What a lot of people are missing is that anything that targets the player with this card on the field is null and void. Trample targets the player thus...cant trample them. Sanguine Bond is out the door too, not to mention countess other things. JMS is dead. But how many cards in standard destroy enchantments, not to mention that Blue can cancel it if its not on turn 0! come on people!!! think!! you can beat this card.
Posted By:
Farin
(7/30/2010 4:11:21 PM)
Who cares if it basically ruins monored and other annoying strategies? (namely a few planeswalkers). Monored is too powerful in this environment anyway, and walkers will always have help from their expensive elemental buddies (colonnade and tar pit and friends). This card is awesome, and it's only your opponent's abilities so you can do whatever. 5 stars or Gideon rapes you out of frustration.
Posted By:
ZombieSnail
(7/10/2010 6:31:00 PM)
As a fan of RDW I honestly don't even see this card getting a lot of play in blue white control, maybe I'm wrong. We will see.
Posted By:
KnockK
(7/8/2010 9:55:45 PM)
@ R&D:
Read the comment from trowa_barton03. Everything he mentioned should make it obvious:
This card should have been GREEN !!!
Red also has a high support of damaging spells that deal damage to EACH player. A Lightning Bolt dealing 3 damage to a creature is still worth it. But there aren't many discard spells that target all players/opponents. Blue mill effects become useless, as well as many other abilities. Also noticable:
"Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, that player does XYZ." bypasses the shroud effect. And which color has the biggest fpcus on combat situations??? IT'S GREEN.
So wake up R&D, WAKE UP!!!
+ no discard
+ no mill (see Hedron Crab)
+ no donation (see Jinxed Idol)
+ no sacrifice (see Consuming Vapors)
+ no graveyard hate (see Haunting Echoes)
+ no extraction (see Sadistic Sacrament/autocard... (see all)
Posted By:
Cheza
(6/7/2011 5:12:30 AM)
When this card first came out I used to throw these around my room for my dog to chase and fetch and now they spiked up to like 15 bucks! ouch!
Posted By:
Sword_of_T_and_A
(1/24/2013 2:00:41 AM)
I hate white, there's no reason for cards like this to exist.
Posted By:
Sterling_Archer
(5/25/2011 11:41:24 AM)
Red players might have to splash green in order to naturalize this son of a b****.
Posted By:
zeyette
(7/11/2010 10:20:14 PM)
My friend plays a burn deck. Poor him.
Posted By:
Blackworm_Bloodworm
(7/12/2010 6:47:47 PM)
I play such a simple brainless no thought deck and this card just shuts it down. LOL Good!
Posted By:
parabola1970
(12/26/2012 6:58:35 PM)
I hate this card.
Posted By:
Jahpocalypse
(7/15/2010 7:08:56 AM)