Desperate Ravings (Innistrad) - Community - Gatherer

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If you flash this back from your graveyard after having played it, it nets you a grand total of...
1 card.
I understand there's value in being able to cycle through cards, but random discard can really wreak havoc on your hand composition.
However, there are benefits to putting cards in your graveyard, and that's where this card shines over Think Twice.

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Posted By: NoobOfLore (2/29/2012 6:05:00 PM)

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I... I like Faithless Looting better... I am sorry.

The whole Random aspect would not sit well with me when I discard something like Inferno Titan instead of something like Past in Flames (or something with Flashback).

The fact that it also needs Blue

to play its Flashback calls for a splash of Blue

, or playing a card like Altar of the Lost or Shimmering Grotto (or some other mana-fixing card)

It's not bad at all, mind you. Faithless Looting has been a better card for me, but you don't gain any cards from it, unlike Desperate Ravings (you play 1 card from hand, draw 2, discard 2: you're left with -1 your original hand), and that's the price you pay (plus the

extra cost :S)

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Posted By: Ferlord (5/10/2012 6:42:38 PM)

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Ingredients: Flashback, draw 2, instant speed, mana efficiency, graveyard fuel. Part of a complete Pyromancer Ascension/Archmage Ascension breakfast.

Desperate Ravings. They're GreeeeeeeeaASRADRAF ITS IN THE WALLS

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Posted By: jerkoid (1/14/2013 7:55:12 PM)

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I just can't force myself to like this card. While it does provide pretty solid card advantage, and in red of all things, just by virtue of the fact that its flashback cost is blue means that you should have more reliable card draw spells. To many people, tournament players included, the card advantage outweighs the randomness, but for me I just can't do it.

3/5

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Posted By: Tamerlein (7/18/2013 5:32:34 PM)

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http://youtu.be/9R8FLpMTyIc?t=4m15s

Patrick Chapin basically explained (albeit several years ago in a vastly different meta) why this card is deceptively strong. If you need to dig for something, you play this as a value card. If you don't, then play the other cards in your hand.

People will get turned off by the random effect, and you will indeed lose games where you accidentally pitch a card you need. But you will also steal games you had no business winning by digging 4 cards at bargain mana costs at instant speed.

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Posted By: mdakw576 (8/8/2013 5:59:22 AM)

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