probably used only for its second ability alone with some kind of discard engine? If you use squee in black, then sometimes might as well use this.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(3/22/2010 8:18:41 PM)
Guys, you're overlooking the fact that you need to spend only one hundred mana to kill your opponent with this card. And then after all that, you get twenty life back too!
Posted By:
igniteice
(10/19/2011 9:35:41 PM)
The one use I can think of for this thing is arcane spells that either don't require a cost or barely require one, to use them every turn.
Even then, there are probably better options.
Posted By:
Galgus
(4/10/2012 9:17:14 PM)
@ CeremonialBathory This card works with Forbid in U/B without playing Squee. That alone makes this card useful. If you can't ensure you have more cards than your opponent in a deck with U/B, then you're doing it wrong.
Posted By:
JIntegrity
(10/10/2012 6:25:36 AM)
It should've cost like 2 less, agreed... but you guys seem to be missing the point. It's meant to be a reusable splice enabler, if you can maintain CA you continue to beat them down with mechanic, problem is the whole cmc was ridiculous in this set.
Posted By:
JARYISM
(11/13/2012 7:23:54 AM)
I figured out what's going on in the art. The dragon is whispering to her, "Guess what the mana cost of your card is going to be."
Seriously, this card is so flavorful, has an awesome name, and great art. What a waste for something this awesome, in theory, to be unplayable.
Posted By:
Reversed
(12/7/2012 8:34:28 AM)
Yeah its overpriced, but the kami block has a lot of cards still used today.
Anyways, you could do some neat tricks with this card, or just use it as a humiliating win condition when you already have them on lockdown.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(1/12/2013 3:12:28 AM)
All cool cards should be playable at the very least. I understand the need for bad cards, but why can't they all be simple? It's only going to be used by new players who don't have enough cards that they can replace it, anyway, so they won't mind bad cards being simple.
This card being so bad is just wasted potential. The effect is cool, but not only does the cost actively discouraging anyone with enough cards from using it, it also makes it hard to play it as intended even if you're willing to use it anyway. Who's going to have enough mana to use this over and over? A thousand stings would cost 5000 mana, after all. Make it cost B, THEN it could be used as the flavor suggests.
Posted By:
SleetFox
(2/21/2010 1:30:13 PM)
the effect is an interesting one, but the mana cost makes this card unappealing...
Posted By:
Mode
(7/17/2009 1:43:44 PM)
They need to make another one of these with a lower cost. Say B2 or BB.
Posted By:
sweetestsadist
(3/5/2009 1:56:30 PM)