You always want something like this in your deck as an alternate win condition. It works normally and works well, but it also works to ensure that you don't get them to 1 health and get stuck with Worship causing you to lose, or turbo-fog stalling you into oblivion.
This + Geralf's Messenger + any sac outlet => 6 life, 7 if you go all in. Not bad if you're stuck not attacking.
This in multiplayer gives you an instant win condition against wrath effects and allows you to over-extend a bit. Sit him next to Harvester of Souls and you get cards, life, AND a win condition.
This is one of the things that causes me to run a lot of Plague Spitters and weenie wipes in mutiplayer. Small utility guys get out of hand quickly.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(7/9/2013 12:19:30 AM)
This card single-handedly kept me alive while my opponent was attempting to combo off using Skirk Prospector as a mana engine. Respect.
Posted By:
TheShadow344
(7/10/2013 9:00:54 AM)
also for funsies add deathgreeter
Posted By:
anondude87
(8/18/2013 5:33:48 PM)
My black white irritating as @#$% (doesn't win ALL the time but is certainly annoying even when it doesn't) uses this , Blood Seeker, Suture Priest and Soul Warden. Then I have Darien, King of Kjeldor and Worship and a few black tutors to make myself pretty well indestructible. After that I throw out something like Reiver Demon and watch the luls commence.
Basically the point was Blood Artist + Reiver Demon (Alternately Plague Wind)+ any non-black non-artifact token gen = hilarious if impractical in cast cost.
Posted By:
sojourner202
(8/21/2013 6:24:30 AM)
Hilarious how this became a $2 card at my local card shop simply out of demand, and I had pulled so many of them i literally gave my cousin ten of them. When i saw the price at the shop, though, I had him give them back. That and they're damn useful.
Posted By:
atemu1234
(1/2/2014 3:42:03 PM)
This in a sacrifice deck along with Grave Pact is brutal. It can really potentially lock down an aggro deck too if you manage to get multiples of either out. Attack? I chump block, you lose. Try to stall? I play Damnation, you lose. Heck, even deciding whether or not to your creatures becomes a lose/lose situation for your opponent as if they're not careful their board could be wiped and they they'll still lose a ton of life to boot.
Posted By:
Reishyn
(1/5/2014 12:55:32 AM)
One of the best 2 drops for Black. A cruel choice for any opponent, either waste a removal card on a 0/1 and take the 1 point of life loss, or risk taking a higher amount of life later with a board sweeper.
Posted By:
chrome_dome
(3/8/2014 9:53:52 PM)