Dark Withering
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Used in a deck that gets bonuses from discards I think this card is nothing less than awsome.
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Posted By: wickedragon (11/20/2010 3:14:01 PM)
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Unless you can pay it for its Madness cost (like discarding from an 8-card hand during the respective phase, or using other means like Frantic Search) I can't imagine it ever being hard-casted. It's CMC is really steep.
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Posted By: rareibis (12/20/2011 12:32:21 PM)
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This card's cost would've been fine at BlackBlack. Even if it has Madness, I don't see why it has to cost 6.
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Posted By: Omniance (11/29/2009 4:23:20 PM)
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Rendered basically useless by doom blade...
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Posted By: Volcre (8/23/2009 12:35:15 PM)
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*Sigh* For six mana, you could remove the non-black clause, guys.
Really. This card is...*Shakes head*
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Posted By: DoragonShinzui (3/12/2012 4:09:52 PM)
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If you're running a huge amount of self-discard, it might be worth running. But I would honestly rather pay 1 more for Doom Blade for cheap kill.
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Posted By: MisterUndueAlarm (3/27/2011 10:09:26 AM)
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Pretty usable in Reanimator, lots of discard spells and abilities.
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Posted By: Schlapatzjenc (1/31/2012 7:45:35 AM)
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The hardcast cost didn't have to be so expensive.
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Posted By: Axelle (4/5/2012 11:58:52 PM)
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People need to stop thinking of Dark Withering as "A six-mana Doom Blade with a nice added bonus of having a really cheap Madness cost." The point of this card is to build around the madness cost. Don't simply treat the cheap madness cost as a pro and the high regular mana cost as a gigantic con. It does not matter that its regular cost is so high, because you aren't supposed to pay that cost. If you have this card in a deck and you are not frequently casting it for its madness cost, you are using it wrong and you should replace it with something else. In the right deck, Dark Withering is better than Doom Blade.
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Posted By: OlvynChuru (4/28/2014 8:26:23 PM)
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You know, I think this card would be better received if it didn't have a standard mana cost at all, and only the madness cost. Because that's how it's supposed to be played anyway.
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Posted By: Totema (6/2/2014 1:26:35 AM)
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