Kiss your precious Esperites, Arcbound, and Myr goodbye. Kataki can tax your opponents ridiculously if they've got an Artifact deck. Take out some copies of Disciple of the Vault - because those artifact-lovers are going to lose at least a few artifacts to Kataki's wrath. Throw in a few Saltblasts (pick off lands in order to reduce their mana supply), a little more creature removal, and an Indestructibility or two, and you have yourself a soldi W/B artifact-hoser deck.
Posted By:
TheTraitorKing
(1/9/2010 5:21:54 PM)
A blowout against affinity, if they can't remove/counter it. It basically reads, "All permanents you control have an upkeep cost of 1."
Posted By:
justicarphaeton
(12/14/2010 10:10:29 PM)
Does anyone else have the idea of using this with Mycosynth Lattice? Your opponent would have to sacrifice things first...
Posted By:
tcollins
(7/11/2011 5:09:25 PM)
Man, you would think that this card is pretty self explanatory. However, about half the times I pull out this card, I get asked "your upkeep or mine?" What a silly question.
On topic, I use this as a side-board card in the Modern format. I can't think of a better affinity-hoser than this.
Posted By:
beast89
(11/22/2011 5:09:04 AM)
Hilariously stubby arms.
Posted By:
Opined_Fluke
(12/13/2012 4:35:23 PM)
"Hey Kataki, remember that block that came before us?"
"Yeah."
"*** it. *** it hard."
Posted By:
ClockworkSwordfish
(12/20/2010 9:57:50 AM)
Good in EDH, just not as a general.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(8/14/2010 2:38:58 PM)
This card's pretty sweet. At the time this guy was a little silly, well until u realized the block before this was Mirrodin. This is an absolute BOMB in extended and completly destroys affinaty.
4.5 out of 5
Posted By:
flippythekist
(4/30/2009 4:18:51 PM)
Definitely good againts artifact decks.
Posted By:
SavageBrain89
(5/23/2009 2:21:48 PM)
This isn't the most definite and powerful artifact hate (compared to cards that just destroy all artifacts or give them a life-loss upkeep cost, for example), but it's certainly the most efficient. Cheap as all get out at 2 cmc!
Posted By:
RunedServitor
(7/20/2012 6:08:13 AM)