This is a stupid card. 5/5 trample and a devastating ability for 4 mana? It throughs the very idea of balance out the window. And of course, it's a mythic rare. It's like R&D doesn't think balance applies to mythic rares. What a load of -
Posted By:
Wulfsten
(6/3/2011 9:02:20 AM)
Silliness, and following the new tradition set by Wallet-Slayer and the Titans that if a creature is a "finisher" it should be mythic rare and stupidly powerful. Great... not...
Anyone else remember when finishers (Serra Angle and Sengir Vampire) were uncommons, easily obtained, and wouldn't break the bank? Look at how far we've "progressed" from those days...
Posted By:
Radagast
(5/6/2011 10:45:55 AM)
True Story:
Today I traded in 2 cards for nine packs (me and my friend got a box), in ONE pack i pulled a Karn Liberated and a Foil one of these baddies. It was a good pack to open. And a good day.
As for this card...Absolutely amazing in every way..but NOT insta win unaided, altho im sure it could be very easily against many decks.. 5/5 til the cows come home....than the cows will be sacrificed.
Posted By:
GoatKnapper
(5/25/2011 1:29:31 AM)
Obliterator looks exceedingly powerful on paper, but in practice this card actually plays out quite balanced (without dark rituals). Firstly, he's playable in mono-black only which severely limits his diversity in application. Other than that, his trample doesn't mean much because it's rare an opponent will take the hit in permanents anyways, so it's better to think of him as an unblockable because of his ability. With this I see a 5/5 unblockable for 4cc that isn't worth burning away for your opponent. Exceptionally powerful, yes, but it's one of the few black beatsticks that gets damage done efficiently and effectively without being prohibitively expensive and easily removed. Compared to other colors, black was in greatest need for a creature that could get some threatening damage through while buying time to play it's other tricks. Obviously Obliterator has incredible defensive potential as well, but it is actually quite difficult to decide whether he is best attacking or defending,... (see all)
Posted By:
Bonghoots
(2/17/2012 2:43:12 PM)
Honestly, this should just be treated as a 5/5 unblockable the majority of the time. The black part is he can blocked, but at a heavy price from your opponent. Also he might as well be unburnable, too.
Posted By:
BongRipper420
(1/13/2013 8:19:57 AM)
Wow... Thank god it dose not have shroud and that it's not splashable.
Mr.Wimples if you presented this card to a WOTC employee ten years ago they would have said it should coast 3 mana and be a common that was when the urzas block was coming out. While the new sets are
vary powerful and this is just plain broken the urzas block still manages to make all the new stuff look week.
Jokergius Kiku's, Shadow reads Target creature deals damage to itself equal to its power. So it is Phyrexian Obliterator doing the damage not Kiku's Shadow. So it would be the controller of Phyrexian Obliterator who loses the 5 permanents.
Posted By:
dragonking987
(5/2/2011 10:06:45 PM)
Bad card design, here. Black isn't supposed to be the color that gets creatures that are ahead of the mana curve (that's green's schtick). A 5/5 Trampler for BBBB would have been solid in and of itself, and in black, usually would have come with some sort of drawback (see Phyrexian Negator). To give him such a potent ability on top of a strong body with trample for that cost? Someone dropped the ball. Honestly, I wouldn't play this card, even in mono-black. No skill to it. Cash cow mythics I guess, but cards like this aren't good for the game. 5/5 for power, 1/5 for bad design.
Posted By:
SkaerKrow
(12/21/2011 7:01:29 AM)
Funny thing...I actually pulled two of these out of one box not including the six other mythics I pulled. So my son was not to impressed by the Phyrexian Obliterator until I played it. He didn't realize that on top of its awsome ability it had trample. The look on his face was priceless! I can't wait to attach a Lure to it just to add insult to injury. Great card!
Posted By:
jmnic63
(5/18/2011 7:17:23 AM)
This is the very definition of powercreep. Strictly better than Grizzly Bears.
Posted By:
H4yd3n
(4/28/2011 2:57:56 PM)