I got hit by this once and still managed to win the game. Was terrified when it went off though, was staring at like 10 or so cards left in my library by the end... god bless burn is all I can say.
Posted By:
psychichobo
(10/7/2012 10:25:03 AM)
It's alright. Unfortunately this is an expensive card to cast and *can never* finish the game, meaning that you go through the excruciating practice of counting your deck, then counting half your deck off for little effect. IMO if you're doing it for the sake of milling, I'd recommend building around sanity grinding or just cheap mill cards.
That said, aside from counting, this is a fun effect and really flashy; but most of the time you'll get more cards out of a T1 hedron crab or so. They should only be at ~20 cards by T5 anyway making this a glimpse the unthinkable
My very first deck was a combo deck filled with Clockspinning, Living End, and Traumatize and tons of off-color slivers. It was pretty bad.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(4/15/2013 8:52:57 AM)
@OmegaSerris As an improvement on that method: pick up your library, then alternate between placing the bottom card of that pile face-down back onto your library pile and the top card of that pile into your graveyard. With that modification, the method matches every technical detail of Traumatize while also avoiding any time-consuming counting; though I do estimate it requires a bit more dexterity, and explaining the method to a stranger will probably negate any time savings.
Posted By:
KiteX3
(5/22/2014 7:38:43 PM)