It's safer than Platinum Angel. The Angel can stop you from losing, but when you're in negative life, all the opponent needs to do to kill you is nuke the Angel. The Emperion, however, puts your life total into stasis. When the Emperion is killed, your life total is still where it was when it entered play. It's also much larger and can hit for more damage, minus evasion. People complain about poison, but this has applications outside of the set.
Posted By:
Zulp
(9/24/2010 12:51:16 PM)
This and Melira, Slyvok Outcast are a great combo.
Posted By:
xanderao
(6/7/2011 8:12:49 AM)
Sooo. . . technically this makes Necropotence unplayable and Oath of Lim-Dûl playable. Crazy, huh?
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(2/10/2011 9:52:30 PM)
Playing constructed against a Phyrexian mana deck? Throw an arrested copy of this at your opponent with Bazaar Trader to shut down his/her ability to pay life for Phyrexian mana and follow up with infecters.
Posted By:
ToidiDiPuts
(6/5/2011 12:41:43 PM)
@Pikashoe: Until they Final Judgment. See, this is why I love Final Judgment. It stops people like you who think they find "unstoppable" creature based combos.
Posted By:
Ratoly
(10/2/2010 9:16:51 PM)
I'm always very hesitant to play good black creatures that have "when this creature enters the battlefield, you lose x life" or any other pain cards, but not anymore. With this guy in a black or red deck you dont have to worry about taking damage yourself, sucks that it's vulnerable to destroy creature and destroy artifact, but still looks like a mighty fine card to me
Posted By:
drakattak
(9/23/2010 4:49:41 PM)
hIS aBILITY sHOULD hAVE eXPANDED tO pOISON cOUNTERS. mAYBE pREVENT cOMBAT dAMAGE? oUTSIDE oF tHE sET hE wAS pRINTED, hE iSN'T bAD tHOUGH.
Posted By:
eTHERIUMoFmASTER
(2/3/2011 6:55:15 AM)
beast, better than platinum angel.
Posted By:
lilzhang
(10/2/2010 11:03:41 AM)
Lest we forget Platinum Angel was an M11 Reprint too... I personally wouldn't mind having a couple of both in my deck. There's more than enough efficient mana ramp now to do so.
Posted By:
BladeMichizure
(9/29/2010 6:44:12 PM)
"If your opponent has no removal or alternate win conditions. You win the game."
Another example of a card where you want to grab the designer by the neck and shake him.
Posted By:
surewhynot
(9/25/2010 2:07:39 PM)