@DarthParallax: Gisela, Blade of Goldnight isn't strictly better though. She's got 3 less P/T, is 
(non-monocolored casting costs are usually seen as a drawback), and she's legendary (so you can't make hundreds of her somehow if you wanted to).
Of course, if you're playing Kaalia of the Vast, why not run both? The Avatar's main drawback is that it isn't an Angel, Demon, or Dragon.
Posted By:
Trygon_Predator
(5/6/2012 3:08:22 PM)
Mars, bringer of war.
Posted By:
Zoltantf
(5/11/2012 1:24:38 AM)
Might as well have called this "EDH Game-Ender" or something similar. Hilarious.
Posted By:
forumbrowser
(6/18/2012 10:45:37 PM)
End target game
Posted By:
Androx
(8/11/2012 1:07:05 AM)
Amusingly, in EDH, diplomacy still exists once this hits the field. It becomes not do you attack, but who do you attack.
Posted By:
DoragonShinzui
(10/7/2012 8:43:35 AM)
@Lord_of_Tresserhorn
too bad by the time you could use the mana from seething song to cast reverberate, seething song is no longer a valid target for reverberate because it will have resolved. you can only use a reverberate effect on a spell that is on the stack. and good luck drawing that exact god hand pretty much ever, let alone anywhere near consistently
Posted By:
LordOfGraves
(11/11/2012 2:06:08 PM)
The turn after you cast this, if you and the avatar are still alive by then, cast Sunblast Angel. Or Insurrection. Insurrection works too.
Posted By:
GrimjawxRULES
(12/19/2012 7:15:03 PM)
This guy has earned himself a permanent spot in my reanimator deck after I managed to reanimate him turn 1, followed by Elesh Norn on turn 2 allowing him to single-handedly kill the opponent on turn 2. Said opponent went through the roof. :3
Posted By:
Dargenom
(1/24/2013 9:08:18 AM)
The grand finale for my W/R deck involves having at least two lightmine fields out (out of a possible 4 in the deck) and then dropping this fellow after my own combat faze once several creatures have populated the field. I let everyone reek havoc on each other and then mop up whatever's left.
Posted By:
A_Real_Travesty
(4/2/2013 9:23:25 PM)
I love this card. While I don't run pure beatdown decks generally and don't really identify with red's lust for combat and hot-headedness (although I do like red cards in general) I still like the flavor text. The art is incredible and the name is awesome. Is it bad if I put him in my multiplayer Politics deck as my finisher? Not because my opponents want me alive and it on the field to get double strike with. I mean to literally finish them with a card whose flavor text states that, "Diplomacy has solved nothing" in a deck revolving purely around procuring favorable diplomatic relationships.
Posted By:
EvilDarkVoid
(4/15/2013 2:18:03 PM)