Rakdos Riteknife (Dissension) - Community - Gatherer

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The rating for this card is currently 3.333... A tad bit eerie, and I don't really want to change this.

That aside, this can be a great card. Throw this in a casual jund deck and it can become quite powerful. Or, for that matter, a goblin deck. You equip it to a sprouting thrinax/token of your choice, tap it to sacrifice it, and pay 2 to equip it to another creature/ one of the tokens you just made, which you sacrifice again. By turn six, you could force your opponent to sacrifice five, possibly six permanents, which is pretty devestating.

Now, if the equip cost one, or you didn't have to tap to sacrifice, or just didn't have to sacrifice, this card would be broken. As it is, it's pretty balanced and a good card.

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Posted By: ScepterofEternities (8/27/2012 1:33:38 PM)

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forgot to rate 5 stars all the way for a decent artifact that you can abuse in EDH

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Posted By: IExorI (1/10/2013 5:55:50 AM)

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This card is taunting you with potential crippled by mediocrity so hard.
It almost hurts as much to think about it than getting stabbed by it.

I'd like this card if just it was for either one of these seven things:
(1)Tapping the equipped creature to activate the cost,
(2) The equipped creature got +2/+0 for each counter instead,
(3) The equipped creature got +1/+1 for each counter instead,
(4) Using blood counters rather than more comboable charge counters,
(5) The casting cost of

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(6) The equip cost of

, and most of all
(7) The Black

activation cost to sacrifice it.
So many possibilites that would have made this more worthwhile. Argh!
Without (1), this would have been the biggest difference, since you could simply have mass-murdered all your exposable creatures then in one go and immediately wreck your opponent. Which might be why they added Tap

. But that makes the +1/+0 boost even less useful, since you'll always want to built up the counters so you can eventual... (see all)

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Posted By: Mode (9/19/2013 9:06:29 AM)

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I made a sacrifice themed jund deck with this, savra,lyzolda,jund hackblade, some devour dudes, more hybrid colour dudes and gilder bairn, with a few planeswalkers like sarkhan or garruk for control and fixing.

This goes on gilder bairn, you sac tokens from mycoloth or sprouting thrinax and you use this guy to double the counters on the knife or a planeswalker, repeat if you have the mana, then somebody loses the game and somebody else loses a field.

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Posted By: Mr.Freshness-Timmy (3/26/2014 3:40:43 PM)

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