The potential for this card is huge, and I don't understand complaining about the X cost. X cost cards are traditionally 1 mana more expensive than non X cost cards that have the same basic effect. if you have, say, seven mana, then you can cast it for 3. Compare this to 3 casts of Lobotomy This just saved you 5 mana. It's well worth the cost starting at casting it for 2 even!
Granted, playing it for one is expensive at 5 mana, but the option of the X is almost worth it. Plus, at the point in the game where you would cast this, your opponent probably has some of his or her strongest cards in their hand.
The only way it could be better is if instead of X being the number of cards, it would be the number of copies of this spell, allowing you to A. Target multiple opponents in multiplayer games and B. use the copies to activate Consuming Aberration (or Circu, Dimir Lobotomist in non-standard formats.0
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Posted By:
TheMentalProdigy
(1/30/2014 3:00:48 PM)
@ferlord
Let's look Putrefy and Murder and see if they cared about obsoleteing a 2013 card. It is sad how bad most of the Dimir cards got gimped, I would have loved a card like you came up with honestly.
UPDATE: I am sorry, did I say Putrefy? I meant Hero's Downfall
Posted By:
cotf1692
(3/1/2014 5:59:54 PM)
The comments have soo many ways of making this card playable and fun to use. Its really a shame that we end up stuck with this instead of any of them. :/
Posted By:
EvilDarkVoid
(4/7/2014 5:48:57 PM)
There is at least one really great play with this card. Play Esper Control. At end of opponent's turn, when he has played at least 2 horrendous threats (like Voice of Resurgence or Stormbreath Dragon), cast Aetherize, or even better, overloaded Cyclonic Rift. Then your next turn, you get to pull them out of his hand, along with all the rest of them in the deck. You could potentially remove all of a deck's serious win conditions this way.
Posted By:
Technetium
(4/9/2014 9:49:16 AM)
put one of these in my espercontrol deck and against mirror matches it was Ludicrous, of course my opponent tap out for sphinx's rev and then my turn came around boom tap out for a reap intellect for 6 cards, and pretty much it was gg. doesn't do too bad against mono black devotion or anything that can seem to be aggro; but regardless i think this card is awesomez
Posted By:
MageTheBlack
(4/22/2014 7:44:30 AM)
The only really good part about the card is how angry people get when you successfully pull it off in a game. Something about getting hit with such a bad card really makes people flip out.
Posted By:
mooshimanx
(4/22/2014 2:50:03 PM)