Got two at the prerelease... it was very frustrating for my opponents.
Posted By:
BALDOF
(1/31/2010 1:29:53 PM)
majinara, you're an idiot. By your criteria, Black Lotus is absolute garbage, and for that matter, so are lands.
They do none of the things that YOU require for a card to be useful. What do they do? They provide a resource. Mana is a resource, so is life. What can you use life for? How about surviving your own Earthquake, while it finishes your opponent. How about surviving a few more turns until you can afford your Cruel Ultimatum, or your Overrun? How about surviving your opponent's finisher, which he spent all his resources on, because he thought you were done for?
Posted By:
blindley
(7/11/2010 9:44:00 AM)
I hate when they play it on turn two. It basically enables you to start the game with 28 life. But it's good only in early game, later you may be disappointed, because you drawn Rest for the Weary instead of an useful creature or removal. Overall, this card isn't bad. I'd give it 3,5/5.
Posted By:
Demage
(6/28/2010 5:00:20 AM)
Fetchlands and this card doesn't work together, because If you had a land enter is binary. No matter how many lands that entered on your turn you will still get 8 life.
Posted By:
7pace7
(5/1/2011 12:15:42 AM)
You can't say that all life-gaining effects are bad just because you don't like the mechanic. This is a decent amount of health for the mana you're paying. Compare it to Angel's Mercy for example, which is 7 life for 4CMC. Getting 8 life for 2CC seems much better when you compare it to some other life-gaining spells.
Posted By:
Creyn
(3/23/2010 10:43:00 AM)
MY FAVORITE CARD IN WORLDWAKE
And considering I have the complete set, that's saying something.
Posted By:
land_comment
(3/24/2011 8:27:02 AM)
Yay! It's great if you're just looking for a straight-up cheap lifegain card to go with a strategy built around the mechanism ("Whenever you gain life, X"). Sanguine Bond is probably the best example, and the art is just so fitting for a 
deck.
(Perhaps I only feel so protective of it because I've been needing a card like this for my B/W Sanguine Bond deck, but I had to try and balance out majinara's bombardment :p. Casual players exist too)
Posted By:
Discoduck
(2/1/2010 11:36:51 AM)
majinara has never heard of felidar sovereign or sanguine bond I presume...
Posted By:
lorendorky
(2/1/2010 2:06:38 PM)
Finally, life gain that doesn't suck (martyr of sands excluded). Not too little life gained that it's useless, and not too much that it's broken. 4.5/5
Posted By:
Laguz
(1/29/2010 12:42:44 PM)
As Discoduck pointed out, this card isn't limited to just lifegain. I'm going to show you two cards, that cost 4cmc. It will fulfil one of marijana's....... "criteria" for a card. Feel free to come up with a comparison of a 4cmc two card combo that can do more than this.
False Cure + This. That's 8 dmg. 4 lightning bolts is 4cmc, and it takes 4 cards, and only does 12 dmg. Isochron Scepter this turn 3, and Isochron Scepter False Cure turn 2. Every turn, for 4 mana, you can do 8 dmg. You also have at your disposal the ability to gain 8 life. Or rather, to have any player gain 8 life. Playing a multiplayer deck with a black suicide ally? He'll last that much longer. Being focus fired by the enemies? You'll outlast their burn. This card is a ridiculous lifegain. Oh yeah, also, since it's not a replace effect, you can have multiple False Cure's stack, turning 8 dmg into 24. +8 life, whenever they gain life, lose 2 life for each 1 life gained, x2... (see all)
Posted By:
Psuedonaut
(2/12/2011 1:35:26 PM)