@darkfury: Check out WotC's new Commander decks. Not a block, not quite a set, but they are designed around the wedge color sets.
Posted By:
A3Kitsune
(6/11/2011 11:34:04 PM)
"Vae victis" means "Woe to the Vanquished" in Latin. Asmadi/Asmodi (as he is referred to in the comics) is likely a reference to the demon Asmodeus.
Posted By:
Okuu-chan
(1/3/2012 7:27:22 PM)
I recently started running one of these in my jund deck, and really, he works well.
Fire breathing off any land is great, trample is easy to provide, and three mana a turn isn't much on turn nine and later. Sure, he'd like haste, but what big flying dragon without it doesn't?
I've found he has a weird synergy with the fearsome Hellkite Overlord, in that (in my play group at least,) he gets blocked far more than the overlord (probably due to the combo of trample and regeneration). Allows good damage to get through.
However, he still looks like an eel.
4/5
Posted By:
Sharu
(3/26/2012 4:40:26 AM)
Kaarthus, Tyrant of Jund sort of replaces this guy.
Same colors, same casting cost (effectively), and same 7/7 flying dragon. But Kaarthus gets haste, which they had barely invented back then, which does a lot more good than firebreathing on a guy with a mana-based upkeep cost.
Decent for its day, poor Vaevictis Asmadi just can't measure up to Nicol Bolas. Still, his name is cool.
Posted By:
Radagast
(9/25/2012 1:50:42 PM)
This guy is less directly related to the other Elder Dragons; he is their cousin. Nicol Bolas, Arcades Sabboth, Chromium Rhuell are brothers, and have Palladia-Mors as their sister.
Incidentally, this opens up the option of Vaevictis talking about "his cousin Nicol".
Posted By:
BigBer
(3/21/2013 3:09:01 PM)
3.5, including a little thrown in for nostalgia. This was my favorite dragon at the time the set was out. Back then, my friends and I were all awful at magic. We played 100-card decks, and a typical game could go for a couple hours. This card was so devastating when it came out (and it came out often enough in those games).
Posted By:
Technetium
(4/4/2013 11:56:08 AM)
land_comment:
Here are the 20 Most Legendary Dragons of Magic: the Gathering
ELDERS
Arcades Sabboth, the Protector
Chromium Rhuell, the Relentless
Nicol Bolas, The Eldest
Vaevictis, the Destroyer
Palladia-Mors, the Preserver
PRIMORDIALS
Treva, the Renewer
Dromar, the Banisher
Crosis, the Purger
Darigaaz, the Igniter
Rith, the Awakener
STARS
Yosei, the Morning Star
Keiga, the Tide Star
Kokusho, the Evening Star
Ryusi, the Falling Star
Jugan, the Rising Star
PLANESHIFTED
Oros, the Avenger
Intet, the Dreamer
Teneb, the Harvester
Numot, the Devastator
Vorosh, the Hunter
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(6/29/2013 9:12:18 PM)
They should make a Trybrid mana symbol just for this guy. :P
Posted By:
Megadog
(10/12/2013 5:55:35 PM)