Everyone thinks of using this as a "Safeguard" against damage... But what happens when we turn Eternity Vessel into an offensive weapon?
Sanguine Bond + Tainted Sigil + Eternity Vessel = owch
This way, whenever you use the landfall ability, your hurting your opponent.
Posted By:
Redeemer707
(2/14/2011 5:02:08 PM)
Having played against this multiple times now (one of my usual playing partners primarily uses a green/white landfall/lifegain deck), I can tell you - it is VERY difficult to counter, especially in lifegain decks. Of course, all you have to do is destroy it - but if you can't for whatever reason, dealing enough damage can prove nigh impossible.
In my strongest deck (a black vampire deck), it can go either way - generally I'll sacrifice a hexmage to nullify it (though if he casts Narrow Escape, he can get it back out again with reset counters). He gains a lot of life, I gain a lot of life, and it comes down to who gets the gamebreaking cards out.
He has some great tactics for using it though - he'll often hold onto a land each turn, even if it's the only one he has and he hasn't played one yet. Land is handy, of course, but so is resetting your health to ~40 (he generally has it up to 40 as he'll play some sunspring expeditions and not sacrifice them until he's about to play the vesse... (see all)
Posted By:
JaxsonBateman
(10/11/2009 8:52:09 PM)
This seems like it would be useful in green, because you could get it out pretty early, and you get plenty of lands. I mean it only takes 1 card slot and can heal you multiple times, so it's not too bad; even if it is lifegain, and easily destroyed.
@DarthParallax Horcruxes are just lame versions of phylacteries, which we already have in Magic.
The way this card works is, it imprints a current version of yourself when you first visit it, and then if you ever return, it makes you that person again. I can think of about five other things that do that in myths, mostly magic trees.
A horcrux is just a way to cheat death, and poorly in comparison to other methods that are easier and/or indisputably better. If I remember correctly, you have to put a piece of your soul in a horcrux, therefor making you weaker.
I mean Voldemort did that like 7 times, and then got killed by a freaking baby.
And people called him the most powerful wizard.
Just saying.
This card shares nothing in common with an... (see all)
Posted By:
ZakFrost
(10/11/2011 8:25:22 AM)
This isn't a card for FNM, and it isn't a card for top tables. Wanna know why? Two words and you'll read it alot particularly at FNM: Vampire Hexmage
Posted By:
Lestat13
(10/4/2009 9:53:55 PM)
Romance of the card VS Reality of the card
Romance: You drop the Eternity Vessel while you have 16 life and your opponent never figures out how to inflict enough damage before you drop another land to reset your life...
Romance: You are able to reset your life as needed until you can establish your own path to victory...
Reality: 6 mana casting cost; By time you can cast this normally, it may be too late life wise to make a difference. If you only have 6 life left when it enters the battlefield, your opponent should be able to figure out how to kill you before a landfall reset.
Reality: Desperate to draw a land in a timely fashion, your shields are down for too long and you die.
Reality: Your opponent simply destroys or returns Eternity Vessel back to your hand.
I am tempted to play this artifact but I need to overcome it's disadvantages before I can rock it's advantage. I can't just put this in a deck ... (see all)
Posted By:
liir007
(10/7/2009 5:28:58 PM)
A combo with Inner Sanctum might be fun.
Posted By:
Pantheon
(9/30/2009 10:31:56 AM)
@Redeemer707 I like the way you're thinking, but there's a technicality that you failed to notice. Eternity Vessel allows your life total to become something, which is not technically considered gaining or losing life. Also, even if that wasn't the case, you would need something to do with all that life you gained in order to gain more life from Eternity Vessel. Something like Necropotence, as ghostie1337 pointed our.
I was thinking something along the lines of Eternity Vessel + Phyrexian Processor + land. Then, if you can manage it, Isochron Scepter a Twiddle.
Posted By:
beefrocks
(6/30/2012 8:16:00 AM)
seems useless, in lifegain u never want to lower Ur life, otherwise: Ur live wont be that high that u can wait for a land.
Posted By:
Shikadi
(9/25/2009 1:15:52 PM)
This card bugs the crap out of me. It's a Mythic Rare landfall card, yet it has little use in your average landfall deck. It's just one of those cards that forces you to make a deck entirely devoted to it, instead of just working well as an addition to most decks you'd use it in. Forced Johnnyness is not fun, it's just...dumb.
Posted By:
surewhynot
(6/26/2010 11:51:16 PM)
So....it's name is 'Eternity Vessel'
It's a Mythic Rare...
You get to store your life in it, but only as much life as you have at the moment...
Multiple Eternity Vessels would get annoying incredibly fast...
and they are all lost in your Binder of Requirement.....
and NOBODY'S made a HORCRUX REFERENCE YET??!!?? I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE INTERNET?!?! *facepalm
Tezzeret is a Hufflepuff, because he FINDS this. xD
ZakFrost, you're pretty wrong about Horcruxes. First of all, the most Famous Horcrux of all, Sauron's One Ring of Power, was indisputably the most powerful weapon in Fantasy ever made. Wearing the Ring, Sauron could have defeated anyone.
Your oversimplification of the plot of Harry Potter is common of internet critiques, but it misses a major point- JK Rowling redefined the limits of what Deus Ex Machinas are supposed to be able to do for Harry. He had NOT only a Prophecy, NOT only a Brother Wand effect, BUT ALSO a Blood Ritual connection from Voldemort's Rebirth AND his mother'... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(3/14/2012 6:05:19 PM)