this is an amazing card, especially in rise.
I pulled this in the prerelease and was hesetent about playing it, but it turns out that every time I played it I won the next turn. It's crazy in a set where you have so many eldrazi spawn. One game I had let a rapacious one swing a couple times then played this for 12 hellions. The only things in the set that can stop it are consume the meek and all is dust. And flavor wise it doesn't even make sense, 4/4 hellions do not seem very meek to me.
Posted By:
Gezus82
(4/18/2010 10:20:05 PM)
Combo with Rapacious One. That's fun.
Posted By:
divine_exodus
(11/10/2010 3:24:53 PM)
I got hit for 20 after my opponent dropped this over his Eldrazi Spawn in a draft. The next two games I triple-cast Nomads' Donkey-embly with Echo Mage. He conceded both times before I got a chance to copy the rebound and get upwards of 200 soldiers on the field.
Also @BlackAlbino
Start with N creatures.
Original eruption goes on the stack.
Activate Echo Mage ability: first and second copies go on the stack.
Second copy resolves: N creatures sacked; 2N hellions put on the field.
First copy resolves: 2N hellions sacked; 4N hellions put on the field.
Original eruption resolves: 4N hellions sacked; 8N hellions put on the field.
I count an 8x boost over the original.
Posted By:
altheuser
(5/29/2010 10:37:33 PM)
Just put the finishing touches on my budget spawn deck, with pretty good results against Jund, Goblins, and Blue/White control. Thought I'd share:
Creatures (20):
4x Nest Invader
4x Overgrown Battlement
4x Kozilek's Predator
4x Emrakul's Hatcher
4x Broodwarden
Spells (19):
4x Might of the Masses
4x Brood Birthing
2x Growth Spasm
2x Raid Bombardment
2x Eldrazi Monument
3x Hellion Eruption
Lands (21):
11x Forest
9x Mountain
There are a few win conditions: you can soften them up wtih Raid Bombardment and easily take half their life with Might of the Masses on an unblocked token. You can create a legion of bears with Broodwarden and then either make them flying and indestructible with the monument, or turn them all into Hellions if the Broodwarden gets rem... (see all)
Posted By:
achilleselbow
(7/25/2010 9:12:16 PM)
Think of it as a more stable Mass Polymorph, and more or less fun to play than that particular card depending on your play style.
If it were instant, casting it in response to a board wipe would be incredibly amusing.
Posted By:
Stray_Dog
(1/3/2011 11:24:48 PM)
Good:
+ works like a permanent giant growth for any 1/1 tokens you have, or more than that for 0/1 tokens
+ good with creatures you want to sac
+ good with creatures that you control for one turn anyway (if you steal them for a turn, unearth them, or they're like ball lightning suicide creatures)
Bad:
- Eruption sounds like something sudden somehow, so I'd expect this to be an instant or give the tokens haste, and it does neither
- Far too expensive. For a six mana card you could expect to get two or three 4/4 tokens by itself, without having to sacrifice anything
- Doesn't read "sacrifice any number of creatures". Since you have to sacrifice all creatures, you also have to sacrifice those you want to keep
- Narrow. If you don't have lots of creatures in play (ie if you topdeck it after mass removal) it's a dead card
- For the same mana cost you can also get a nice dragon or something
So all in all it's pretty bad. 1.5/5
Posted By:
majinara
(4/17/2010 2:47:01 AM)
works with mortician beetle too
Posted By:
Sacrier
(4/19/2010 10:26:38 PM)
Impossible to play with Mortician Beetle, Sacrier, because you have to sacrifice ALL of your creatures. Unless of course your opponent has a Mortician Beetle, in which case you just took a step backwards.
Posted By:
Yoto32
(4/27/2010 8:16:01 PM)
wery cool in all token decs
ally our 1/1 tokens become 4/4
your opponent just say:shit!
and then you win =)
Posted By:
thrallallmighty
(4/16/2010 1:39:35 PM)
Use in combo with Emrakul's Hatcher, Brood Birthing and Siege-Gang Commander. Ouch.
And for added pleasure, why not have a Magma Phoenix on deck before playing this to clear the decks. Alternatively, play a Caldera Hellion after the fact and your 4/4 Hellions all survive.
Posted By:
2blu4u
(7/12/2010 11:41:01 AM)