@Captain_Sisay_2591
Except it doesn't put it into play for free.
This card is REALLY good in EDH. Almost everyone runs a sol ring or at least some other strong mana rock. You could also grab a sword of fire and ice or jitte.
In EDH, you also play a lot of multiplayer games so there is likely to be someone in at least one of you colours.
5/5 because it is just awesome and not many people think so.
Posted By:
SAUS3
(6/12/2013 11:07:17 AM)
Question: If you want to run this card, why not run Sadistic Sacrament instead?
Answer: Because Sacrament merely answers threats and removes cards from your opponent, whereas this lets you cast them back at your opponent and gives cards to you.
Playing this is as {B}{B} Sacrament instead of a {B}{B}{B} Sacrament was FINE, it was GOOD, and it was enough to get this card 3.75 stars on Gatherer because it could also sometimes pretend it was a kinda-bad version of a Blue card. In non-EDH multiplayer, you can even steal lands and gain colors and use 4 of them and really do some cool things! BUT...it's mostly for EDH. And that puts restrictions on your colors. And that means there's rarely a point to stealing lands. And that, let us be harsh and honest, hurts this card's usefulness a good bit. Still, you know, a good card. But previously, it was kind of part of a category of good cards: "the particularly harsh answers". It was in the same category as all of the other... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(7/17/2013 11:28:55 PM)
Land Grabbing in Black? That said, this is for all of you control players who play singleton for their win condition.
Posted By:
TheManakinTransfer
(10/22/2013 8:48:30 PM)
I like to think of this card as a 3-mana demonic tutor (so in between demonic and diabolic tutor) that can be a pretty awful card in 1v1 at times (if your opponent doesn't share colors with you). I'm not gonna spend 4 mana for diabolic tutor to find my sweeper or wincon, and I'm not going to spend hundreds of dollars getting the black portal tutors like imperial seal. but I sure wouldn't mind spending 3 mana to rip those cards from an opponent's deck.
Posted By:
mdakw576
(3/9/2014 5:27:46 AM)
Extract for 2 more mana?
Well, in a singleton format like EDH where I need this effect I will gladly take it!
Posted By:
MightyPox
(4/11/2014 12:29:42 AM)
Amazing in EDH, but an absolute must-have for EDH mill decks to get rid of graveyard shuffle cards like Kozilek, butcher of truth. Pretty handy in 5-colour as well, since you can cast everything you exile. Or with Condemn, exile their commander from the library and they'll never get it back. Muahaha… Very versatile.
Posted By:
BobbySinclair
(4/17/2014 9:33:52 AM)
As soon as you Praetor's Grasp their commander from their library, they get it back, you can not keep it face down or cast it ever.
As long as you are allowed look at the card, if the card is another player's commander, you must look at it immediately, and then return it to the command zone.
Posted By:
Vulf
(6/10/2014 2:34:58 AM)