Love the new art. The old art did have a nice 'back alley' type of look to it, which fit the theme of the card beautifully, but this new art screams pain. "Give me my cards or suffer!" Unfortunately, I'd almost always rather have three cards. It's kind of like casting Dash Hopes. You're probably going to use it against a spell you really want to counter, and they're probably just going to take the five damage, which leaves you saying, "Well, I guess them taking five damage is better than nothing." Otherwise, if you use Dash Hopes against some spell they don't care about, they let it counter, and now you've just done a 1 for 1, but you'd rather have had them take the five damage.
Here just as well, I can't imagine anyone saying, "I sure hope they take the five damage so I don't draw my next three burn spells."
Posted By:
igniteice
(3/15/2013 9:00:47 AM)
Throw in Vexing Devil and Dash Hopes while you're keeping with the Punisher theme.
Posted By:
RocOfKherRidges
(3/16/2013 11:19:20 AM)
I really like the whole "great effect unless..." theme in Tibalt's deck. I also the semi-appretiation of devil tribal in the deck, but it FRUSTRATES me so much that Vexing Devil, the perfect overlap of these two themes, is not included. I don't care if it would unbalance the deck, I just want PERFECTION!
Posted By:
Frenzy13
(3/20/2013 3:27:50 PM)
Love the reprint, can't believe the rating is so low. Gotta use it creatively, throw it down with Gisela, Blade of Goldnight on the field. Your opponents when faced with 10 direct damage will almost always let u draw 3 cards. Plays really well with Rakdos, Lord of Riots aswell. Amazing card, but the old art is definently better.
Posted By:
Shredmonster
(3/15/2013 8:42:03 PM)
The opponent choice thing can be bad, but in this case both outcomes tend to be the same: either this card burns them in the face, or you draw cards that you then use to burn them in the face.
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(5/19/2013 5:00:09 AM)
Amazing card, and love the new art!
Posted By:
FlashCaster
(5/26/2013 5:24:33 PM)
A nice reprint with cool new artwork
Posted By:
flavioal28
(3/14/2013 4:32:47 PM)
Does anyone else think this is made to be a partner to the new brainstorm art? Faces in the clouds, draw three cards. If nothing else they're quite similar.
Posted By:
Nonprofitparrot
(3/22/2013 12:46:19 PM)
Browbeat
Verb
Intimidate (someone), typically into doing something, with stern or abusive words: "a witness is being browbeaten under cross-examination"
...Pretty much.
Posted By:
pedrodyl
(4/11/2013 1:06:19 PM)