If you are playing a pure infect deck, you wouldn't need this. Just kill him with the infect, why are you dilly-dallying with discard anyway? You cant even sac this in response to removal, since you'll need to do combat damage.
If you are playing a discard deck, there are better specters.
2/5
Posted By:
immelmann
(4/29/2011 11:55:42 PM)
Ever feel like you can only hit with your pumped Plague Stinger once before it gets killed?
Like Dark Ritual a lot?
Want to play infect, but hands getting in the way?
Well we have good news
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(5/17/2011 2:23:04 AM)
Counterintuitive. Blind Zealot is the best of the cycle.
Posted By:
blindthrall
(5/10/2011 3:00:22 AM)
I really love the artwork, which is rare for this set.
Posted By:
RJ.693
(5/13/2011 1:52:37 PM)
my favorite of the cycle (only if you're playing infect of course, but even if you're not it's automatically 1 card). others are furnace scamp impaler shrike and blind zealot
Posted By:
garabor
(4/28/2011 1:23:06 PM)
So it punishes you for being closer to death.
Posted By:
Leonidus78
(4/28/2011 8:58:20 PM)
Wow, why is this card rated this low? This guy is a beast!
In my UB proliferate/infect deck this baby can go something like this:
T1: Swamp, whatever
T2: Swamp, Trigon of Rage
T3: Island, Whispering Specter
T4: Pump it with Trigon of Rage, hit for 4 poison, sac it and opponent discards 4 cards. GG! And I still have a U mana open for Turn Aside in case my opponent goes for removal
If thats not a game ender I don't know what is....
Posted By:
Saverok1786
(5/16/2011 9:42:56 AM)
Slap a Lashwrithe and watch the cards fall out of your opponent's hand.
T1: Swamp, Your choice of discard spell
T2: Swamp, Plague Stinger
T3: Swamp, Whispering Specter
T4: Swamp, Lashwrithe, pay 4 life, swing for a potential full hand dump
This card isn't anywhere near as bad as some say, but it's definitely not the sexy choice, especially with Phyrexian Crusader the go to 3 drop. I run a mono black infect deck that runs a lot of hand disruption and when I connect with my Specter it usually empties the rest of their hand. In the right deck he can fly pretty high.
3.5/5
Posted By:
Deco_y
(6/7/2011 1:08:26 AM)
Overcosted imo. Plus infect really doesn't need discard. Marginally useful in limited but not playable beyond that.
I think they were goin for a infect version of Liliana's Specter, but came up a bit short.
Keep in mind Plague Stinger.
Posted By:
Names_Suck
(4/28/2011 6:43:20 PM)
Looks cute at first, but still sucks. A 1/1 flyer for 3 sucks, even if it got infect. And it's ability is pretty useless too. It would be best to sac it, when you can't deal any damage with him anymore. But since you can only sac it when it deals combat damage, that won't work. Also, it makes sense to sac it when your opponent got alot of poison counters. But when your opponent has a lot of poison counters, and you can keep hitting him with this infect creature, why would you sac it?
It just doesn't make any sense.
Posted By:
majinara
(5/2/2011 9:27:55 AM)