Doubt this will ever be good, proliferate or not. Even IF you draw it early on and play it during the first few turns, and even IF you live long enough to sac it later for 10 life or so... it still sucks. Lifegain is only good if it is a free addition on cards which are worth beeing played even without the lifegain. A card that does nothing but gain life has to suck. And this is horribly slow to boot. Even if you gain a billion life you can still lose. Not to mention if you draw this card late game, oh boy...
Posted By:
majinara
(10/4/2010 4:42:48 AM)
I'd rather have the worst spellbomb to enable my metalcrafting. never less than the 23rd card in your deck.
Posted By:
ZEvilMustache
(9/25/2010 7:15:33 AM)
It could be used as metalcraft enabler in limited... but i can't imagine how bad boosters need to be, to leave you without better alternatives...
Posted By:
Gavrilo
(9/28/2010 6:45:59 AM)
I have a question. Could you sacrifice this card and gain life as an instant? Let's say, for example someone played a naturalize targeting this artifact, could you technically negate that spell and gain the life by simply sacrificing this card?
Posted By:
mikee_rules
(1/16/2011 10:43:53 AM)
it would be better if the cost was to remove all the counters rather than sacrifice it. Pretty 'meh' card.
Posted By:
luca_barelli
(10/29/2011 5:02:12 PM)
I put this card into the earliest version of my pauper cube, before I really got a handle on what I was doing as a cube designer. One of the first things I learned: lifegain stapled onto another effect is pretty solid, but cards that gain life and do nothing else just don't cut it. This was probably the worst late-game non-land topdeck in my cube. Maybe I'd include it in a Mirrodin-themed cube where metalcraft and proliferate matter, but nowhere else.
Posted By:
PauperCubist
(8/9/2012 5:06:23 PM)
It's basically a more comboable take on Serra's Hymn.
Not just because you can put it in any deck,
but also because charge counters are far easier to play around with than verse counters.
Fair pick in limited I'd say, where it has its use as Metalcraft enabler, and can be proliferated to increase its potential.
Posted By:
Mode
(11/18/2013 5:24:01 PM)
This was incredibly annoying in limited, especially when all the Infect went to other players :/
3/5 Stars
Posted By:
Hunter06
(1/17/2014 6:50:02 AM)
wonder who is in it
Posted By:
pudginamancer
(2/14/2014 7:14:52 AM)