According to the rulings text at the bottom you can't activate this ability unless an opponent has 2 cards in their graveyard. If they get removed after the ability is on the stack it still goes through and the attacker is destroyed, but you do need to have those cards there to start things up.
Posted By:
ddde
(8/9/2010 4:35:37 PM)
The ability requires three valid targets to be used, two cards in a graveyard and an attacking creature.
Posted By:
Atali
(9/2/2010 9:21:13 PM)
The Judgement cards like this guy and Pulsemage Advocate have great synergy with Shocker-style draw/ discard effects; the Shocker ensures that they have cards in their graveyard to target with the Advocates, then the Advocates ensure that they have cards in the hand for the Shocker to mill.
Posted By:
BegleOne
(11/17/2010 9:31:53 PM)
Funny.
It has three targets, which means that if up to two of them is illegal upon resolution the ability wont fizzle^^
But you still have to have three legal targets upon activasion.
So instant-speed moving cards from the grave could prove usefull.
Posted By:
theis999
(11/28/2010 1:17:36 PM)
Good for a black/white discard deck?
I dunno, I like seeing this sort of flavor on a white card. Especially since similar black counter parts destroy them at the end of combat, then again, it ain't much of a "drawback" compared to 2 more cards in your opponents hand.
I definitely like the mention of Shocker or even it's hulkier offspring, the Barbed Shocker. I love those cards to death.
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Posted By:
Deepfried-Owls
(5/13/2011 6:30:45 PM)
Well i m first on it .
I think this guy is full of power since :
First it s a one drop creature .
Second , since you are removing a creature on the battlefield you can say that s returning a creature's card is no drawback and you are having a very powerfull effect that can change big threat to less threat that in plus the opponent must re-cast ... just taping this small guy .
Sure you won 't play dragon Rahji against this or what ever creatures that has drawback on cast .
Third ,then the only drawback is that you must return a second card but the cost is not that bad for the powerfull defence this one drop creature is providing to you .
Just think only about the second point , this card would be so much powered !!!
You get this power for the third point and that s well cost i think !
Posted By:
MojoVince
(4/4/2010 4:51:10 PM)
You're wrong WhiteyMcFly. Since returning the cards isn't part of the ability's costs he doesn't have to have cards in his graveyard. Therefore combining it with graveyard remove effects like Relic of Progenitus would be a good idea.
Posted By:
Ameisenmeister
(7/31/2010 2:19:25 PM)
My problem with this is that you have to fill the opponent's graveyard. That really only makes it playable in a R/W burn deck. Often times I find myself with this card on the field and the opponent having but one card in the graveyard.
Posted By:
WhiteyMcFly
(4/25/2010 8:23:21 PM)
Sacrificing card advantage for huge mana and board advantages has its uses. Especially in multiplayer. Put him in a weenie deck that packs Windfall, for example
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(5/6/2011 8:29:41 AM)
I thought this card would be awesome in multiplayer, because anyone who attacks you will really regret it, because one of their creatures will die and one of their opponent's will get two cards of your choice out of their graveyard. And, I could do it once a turn with virtually no cost to me, so I could use it to make allies by helping people out.
However, when I tried it out, whenever ANYONE was attacked, they'd tell me to kill the creature attacking them (like it was my duty or something) and to top it off, to give them back two cards as well. Whenever I refused, they'd get all sullen (because they get hit by a creature and are denied two free cards) and then proceed to conspire against me. Or, whenever I did kill the creature, that creature's controller would see me as a bigger threat than his opponents and start aiming at me.
This card definitely makes you more enemies than friends. Spurnmage indeed.
Posted By:
Asmodi0000
(11/20/2011 10:20:57 PM)