If you somehow gave the Blood Artist infect, it would not give the opponent any poison counters, right?
I'm thinking this is the case because it says, "target player loses 1 life" and not "Blood Artist does 1 damage to target player."
Posted By:
eheitzman
(5/10/2012 2:37:53 AM)
This is a great and balanced card in head to head. For the effect to trigger, I have to use my resources (mana, creatures,etc) to kill your creature. If my creature dies, I'm down a creature.
In Multi-Player it is completely broken. Another opponent's creatures are killed or an opponent gets bonfired, I'm just sitting there gaining life and dishing out damage. Much too strong for only 2 mana.
Posted By:
lostprophet912
(3/1/2013 10:26:58 AM)
Great casual combo with Dread Return, Demon of Death's Gate and Bloodghast. Managed to deal 18 damage to an opponent in one turn with two of these out using those.
Posted By:
Lifegainwithbite
(4/14/2013 4:21:00 AM)
This guy's cool. Get a couple of these guys and a bunch of junk onto the field, then play Killing Wave for zero. Sacrifice your stuff and sap the life from your opponents. It's not tournament-worthy, but it's definitely a lot of fun.
Posted By:
mimitchi86
(5/14/2012 10:15:16 PM)
Blood Artist and Falkenrath Noble created another game mechanic that, I'd say, really improved the way many decks play.
I play a mono-black Birthing Pod deck that primarily uses Geralf's Messenger, Gravecrawler and Butcher Ghoul as Pod-targets to find things like Diregraf Captain and Phyrexian Obliterator. I mostly play it against my friends human deck, and I easily find that I lose more life Podding than getting damaged.
That is, until I put Blood Artist in. My main reason why I didn't play him before is because Blood Artist slows my speed down by one turn, but after playing with it, it's a turn worth wasting.
After that, every time I'd Pod, I'd only lose 1 life, and my opponent would feel some pain as well. If I had 2 Artist's, I'd lose nothing, and my Geralf's Messenger hits my opponent for 4 instead of 2.
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Posted By:
Ferlord
(12/13/2012 11:19:39 AM)
My Reassembling Skeleton just made a new friend...
Posted By:
Voldrin
(4/26/2012 11:53:34 PM)
Aha! Looks like a Zendikar Vampire finally slid through the cracks in Innistrad.
This fellow belongs in a Kalastria Highborn deck with Bloodghast and Viscera Seer. Excellent flavor, design and art. 5/5
Posted By:
Hayw00d0909
(5/6/2012 3:36:31 PM)
@heartbreakerstudios
That wouldnt match the flavor as well as the cups of blood do. Plus it would be a lot harder to paint if you are bleeding from gashes in your arms.
Posted By:
C0nker3
(5/7/2012 7:30:30 AM)
Now that standard has sack engines like Cartel Aristocrat and Undercity Informer, the Blood Artist goes from mere impressionist painter to near renaissance artist levels of greatness.. Incredibly powerful when combo-ed with either of the above cards. It's the lethal part of a mill engine that assures me opponents will think twice about whatever they want to do.
Posted By:
GhostCounselor
(4/7/2013 7:30:31 PM)
I want to say his name like they say "Blood Ocean" in Metalocalypse.
Posted By:
brockdjwest
(4/26/2012 5:47:50 PM)