Anathame: I actually took that as a challenge (although i can't remember whether I preferred Oath of Lim-Dul; I understood both cards as Lich variants, even if this is more of a Greed variant), to find a way to make an advantage out of "you can only get cards by paying life". The way I came up with, before news of Necropotence actually being a potent weapon when coupled with Nevinyrral's Disk as an emergency escape button, was, of all things, Chains of Mephistopheles, since you technically aren't drawing, just putting cards into your hand. I don't think I ever really explored that, though.
Posted By:
SkyknightXi
(5/10/2012 10:26:56 AM)
The only good playing experience I've ever had involving this was when someone dropped it in a multiplayer game, causing a rather fun instant alliance between the other three of us.
Posted By:
kazenpaus
(10/23/2012 9:11:31 AM)
So which is better, this or Demonic Tutor.
On the upside, Demonic Tutor saves you some life, and gets you what you want right away, for {B} less.
On the other hand, this gets you what you want, and basically everything else in your entire deck.
Hmmm.
Posted By:
Masters_Edition
(12/27/2012 9:21:02 PM)
The original. Often imitated, never duplicated. The epitome of card advantage by attrition and the card that set the standard for all of its descendants. Not even my beloved Phyrexian Arena comes close to this card's potential. And yet something feels all too Phyrexian, nay Yawgmothian even, about this particular spell.
As it stands, I can think of no scenario where a card like this could ever see the light of day outside of Vintage that didn't entail the whole of the game being forever turned on its ear.
Pure power, plain and simple. The card's name really says it all.
Posted By:
R1p_v4n_54u3r
(12/18/2013 11:51:21 AM)
Compare this to Greed, which came before it.
POWER CREEP
Posted By:
OlvynChuru
(5/8/2014 2:22:05 PM)