Strong enough to justify a faith's shield. Cards this powerful can be dangerous. Be careful of attacking with this when a naturalize will allow your army to be mauled. On the other hand, if they are tapped out, you can attack like mad knowing that they will not be able to swing back with enough power to undo the life gain.
Also, you cannot count on a blocked creature without trample gaining you life equal to twice its power. If it kills the creature on the first pass, it will not gain you any more life.
Furthermore, this loses a lot of value after Wrath effects, where for the same cost, Twilight Shepherd shines.
Posted By:
kiseki
(3/9/2012 5:42:57 PM)
I run this in my artifact/white Myr deck - works amazingly! Always (okay, for the most part though!) a game winner (through it down with 6-10 (if not "infinite") myrs with a couple Myr Galvenizers and a Myr Matrix, making them all 3/3-4/4 (Give or take a Myr Battlesphere or two)
A definite 5/5 in my book!
Posted By:
Admiral_Ferret
(5/9/2012 1:08:19 PM)
When I put Ajani Goldmane's Avatar on the battlefield and this, with each attack phase I made my life goes up TRIPLE times.
The art is fun, we call him "Zeus".
Posted By:
Autor
(5/20/2012 5:08:22 AM)
Ageless Entity
Posted By:
Pick15
(6/11/2012 8:35:14 PM)
This is a better, if more expensive and harder-to-splash, way than Krark's Thumb of effectively attacking with Goblin Psychopath. Just sayin'
Posted By:
ThinkOriginal
(7/22/2012 7:30:32 AM)
Fun with Rhox Faithmender
Posted By:
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
(8/28/2012 11:03:34 PM)
Unless it's immediately removed, it basically hands you the game on a silver platter. Double strike is crazy good, and lifelink will keep you alive even if you can't strike the winning blow immediately.
Posted By:
DoragonShinzui
(10/25/2012 5:39:09 PM)
Play this in my EDH enchantment deck, but it does tend to make everyone turn on you. I had a 1/1 unblockable creature hitting for 16 with some enchantments on it, and every one started casting all their hate spells on me, killed all my creatures and then me, but they never got rid of of this card LOL.
Posted By:
blazestudios23
(12/3/2012 2:18:12 PM)
@Cheza:
White is the primary colour of first strike and it has loads of double strike tooo...:
Mirran Crusader
Fencing Ace
Silverblade Paladin
And then there's the countless Boros double strikers that incorporate white. In fact, white probably has more double-strikers than red.
Posted By:
Lifegainwithbite
(3/24/2013 12:53:02 AM)
@cheza Each color doesn't do just one thing. White is the color of preparedness, sure, but isn't having an extra spear or something being prepared? And lifelink has and always be white. Never has it been red. At all. Just no.
Posted By:
atemu1234
(4/20/2013 8:42:26 AM)