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I thought MoE was funny this time. Plus, who doesn't want him to be operated on by a Phyrexian?
Posted By:
NeoKoda
(4/2/2012 10:04:44 PM)
hey, i need a ruling on this: can phyrexian splicer's ability be used as an instant?
sidenote: (spell check thinks "phyrexian" should be spelled "anorexia" lol)
Posted By:
doggtagg88
(4/20/2012 1:05:06 PM)
It's cool to do a search for "splicer" and find out that everything with that name is a Phyrexian card.
Posted By:
Kelptic183
(9/16/2012 8:17:00 PM)
They should reprint an updated version of this card... on a creature, preferably.
Posted By:
Lord_Ascapelion
(12/3/2012 9:55:31 PM)
Actually, while it's really only going to be seen in casual, it's kinda neat. You can screw up combats really badly by taking a giant flyer and smashing it into the ground in front of your defending friend. You can drop a flyer on the attack to get a flyer, or you can grant any creature First Strike if you or an opponent control a first strike creature.
How best to use this ability? If you control a flyer, a first striker, or a shadow guy, you can attack with them. Then when you're attacked, swap the ability onto the other. OR in the case of first strike, if they block the one without first strike and let the FS creature through, you can swap it to kill the creature that blocked the non-FS creature.
Things like this are usually threatening enough after someone has seen it work once or twice that they'll stop blocking; meaning you don't have to spend that 2 mana and this acts as kind of a better Dolmen Gate
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(7/15/2013 11:28:33 PM)
I seriously hope Wizards considers printing a modern variant of this card in some form. It's an interesting mechanic, and it's SO close to carving a niche for itself in EDH. The only thing that's holding it back is the additional tap in its activation cost.
Don't see it? Ok, lets consider this in a mono green deck list. Green has always needed answers to flying creatures. Without the tap cost this card would almost be on par with downdraft defensively. In fact, for even numbers of attacking flying creatures the activation cost is effectively the same, except with this card you can pay the cost with colorless mana. This is primarily due to the fact that for each flying creature you downdraft, you can assign flying to a blocker. For odd numbers of flying attackers it's nearly as good, requiring n+1 colorless mana for n attacking flyers. That slight difference in cost is reasonable when you consider the additional utility this card provi... (see all)
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breath_of_life
(3/3/2014 7:53:07 AM)