You there. The guy that bought the "Mirror Mastery" precon deck. I applaud your purchase. You have entered the realm of Commander(tm) in style with some powerful cards meant to wreak havoc in EDH. Our friend the Gorger here being among them.
You wield great power now, my friend. But along with your great power, you have gained a relentless nemesis.
For you see, I always carry my EDH mill deck with me. And that deck includes a copy of Mind Funeral. Oh, how they laugh at me, scornful and mocking, at the local game store, sending peasants and pitchforks to my castle walls and adding my picture to the "do not sell to this man" list behind the counter. They think me mad. They all do.
But I know better. And soon, you'll know better, too. It'll start innocently enough. You'll unsuspectingly approach someone. "Hey, want to play some EDH?" Yes. Oh yes I do, my unsuspecting victim. Yes, you may think my Hedron Crab and Cathartic Adept... (see all)
Posted By:
Enemy_Tricolor
(5/17/2012 11:51:47 PM)
And I literally just made a Leviathan deck the other day... hunh...
High Tide of course.
Posted By:
Drewsel
(6/19/2011 2:53:42 AM)
This is actually VERY good in my mono-black reanimator deck. Sure Iona shuts them down, sure Jin-Gitaxias gains you crazy advantage that is nigh impossible to come back from, but Trench Gorger is the only one capable of actually winning on turn two.
Simple (at least in a reanimator deck)
have 24 lands in the deck
Dump him into the grave and reanimate him (with the aid of Dark Ritual, otherwise it's a turn 3 victory)
Exile 20 lands out of your deck
Swing for game on turn two.
I've done it consistantly in tournaments and almost always pulls a surprise victory when I play a new (unprepared) face.
Posted By:
WarioMan
(2/19/2012 9:45:50 PM)
You know he means the card is Mana Severance and a leviathan in one...
Posted By:
bfellow
(6/18/2011 11:24:16 AM)
@ Arachibutyrophobia:
It only ignores it's own stats if it chooses to use it's effect. It's conceivable that a player would skip the effect and just take the 6/6 if playing against something like mill.
Posted By:
FogRaider
(10/27/2011 10:17:54 AM)
The God of Momir Basic.
Posted By:
Ertai69
(2/6/2012 4:32:51 PM)
uhuh, then I drop and equip Trepanation Blade and watch your face >:)
Posted By:
Wormfang
(5/6/2012 6:32:45 AM)
This card literally made my eyes widen. O_O
Crazy card. Deck thinning and face-stompin' at the same time? Where do I sign up?
Posted By:
Tiggurix
(5/28/2012 7:08:55 PM)
Not only is this hilarious in EDH, but even better in weird combo decks. I have an Omen Machine deck with stuff like Sensei's Divining Top, Sage of Epityr, and tons of fatties, but it was always the worst in my playgroup because it still ran into tons of lands. Then, I bought a playset of these and tried them out, and they are amazing! I can exile all the lands from my deck, and even if an opponent destroys it, I have made sure that the rest of my draws will be fatties or library manipulation. And even if I draw multiples, it is still a 6/6 trampler, which isn't a bad thing to be pulling for 
. Obviously, it still isn't a great deck, but it is incredibly fun, and can sometimes win in large multiplayer games
Posted By:
Superllama12
(9/6/2012 6:27:08 PM)
The thing a lot of people seem to be missing is that by the time you get to 8 mana, you don't NEED lands. In fact, you don't want to draw lands. This ability is just pure card advantage AND you get a huge creature out of it.
Posted By:
Lifegainwithbite
(7/19/2013 9:10:52 PM)