Too expensive for vampire decks.
Too expensive for discard decks. (it doesn't even discard!)
Irrelevant human sacrifice ability. (compare to ravenous demon or falkenrath arisocrat)
limited Garbage. Worse than Ravenous Demon in every single shape and form.
(edit) In Response to Splitzer:
1) Artifact. Yes, I can see how that would be useful. The problem with your argument is that here you're saying that this single creature is better than Ravenous Demon (and I am talking about Ravenous Demon, not Bloodgift Demon, although I think you just mislinked since you seem to know the demon I'm talking about) against a single kind of deck. Regardless of artifact/tempered steel's proliferation in standard at the moment, that still makes this card nearly worse than the demon in a large majority of it's matchups. You are also forgetting that your opponent chooses what card to exile, and that it's enti... (see all)
Posted By:
RAV0004
(1/30/2012 11:32:35 PM)
Commander Review: I guess the regeneration won't be available most of the time, so we can think of it as a bonus that will rarely matter. Else... it's average. A 3/3 flyer for five mana is bad. If your opponent has no cards on hand, or has a blocker, this guy does nothing. If your opponent has cards on hand that are of a color you don't have access to, it's a bad specter. It's only interesting if you have access to the same colors as the opponents you attack, and if you can make sure it connects. But the more colors you have access to, the larger is the cardpool you can choose from when you build your deck, and the better the cards have to be to warrant a card slot. Or in other words: the better this card, the higher it's competition, the less likely it will be included.
2.5/5
Posted By:
majinara
(1/30/2012 12:28:05 AM)
Was the star of the show in my draft games this even.
Constructed, would make a good sideboard in a vamp deck against decks of your own colors.
Posted By:
Psion
(2/3/2012 9:38:19 PM)
The first time I connected with this, my opponent decided to give me a land...
one fun thought - add this to a deck that has a lot of bounce effects, maybe combined with discard to keep their hand small.
if they have no cards in hand, then you Silent Departure their best creature and swing... unlikely to pull it off, but it seems fun.
Posted By:
PastProphet
(2/4/2012 9:51:34 AM)
So if you play a card that was exiled by Fiend of the Shadows, does the card return to being exiled once it leaves the battlefield (either from being destroyed or being an instant/sorcery)? Or does it go to the owner's graveyard?
Posted By:
jonci
(2/6/2012 1:10:32 PM)
Goes nicely in a B/W human sacrifice deck. Spam tokens and keep swinging whenever they're open, and whenever they aren't you have a blocker you can regenerate.
Posted By:
VirusVescichetta
(2/9/2012 2:10:14 PM)
If you have to pay the mana cost, isn't this only useful against colours you have?
ps. Im a magic noob.
Posted By:
adny22
(2/12/2012 1:52:29 PM)
Not that powerful.
But it could be interesting for a discard/bounce casual deck, since this will allow you to play the permanents you return to your opponent's hand, particularly lands.
Play with Reflecting Pool and put even more stuff on your side.
At least if you manage to get through with this fair lady, which gets easier when you can bounce potential blockers.
Posted By:
Mode
(2/18/2012 9:13:17 AM)
Sphere of the Suns to get their color and ramp up to the fiend.
Praetor's Grasp to steal a land of their color, see their deck, or to get a choice on what you steal.
Posted By:
dontmess17
(3/25/2012 8:08:48 PM)
im a fiend of that crippy blunt freebase coke rock and latina *** sex, i do all three at once............oh good art
Posted By:
MasterOfEtherium
(4/18/2012 6:55:01 PM)