Yes lots of ways to abuse this. Here is mine:
How about This + Garruk's Horde + Phyrexian Devourer?
Cast the creatures that cost 3 or less out of your deck, and exile the other cards. Do this at instant speed before any counters resolve and kill the Devourer.
Lots of ways to win at this point, but here is an interesting one:
Four of them should be Laboratory Maniac, and four should be Elvish Visionary.
As soon as you have at least one visionary on the stack, exile any others that come up, so that a couple Maniacs will resolve earlier and you will win the game instead of losing it.
Posted By:
kiseki
(3/12/2012 7:11:14 PM)
oh what the ***
WHAT THE ***
threatening your opponent's family is more fair than this card
Posted By:
metalevolence
(3/31/2010 4:24:20 PM)
I think the "any player" clause was meant to make it "fair". In the sense that dropping a twenty-ton weight on your opponent would also be fair. Goes very nicely with Animar, Soul of Elements as your commander.
On an unrelated note, what's the flavor of this card? Is this an enchanted rainforest where animals jump out unexpectedly at you?
Posted By:
Trygon_Predator
(4/17/2012 2:06:31 PM)
are we all just going to ignore the flavor text?
Posted By:
CogMonocle
(6/21/2013 11:37:58 PM)
Fantastically broken. I simply do not know what else to say.
Posted By:
Polychromatic
(3/13/2011 10:52:43 PM)
Why? What madman designed this?
Posted By:
Shadoflaam
(9/15/2011 12:39:35 PM)
This card is madness, and a ridiculous amount of fun in multiplayer, especially when your deck is rigged to feature low-cost creatures and Glimpse of Nature
Posted By:
GrimjawxRULES
(5/30/2012 1:23:10 PM)
1. Aluren
2. Phyrexian Dreadnought
3. Respond to the casting of Dreadnought #1 with another Phyrexian Dreadnought
4. Dreadnoughts hit the battlefield, their abilities go on the stack
5. Sac one Dreadnought to the other
Posted By:
uchuunamako
(6/4/2011 3:56:49 AM)
This was in one of the Tempest block pre-con decks, back when Wizards put good cards in them.
Posted By:
Cyberium
(12/3/2011 6:11:51 PM)
I love how Aluren's price jumps to $15 every three years because the Legacy Aluren combo deck is winning tournaments again. People forget about it long enough, they don't playtest against it, WHAM they die to infinitecreatureflashbang.
There are only two combo decks that have survived in Legacy (with no bannings) and have placed tournament top results for longer than five years: the deck built on this card, and the High Tide deck that uses Reset and draw spells. (Three combo decks if you count all Tendrils decks the same, but Tendrils tends to come back strong only whenever there's a new bomb draw card, like when they printed Ad Nauseam.) Aluren doesn't get banned because it doesn't dominate, because the combo deck is very hard to learn to play well -- 9 times out of 10, after a match you're thinking "oh god I could've won if only I had thought to do..." even if you're a seasoned expert.
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Posted By:
Salient
(2/17/2012 3:48:12 PM)