@Salient
"I play Naturalize" -- Oh ****.
@turtleknite
No, Salient is correct here. This card has two effects: it stops creatures from entering the battlefield from the graveyard or library, and it stops players from casting spells from the graveyard or library. These two effects are completely distinct and independent of each other. Effects that care about creatures entering the battlefield don't care how that creature entered. Also note that this card does not prevent you from bringing a non-creature enchantment, artifact, planeswalker, or land onto the battlefield from the graveyard or library, so long as you are not casting it.
The first effect hoses Natural Order, Green Sun's Zenith, Polymorph, Reanimate, Tinker (but only for artifact creatures), Vengevine, Birthing Pod etc. It will also prevent you from putting cr... (see all)
Posted By:
adrian.malacoda
(2/16/2012 11:02:45 PM)
I got one of these at the pre-release. I never played it that day, but it is still probably the best card I got.
The day this was previewed, my friends asked if I had seen "the cage" and I said "oh yeah, that one's going to be expensive."
This is going to be the for Dark Ascension what snapcaster mage was to Innistrad
Posted By:
shotoku64
(1/28/2012 8:24:11 PM)
I play both Dredge and Reanimator in Legacy (among other decks) and I don't think this card will be the end of those decks. Both decks are very capable of fighting this card. Dredge decks with Lion's Eye Diamond and Faithless Looting can often dredge fast enough that the Cage won't do anything (Dredge can also just destroy it with Nature's Claim and whatnot) and Reanimator has countermagic to fight it and bounce/Show and Tell in the sideboard to circumvent it.
That being said, I am annoyed that this card got printed. I mean, really Wizards? Another graveyard hate card? It's not like we didn't already have:
Tormod's Crypt
Planar Void
Withered Wretch
Coffin Purge
Leyline of the Void
Extirpate
Yixlid Jailer
Faerie Macabre
autoc... (see all)
Posted By:
Grand_Superior
(2/3/2012 12:00:16 PM)
Most broken card in DA. If they banned Mental Misstep in Legacy, there's no reason that this should stay legal.
Posted By:
AvatarofBro
(2/12/2012 9:55:17 AM)
For one mana, you shut down over half of the block. That's power.
Posted By:
BluthBanana
(1/28/2012 8:15:06 AM)
Also known as: *** you, Graveborn.
Posted By:
NoobOfLore
(1/28/2012 3:36:58 PM)
This is not a graveyard hate card. I repeat: this is not (just) a graveyard hate card.
People are only beginning to realize how powerful a sideboard hoser this is.
"I play Natural Order to go get Progenitus" -- No. You don't. Grafdigger's cage.
"I play Polymorph on a manland for my Blightsteel Colossus" -- No. You don't. Grafdigger's cage.
"I play Tinker tutoring up Sphinx of the Steel Wind or whatever" No. You don't. Grafdigger's cage.
"I play Green Sun's Zenith to speed out a Dryad Arbor" No. You don't. Grafdigger's cage.
"I play Oath of Druids which my entire Vintage deck is based around" -- Fine. You'll never get anything from it. Grafdigger's cage. Have fun just drawing all the uncastable creatures you were hoping to cheat into play.
I saw up to "graveyard" and thought, yeah, yeah, yet anothe----WAIT IT ALSO SAYS LIB... (see all)
Posted By:
Salient
(2/7/2012 11:29:06 PM)
Panglacial Wurm NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Posted By:
tcollins
(4/7/2013 12:11:12 AM)
I don't think this card is as much of a graveyard hoser as people like to think. Why? Because the second it's gone it might as well not have been in play. It can slow down a flashback deck for a while, but that's probably necessary right now. My friend tested out a Burning Vengeance/Secrets of the Dead deck recently and it's absolutely insane how much speed, damage, and card draw that thing can manage.
Most every graveyard deck should have an answer to this. Is it a super-fun card? Not especially, but then neither is Ratchet Bomb for Tokens and doulbe-sided decks. Like I said, once it's gone things just go back to normal. The inability to actually wipe the graveyard makes this much less of a threat than say, Nihil Spellbomb.
Posted By:
Pinto331
(1/28/2012 6:26:58 AM)
NO!!! DAMN YOU FOR RUINING MY STANDARD ZOMBIE DECK!!!!!
I would rate it 0.5/5 for ruining my fun, but I think I'll rate it a 4/5 for being an incredibly powerful--but answerable--panic button for WOTC
Posted By:
Superllama12
(1/26/2012 3:38:39 PM)