Phantasmal Dragon
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At prerelease, I had a couple Onyx Mages. I kept killing off illusion creatures by giving them deathtouch. It was pretty neat.

EDIT: Yeah, realized that about a week later :P Felt like an ***.
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Posted By: TherealphatMatt (8/8/2011 5:27:25 PM)
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All The Above ^^^^^^^^
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Posted By: MasterOfEtherium (7/7/2011 6:46:00 PM)
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Absolutely hilarious with Adarkar Valkyrie. The Valkyrie's ability might as well read "Target Illusion has a near-death experience."
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Posted By: Lazyblazey (7/21/2011 9:59:11 PM)
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This creature is only good if your winning. That isn't good. The other three illusion cards are each a thousand times better.
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Posted By: thisisnotmyname (8/3/2011 3:44:33 PM)
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Leonin, I think a spell has to resolve to target anything, but I'm not sure.
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Posted By: Joseph_Leito (7/11/2011 12:13:05 PM)
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Awesome. I love offensive blue, and Dragon makes it even cooler. Am I right to say Lazyblazy is wrong, since a spell or ability targets before it resolves, killing the Illusion in question before the protection is granted?
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Posted By: CollectiveC (7/24/2011 6:45:10 PM)
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In limited: Probably not a first pick in most cases, but it can be very solid in certain matchups. There's truth in the argument that the "dies to anything" ability will generally be less of a drawback than it looks like. As long as you're not completely dependent on this winning the game for you, you could do worse than to spend 2BlueBlue and a card to make them use a removal/combat trick card. You just need to have other threats and be prepared to board it out against decks that have repeatable targeting options.

In constructed: Not really playable outside Illusion tribal decks with Lord of the Unreal. This is potentially workable in a low-tier casual deck designed to have a lot of efficient threats, but making your opponent use their removal card has less value in this format and you still have to watch out for anything with repeatable targeting.
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Posted By: Artscrafter (8/19/2011 10:39:35 AM)
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going U/W this winner of draft tournaments

on top of other four mana drops--Crucible of Fire
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Posted By: raptorman333 (1/11/2012 10:54:31 AM)
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Really surprised, and really disappointed, that this wasn't in Jace's deck on Duels 2012. I love illusion tribal, so getting to play it there is nice, since I don't have to take up space in my stash of Magic cards with a deck I won't play all that often.

Great card, though. It's weird seeing Blue aggro enablers. Note how Gideon's Lawkeeper is a common in the same set.
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Posted By: sarroth (3/18/2012 1:40:42 PM)
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I usually love Wayne Reynolds' magic and D&D artwork, but this looks way too much like a D&D dragon.
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Posted By: kajillion (9/27/2012 12:38:40 AM)
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