I guess it's not an atrocious deterrent, but having two or more on the board is worthless. I don't think I'd ever use this in a deck unless it had a reasonably cheap cycling.
Posted By:
bloatation
(7/1/2009 5:09:06 AM)
how come i don't see anyone comboing this with Arc Trail or Forked Bolt?
Posted By:
fishguyaok
(1/7/2011 7:09:29 AM)
I use this with Desperate Ritual spliced onto any arcane card that harmfully targets a player. Ironically, in multiplayer, the target of the copy can concede to counter the copy and break the chain, buying everyone else a bit more time :P
Posted By:
izzet_guild_mage
(7/3/2010 12:56:02 PM)
Psh. Red-white self-burn deck. Play purity and lightning bolt with this. Try flame javelin or lava ax. You just need a lot of mana. At the very least, there is Trace of Abundance to help with that. (Fireball with Purity would be fun, actually! And manabarbs!)
That's it. The next deck I build will either be green-black (I tried one already, but I didn't get it right, but I'm not ready to give up yet!) or Red white self-burn.
Posted By:
UltimaCenturion
(8/23/2009 10:14:54 PM)
This is good not because you're going to get to use it much, but because you're not going to use it much.
It's very presence is a very powerful deterrent to your opponents.
Posted By:
HairlessThoctar
(3/26/2010 10:11:21 AM)
Actually can be very amazing regardless of what the others say.
"not bloody likely your gonna get targeted with anything when you have the land untapped."
Good. Then you wont be targeted at all, that is definitely an up for 3 mana.
Not only that, you can target yourself with something, then copy it repeatedly if you have the mana open. This also works well against counterspells, it can anti-counter everything they attempt to counter. This also works crazy with some cards that suspend, for instance a Ancestral Vision or Arc Blade or if you are brave and run black, Curse of the Cabal would be an insane combination. It can give you infinite red mana if you keep copying a Desperate Ritual spliced with another Desperate Ritual.
Posted By:
Gheta
(4/10/2009 9:51:10 AM)
Great in the mirror... pun intended. And yes I am doing this to every card with mirror in the name.
Posted By:
CatsAreCthala
(1/15/2010 10:09:30 PM)
Might be playable in some formats (EDH?) if it targeted spells that don't target you.
Posted By:
DestinyGuy
(3/16/2009 4:23:03 PM)
Meant to fight red decks? Even though it's a red card?
...weird...
It's not even worth the status of being a common, let alone a rare.
Posted By:
DragonLord132
(8/30/2009 2:51:51 AM)
not bloody likely your gonna get targeted with anything when you have the land untapped. thats why these effects are printed as instants. same reason declaration of naught sucks.
Posted By:
davidhuman
(2/26/2009 12:18:49 PM)