The problem with this card is that it costs 5 mana and the highest {P} cmc is only 6. (Thundering Tanadon / Moltensteel Dragon) Sure, you could play it for 4 mana and 2 life, but you could also be using that mana to cast one of those creatures instead, and once you've already paid all that life for your more aggressive {P} creatures, you're not going to want to have a turn where you just play this and do nothing else. Maybe you could run this with Semblance Anvil, so that you can drop that for 3 and then drop this and one of the larger {P} creatures simultaneously during your next turn. Maybe.
But if this had come out a turn or two earlier and done damage equal to amount of {P} paid for the spell, or if it had cost 3{P}{P} like Norn's Annex, it would've been a much better card imo.
Posted By:
Wanderer25
(5/19/2011 1:57:54 PM)
there may not be many phyrexian mana cards, but with this they all hit hard. too expensive and exclusive for competitive but fun in casual.
Posted By:
PhyrexianFailure
(4/28/2011 5:39:04 PM)
I laugh at the thought of casting Slash Panther with this and Warstorm Surge on the board. I actually makes Slash Panther almost useful.
Posted By:
CarlosLiberated
(9/4/2011 3:16:12 PM)
Definitely making a deck.
Posted By:
Gabriel422
(4/28/2011 10:31:29 PM)
This card is brutal. If you run into a deck running this, prepare to lose a lot of life.
Posted By:
WateryMind
(5/7/2011 1:20:23 AM)
I don't have any cards with pee in the mana cost.
Posted By:
Tetsu_tora
(4/29/2011 3:49:01 PM)
Going to combine this with Corrosive gale ^_^
Posted By:
gcmjr21
(5/10/2011 3:00:33 PM)
@Tetsu_tora: I don't know, some of these cards stink liked somebody peed on them.Gut Shot
Posted By:
blindthrall
(5/9/2011 10:58:35 PM)
Posted By:
Drewsel
(5/14/2011 5:29:36 PM)
I say meh to this card. I used to have a where ancients tread deck, and it works fine casually, but it's no power house deck, and this is the same way. It has even more restrictions, and a lack of good cards with high cmc that use phyrexian mana. Unless your deck will be all molten steel dragons and slash panthers (and then green decks will eat you alive with naturalizes), most of the other cards with phyrexian mana are only 1 - 2 mana. I saw someone note corossive gale, but the cmc of that card is 1, so that doesn't work. It turns gutshot into a shock.. but then you could just play burst lightning. I just don't see this card making any big waves in constructed.
Posted By:
Donovan_Fabian
(5/11/2011 10:51:49 PM)