5/5 for my favorite black card ever.
Posted By:
LeoKula
(10/19/2009 1:19:10 PM)
"Dark Ritual on the same set, turn one draw up to 19 cards, assuming you have zero costed mana producing artifacts and other Dark ritual or any other low costed spells, you might end up killing your opponents on the firs turn.."
How are you getting the cards exiled with Necropotence into your hand on the first turn's main phase?
"The morons at the DCI who've ruined Type 1, I'm shocked they haven't taken aim at this more. I'll stop referring to them as idiots once Library of Alexandria and Fastbond become totally unrestricted again, and they allow Fastbond in Type 1.5."
It sounds like you want to completely destroy the eternal formats just for a trip down memory lane. Do you have any idea how bad Fastbond would be in Legacy, just with the existing top tier decks? x4 Library in Drain decks would be just as bad. This is a fallacious appeal to the past -- things were not better then simply because you have fond memories of them. The current rules of deck building got... (see all)
Posted By:
scumbling1
(4/7/2011 6:40:30 PM)
The R/G beats/ that was running around at the same time as necro didn't care for the skull, also there was a lot of U/W control. U/W got wrecked once people realized you could run it in decks other then agro though.
That being said thing is P. fierce, and one of the best engines in the history of magic.
Posted By:
Gilgiga
(10/4/2009 12:15:31 PM)
Ah fine memories of the Black Summer, of course I meta-gamed alot with White Weenie which was good at the time too. A great card anyone who ever played this card would get the point easily.
Posted By:
Tackle74
(4/13/2010 5:57:11 PM)
I saw the insane power of this card in my cousin's suicide black deck way back in '97. This card is single-handedly responsible for my love of black and monoblack decks since then.
Posted By:
Claytoon
(6/25/2011 9:18:12 PM)
hymn to tourach..hypnotic specter..sink hole..mind twist..strip mine..and necropotence!
ahhhh! those were the days!
Posted By:
zenitramleirdag
(9/8/2011 3:07:59 AM)
This card made many of my friends quit the game, when everybody was running "the skull" in his or her deck. There were only 2 decks at the time in this area: those running necropotence and those designed to disrupt the necropotence deck (and most of those were also running...: NECROPOTENCE!)...
Posted By:
Kartakass
(9/19/2009 3:45:24 PM)
The quick-draw skull. Terrifying to its opponents, intimidating to those who would tap its power, considered a game breaker. But there are ways around it! Hand destruction, removal, Bloodchief Ascension!
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(6/18/2010 11:54:00 PM)
Yes, please get 19 cards so I can kill you with my scorching spear.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(5/5/2012 11:41:50 AM)
Life as a resource... Necropotence players discovered it.
InQuest ranked it as the worst card in Ice Age, but who could have thought giving up your draw step was a broken move waaay back then? They came back years later and proved themselves wrong by giving it the full five dots in the Players Guide of their magazine, as it should be.
5/5
Posted By:
MassiveMassive
(8/28/2012 11:58:40 AM)