People just can't afford to take the 20+ damage from a single boom boom.
Posted By:
l0k13
(1/6/2011 2:08:33 AM)
@Cheza
You're totally right dude, and Rage Reflection should be blue because it's an expensive spell and an enchantment. If you're going to get off expensive spells, you're going to need the stall blue has, same with keeping an enchant on the field with counterspells so clearly everyone can see that the color wheel is just screwed....
Or we can all learn to build multicolor decks... You know, make a cool little red/white aggro deck, throw in some Lightning Helix and Lightning Bolt to get through in early damage and late game drop this bad boy to help stay around and to increase the damage of your little red and white dudes. Just a thought.
Posted By:
OpenSeasonNoobs
(3/4/2012 8:10:49 PM)
This card is like a cooler version of Celestial Mantle.
Only this turns all of your creatures into certified, double-striking, card carrying BA's.
Posted By:
The_Sturm
(7/6/2011 3:27:08 AM)
@Cheza.
White is traditionally the representation of life magic in many types of fantasy and RPG style gaming. Pallly's, priests, monks, whatever. White magic traditionally is considered holy and has blessing type magic and life gaining type magic. For "lifelink", it is not surprising at all for this color. Blessings which reward life every time you deal damage. Flavor wise you can imagine white lifelink as the focus on healing its user, while black lifelink is more of stealing another users life force. In a flavor sense nature magic or green has had some part in healing, in many other games besides magic. So life magic (white) and nature magic (green) are natural allies. It makes more sense to me flavor wise for the lifelink blessings to be found in white and black, natural enemies and covering 2/5 of the magic color pie.
In many other fantasy RPG type games, life magic has had creatures with the first strike type abilities. Chaos magic or red also has these kinds of abilities. The f... (see all)
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(7/13/2013 9:16:23 PM)
This and Carnifex Demon are the best limited rare bombs in the set. If either of them resolves and gets used even once, it is basically game over for your unfortunate opponent. I drafted a rather pitiful black/red deck where I SPLASHED for this, and this won me every game I won.
Posted By:
frommerman
(3/22/2011 7:28:55 PM)
With this, it's always nice to have 4 Serra Angels in play. Flying 4/4's with double strike and lifeling is sure to make you a winner! ... unless your opponent has some Enchantment removal...
Posted By:
KitaFer
(5/23/2011 1:32:12 AM)
Follow this up with Volcano Hellion for infinite life. You know, as if True Conviction weren't going to win you the game anyways.
Posted By:
Ragamander
(12/15/2011 6:28:44 AM)
Is it worth the high mana cost an cruel color requirements? Maybe, maybe not. All I know is that when cost isn't a consideration the buff enchantment I go to is True Conviction.
True Conviction, strength you can count on.
Posted By:
TPmanW
(12/19/2011 12:42:15 AM)