@majinara: Why wouldn't Lignify work? This can be targeted by green.
This thing is just kind of unfair in limited. The uncounterable/supershroud effects negate pretty much all of the stock answers that any color can pull off. Sure, there are creatures that can trade with it in every color and miscellaneous answers in several, but most of them are rare or mythic so you have to happen to get one. You pretty much have to multiblock it and pray they aren't holding on to a Giant Growth.
Total answers for this card in this set at common/uncommon by color:
White: 0 creatures, 0 removal, 2 creature-boosting auras, 2 combat tricks.
Blue: 2 creatures (including Water Servant with pumping), 0 anything else.
Black: 1 creature (Reas.sembling Skeleton), 0 removal, 1 aura
Red: 0 creatures, 0 removal, 1 aura, 1 combat trick (Not counting Arc Runner because you won't be able to block with it unless you have Leyline of... (see all)
Posted By:
Artscrafter
(8/13/2010 8:05:33 AM)
May never see play in constructed, but this might be my favorite card from M11. It's fast, can't be countered, hits like a truck. Awesome flavor. Very few cards in M11 are more deserving of 5 stars.
Posted By:
Troutz
(8/14/2010 11:42:30 PM)
It's like supershroud! Woo! At least it costs seven the funniest thing is only a green creature can trade with this one on one, usually, so It sort of has pro non green.
Posted By:
ICEFANG13
(7/8/2010 12:11:37 PM)
Wah wah wah, this thing dies to the most overpowered creature in standard that losers decide to shell out hundreds of dollars to buy a playset and make themselves feel cool by owning them. I hate how Baneslayer Angel was reprinted...
But seriously people? This card owns. Period. The only removal it dies to that I know of atm is Maelstrom Pulse, and that cycles out soon.
Posted By:
Guntz1092
(7/16/2010 4:29:08 AM)
This card is the end of blue even with mana leak back. Jace can't react to it, other creatures aren't big enough to tangle with it, it can't be mind controlled or bounced, and it doesn't care about any sort of counter spell beyond mindbreak trap (which costs 4 and is rarely ever run). This has nothing to do with vengevine beyond being green and hasty, it functions in an entirely seperate role from vengevine, as a gigantic finisher for ramp decks such as eldrazi, gw, gu, and is great against pretty much anything. I can see graveyard return being really great for this creature as well, since a rise from the grave could bring it right back with hasty goodness, and in extended you can use torrent of souls to get an extra +2 on top of that for a 10/5.
Also, brutal blue killer target when you throw umbras on it, as umbras are a green spell. Vines of vastwood also works on this guy, which is incredibly brutal. It wont work almost anywhere else but a dedicated green deck and yet where ... (see all)
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(7/18/2010 11:06:59 PM)
I feel that Gaea's Revenge just got a LOT better now that it has Bellowing Tanglewurm to back it up.
Without the wurm, it would be generally useless against a fair bit of the metagame due to its inability to punch through Wall of Omens + Day of Judgment, and, more importantly, a lone Baneslayer Angel. Heck, even Vengevine could block it all day long with a sufficient supply of creatures. Worse, Reassembling Skeleton, and there's only one thing green can do about that in Standard...
I'm kind of tempted to run the Revenge alongside Behemoth Sledge or Mage Slayer in some sort of Extended Boss Naya deck. That would sure bother Faeries, amirite?
Posted By:
Ragamander
(10/2/2010 11:14:12 PM)
If i attacked say a wall of frost or a creature with deathtouch, would these effects work since they do not target anything?
Posted By:
Lacoste
(10/19/2010 7:46:33 PM)
This card is a commentary on the rape of the Earth being committed by humanity. Our greedy ambition (black) and smug, self-superior know-it-all-ness (blue) are deeply angering to the Earth; our shortsightedness (red) and absurdly naive belief in our own purity and innate goodness (white) raise its savage temper yet further. Only through a return to the ways of nature and an understanding of kill-or-be-killed, primal life in all its brutal glory can humanity avoid a hasty demise in the crushing grasp of Gaea herself.
Posted By:
ratchet1215
(7/9/2010 6:55:44 PM)
SMASH! CRUSH! DESTROY! ...thank god for white having hyena umbra. this guy LITERALLY screws people over ESPECIALLY esper and grixis decks. I'm kinda getting a vibe here that this guy was printed so there would be something OTHER than baneslayer to spend all of our moneys on.
Posted By:
U-caster
(7/8/2010 3:04:14 PM)
@TheMurderousKitten
Blind Seer doesn't work. You have to target Gaea's Revenge with a Doom Blade before you can change the Doom Blade's color, but Gaea's Revenge can't be targetted by it to begin with.
Posted By:
AlcariTheMad
(8/25/2011 11:43:36 PM)