Anggul,
Swerve ??? Round two with a dark ritual will be met with pacifism or perhaps Geth's Verdict or you will suffer quickly.
Posted By:
Guest488791010
(11/16/2011 12:38:11 PM)
@OmegaSerris
Alright, I'll cast Withstand Death on my Little Girl and then sac half of it. Next turn, block with half my Little Girl.
Posted By:
Gerbil_Lord
(11/21/2011 5:32:29 PM)
Obliterator in my opinion is not under costed as some people are saying. when wizards 'increases' the cost of a card and make it more colorless mana it's normally like 1color'd symbol for 2 colorless.
so if you wanted to bring it to the 1 black mana negator used it would be like 6colorless 1 black, I don't think anyone would say 7 mana for a 5/5 sometimes sack things dude is undercosted.
also the jump from 3 mana (negator) to 4 mana is fairly large.
Posted By:
thaviel
(11/24/2011 1:32:58 PM)
I'm not really experienced enough to comment on whether or not this guy is overpowered (pros: obvious, cons: dismember in same set, mono-black non-infect not being all that great right now apparently). Definitely intimidating, though.
As for those arguing that 2 colorless mana = 1 colored mana...Do you think that if Wurmcoil Engine cost 3 black mana (BBB), that that would be balanced? Or if Emrakul, the Aeons Torn cost 7 or 8 green (or any other color, really) mana? Or even worse, if Blightsteel Colossus cost 6 colored mana? Even if something like Solemn Simulacrum cost 2 mana, even green mana, it would easily overshadow every other 2-mana ramp spell out there and all the wolf run decks would run 4 copies.
Posted By:
Ultimario
(11/27/2011 2:40:03 PM)
Has anyone thought of Mirrorweave? I had two of these guys on the field in my last game, one Shrouded and one not so. When the guy next to me swung at the kid across the table, the guy had board domination, so me and my friend knew we had to do something about it. My friend was holding a Mirrorweave.
When the boy was about to concede, we told him he had to declare his blockers, so he did, buy throwing all of his little 0/1 eldrazi in front of these 7 tramplers the guy controlled.
My friend Mirrorweaved my Obliterator, and suddenly, mister "I own the board, you guys are screwed," became "Crap, I have no permanents on the board anymore." Boy dies, guy scoops, my friend flies over my head and wins the game. It was awesome.
I truly hope we see more "fight" cards coming in the future, because there are awesome, and they were dumb enough to print this guy, with a mechanic like that.
Posted By:
TAGVoar
(11/28/2011 5:41:30 PM)
@LadNarum
How is it shameful to use this card in anyway, if you are duel colored he's harder to play, if he's given pro from the defending color he's unscathed, if you force backlash damage to him with a redirect off a burn spell, he's a great card with huge advantages, but his biggest down side is most anything can kill him before he does anything, in most situations you'll be "Yay I played an Obliterator" then come the opposing turn, "Oblivion ring, Beast within, go for the throat, or any kill spell that'll hit him." I know I play 3 of him and 4 metamorph, and especially against monogreen he sucks bad, what good is a super blocker like him when the Opponent has a Bellowing tanglewurm?
Posted By:
BlackRoseDani
(12/1/2011 5:24:50 PM)
4 CMC for a 5/5 is pretty good compare to some vanilla creatures out there.
Trample, even better.
Sacrifise a permanent for every dealt damage to him? WHAT?!
5/5
Posted By:
SgtSwaggr
(12/7/2011 6:00:06 AM)
This guy would be even more rigged if non-red removal did damage. Thank goodness that's not the case.
Posted By:
Tapir
(12/8/2011 4:06:36 PM)
@TheRosewater
I used to think that unblockable stuff. But you are forgetting half of the turns of the game.... yeah, it actually Makes you sacrifice when blocking. That's why the text isn't changable.
I got two of these out of my first five Magic Boosters ever. Since then I knew, even though I didn't like it much at the beginning, I had to play black. Obliterator is a supernova.
After playing looots of games with them, there are two things I can say for sure: it is Definetely the best option for you not to block it. No trying to wither it with Boggart Ram-Gang. No super sacrificing to save you, cause this is what Obliterator's controller is praying for...
And what you should be praying for is removal.
Posted By:
joker53
(12/14/2011 6:18:49 AM)
I know this thread is old but i just gotta say i made a Mono Black Agro deack wth this card its BOSS just a quick question do they Sac as many Perms as you do damage or just up to 5
Posted By:
Hammerbrother
(12/16/2011 11:34:19 PM)