weakest mythic rare ever!!!! Jace Beleren is glad for this print.
Posted By:
Areps
(2/27/2012 11:49:33 PM)
I'm not a giant fan of Mythic Rarity, especially making it more powerful than Rares, so this pleases me.
Posted By:
NeoKoda
(3/31/2012 10:33:53 AM)
You know how to improve this card? if you could return to the battlefield any amount of cards with a total CMC equal to the total life gained with it, shuffle the rest into your library. So if you gained 14 or 16 life, you could return 3 to 5 permanents average, that should do for a rare status.... maybe even return half the life gained rounded up of permanents..THAT could be a Mythic.
Posted By:
Maese_Leo
(5/7/2013 7:40:59 PM)
@DacenOctavio: You paid 
just to double the life he gains from this? You sure are a nice fellow.
Notice how it doesn't say "target player", it says YOU. As in the caster of the spell. As in copying it will get you nowhere.
Posted By:
DoragonShinzui
(5/17/2013 6:21:37 PM)
If it would cost like 3 to 5 mana it would be actually good/acceptable.
Now it's just the worst mythic ever printed.
Posted By:
Winhert
(6/6/2013 2:59:13 PM)
This card can easily save you from decking. You people have to remember that some decks hate this card being used because it gives an even bigger life gain. When your opponent gains 80 life and shuffles away all your progress of trying to kill them, it sucks.
Posted By:
WindMasterArceus
(8/26/2013 10:42:32 AM)
The spiritual successor to One With Nothing.
From a retrospective meta standpoint, I think the first two sets of Innistrad block was probably a "dark hours" period for MtG fans as a whole, though no freaking way was that intentional. Certainly didn't threaten the game, but it was not a happy time.
We'd just had the atrocity that was Caw-Blade, and the first Standard bans since freaking RAVAGER AFFINITY. Other things still burning in player's minds were Lotus Cobra, the Infect mechanic, and a lot of very unpleasant "Mythic Rares are the Center of any Competitive Deck" cards from the core sets (Titans) and SOM block (Swords, Wurmcoil Engine, Batterskull, Tezz2, etc., mostly Wurmcoil though). People were in arms over how ridiculous Phyrexian Obliterator felt (unwarranted), but the bigger problem was Dismember (which everyone played out of fear of Obliterator, though stuck around with becau... (see all)
Posted By:
Nucleon
(2/22/2014 8:25:07 PM)
I think this and Lingering Souls traded rarities. This was misprinted AS mythic and Lingering Souls was going to BE a mythic. That or Thalia, Guardian of Thraben.
Posted By:
GoOrmot2Go
(3/10/2014 4:58:31 PM)
My goodness, people, it's not that bad. I think you're all reacting to the "mythic" status more than anything. Judged on its own merits, it's fine. It's also combo-able with cards like turn lifegain into something else, and there are plenty of examples like that around. Cradle of Vitality, Griselbrand, Storm Herd, Sanguine Bond, etc. There are PLENTY of decks that place a lot of cards in your graveyard, and gaining what could be 60 life or may well buy you enough time to actually draw a card that helps you regain board position. It could exhaust decks that rely on cards that sacrifice themselves (e.g. Ball Lightning, decks that rely on mill, decks that rely on cheap, fast creatures without staying power, etc.
Posted By:
CFLuke
(5/17/2014 12:47:12 AM)
not sure it should be mythic, but here people is why it cost 8 mana. Chalice of Life Chalice of Death then after getting four of them out plus a lot of tokens to block
Infernal Plunge a few tokens to get the mana early to play this and if that doesnt win you the game make more tokens and attack attack!
Posted By:
robits_for_the_win
(1/26/2012 9:26:46 PM)