Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.
This card is referencing Dark Banishing.
Posted By:
Missile_Penguin
(3/11/2012 3:21:29 AM)
Why is the rating on this so low? it's a 1 manna doom blade.
Posted By:
Gezus82
(1/20/2010 5:29:52 PM)
Deserves a higher rating IMO. Yes, it's obviously terrible in most decks, because doom blade/dark banishing exist. However, in decks built around madness, it's a doom blade for one mana. More narrow than doom blade, but still a card; since I'd give doom blade a 4, I'll give this a 3.5/5.
Posted By:
Dustylou_2
(5/17/2012 10:21:41 PM)
Not as bad as people make it out to be.
There's plenty of effects that make you discard a card to do something based off its CMC. 6 is a pretty good amount for those effects... and you get to destroy a creature along with it for only {B}. And then there's all of the "Draw X, then discard Y" effects; you get to draw cards and kill a creature for dirt-cheap.
Posted By:
Diachronos
(9/9/2010 10:08:50 PM)
I think people are missing the point, it's supposed to be terribly overpriced because you can cast it almost for free if someone makes you discard
Posted By:
imsully2
(4/9/2012 11:14:23 PM)
Personally I like this card when used with Spellbound Dragon, by attacking and chucking this card you get deck-thinning, +6 power till end of turn, and a destruction effect pre-block, all for the cost of 1 black mana. It's an expensive card when hardcast, but if you have a few effects that require discards, this is a solid choice, and although I'm not usually a fan of discard effects due to card advantage, the dragon mentioned above actually gives you a +1 card advantage before the discard and therefore choice.
Posted By:
Tiplady
(3/1/2010 11:32:52 AM)
I keep my blue/black deck stocked with four of these. I'm constantly drawing and discarding cards, might as well kill a few things on the way. This + Looter il-Kor or Undertaker is very nice.
Posted By:
Velex
(2/12/2010 2:15:14 PM)
@ Volcre and Omniance: It cost so much mainly to make players want to play it for it's madness more. It also works great with Spellbound Dragon, but it also helps it agains Spell Blast and Spell Burst.
Posted By:
wolfbear2
(4/4/2010 6:08:06 PM)
the 6 mana cost is actually an advantage against older counter spells. Spells like this and cards with suspend where made expensive so that they would be harder to counter or destroy.
Posted By:
Yozuk
(12/20/2009 6:48:16 PM)
Good if you can discard. Worthless if you can't.
@Yozuk Like cancel? Cancel came out this set.
Posted By:
Omenchild
(4/17/2010 10:14:35 PM)