Very decent Limited card for Black, not to mention the numerous uses in multiplayer and EDH. I don't really see this card making it to serious Standard formats
Posted By:
Randomhero83
(11/4/2010 8:03:59 PM)
Oh i'll call all my friends right now to play some game of Magic! And my mother too!
Posted By:
nimzo
(11/7/2010 8:59:07 AM)
It seems everyone except for the Channelers is ignoring the clause that Drain Life and Consume Spirit have that this lacks. You can ramp into it without Cabal Coffers, which opens up B/G mana ramping as a deck possibility.
I don't think we need to get into multiplayer absurdity here.
Posted By:
CrazyLou
(11/15/2010 9:10:36 AM)
It seems to me that this is just a bad Drain Life in 2 player. Although you need less black mana, it cant kill creatures which really stinks. In multiplayer though it can do some serious damage
Posted By:
mtgfan13
(11/16/2010 3:48:42 PM)
Just saying one word to all kitchen tables from this "Thing":
Ban it!
Posted By:
Jokusho
(11/17/2011 3:09:09 AM)
Considering that Bond of Agony was already a fantastic card in multiplayer, this card is somewhere in the realm of mindblowing.
Posted By:
scumbling1
(1/26/2012 4:24:02 PM)
This thing is bonkers in multiplayer, especially if you have a Bubbling Muck on hand.
Posted By:
Lief098
(2/12/2012 3:47:52 PM)
My friends totally hate me now. I had a ton of cat tokens out from White Sun's Zenith and Ashnod's Altar. Needless to say, all four of them lost instantly.
A couple of hours later, it happened again! It's like no one was paying attention, then bam! Insta-dead! Great uncommon!
Posted By:
oddmonk
(3/11/2012 10:25:42 PM)
I understand the need for the card to be good in multiplayer---but this seems a bit pushed. Not 'broken' per say, but not exactly what should be printed as the 'every day multiplayer effect'. This is to multiplayer drain life effects as Lightning Bolt is to direct damage in duels.
Instead, a card they could make every other Block would just gain you X life, not all the damage you dealt. There is STILL Sanguine Bond if you think just gaining X once is not good enough.
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(3/31/2012 7:16:37 PM)
Black's default win condition in EDH.
It's a really good card in group games, to the point that I actually removed it from a few of my decks (Along with Cabal Coffers) because it made games too repetitive.
Posted By:
Fireballmage
(5/2/2012 1:40:11 PM)