Hmmm... I guess it renders spark elementals kind of pointless, so that's something...
I could see using it with Windfall though
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(8/2/2011 2:10:46 PM)
Very fun with Smallpox.
Posted By:
TherealphatMatt
(8/26/2011 9:51:32 AM)
Apparently creatures that die at the same time (due to Wrath for example) see each other dying and this will trigger for all creatures your opponents control on board wipes. Makes it pretty acceptable in multiplayer formats.
Posted By:
shmnion
(10/12/2011 4:13:37 AM)
I really tried to make a deck work around this vampire (just 'cause I'd love the art and the flavor). But I couldn't... yet.
In monoB there are a lot of better four-drops, even among the vampires, like Bloodline Keeper or that negator-with-steroids, Obliterator. Besides in turn 4, you're hoping to cast a Lashwrithe.
Let's wait for Dark Ascension and see if WoC print some tools for this girl. So we'll see a competitive B control/discard deck.
Posted By:
grandpraetor
(12/6/2011 4:39:46 PM)
I've recently seen her showing some great promise in a mono black aggro build where she held some superb synergy alongside Phyrexian Obliterator, Liliana of the Veil, Royal Assassin, and your standard boat of removal. Makes me wish Bad Moon was legal in standard just to sock it to tier one!
Posted By:
MagnaLynx21
(1/5/2012 8:43:58 AM)
Great Card Cant find it a slot though in my Vampires Extended Deck. Maybe at the Cost of the Doom Blades.
Posted By:
Zokorad
(1/21/2012 6:03:04 AM)
I bought my friend some of this card as singles, and he loves them; it fits perfectly into his standard-legal mono-black control deck. Everyone who knows both me and him hates me for it.
@Kragash: That's because when this card was printed the keyword "dies" wasn't in use. It came in with M12 to mean; "is sent to the graveyard". The Oracle text is always right, and the most up-to-date.
Things like this are pretty common; back before the keyword "Vigilance" for example there were creatures who had the ability "This creature does not tap to attack", but in the Oracle text, it was replaced with "Vigilance" because that's what we now know it as.
Posted By:
Multihunter
(1/30/2012 8:48:10 PM)
Imagine this in Modern with Sanguine Bond. Every doom blade is also a lightning bolt.
Posted By:
nunzioni
(2/22/2012 5:44:34 AM)
@ Kragash: WOTC officially adopted "dies" as a keyword for M12.
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(3/24/2012 8:43:10 PM)
This is literally my favorite black card. Thank you wizards for tickling my niche... 5.5/5. Igor, you should be proud of this depiction. I could jerk w/o lube to this picture, and for that I thank you.
P.S. Glad to see it has not been reprinted. I vote this card stays that way.
P.P.S. Helping Black mages in showing those frail White mages how life gain is really done! >=D
Posted By:
Silence9
(4/30/2012 12:01:43 PM)