Those two abilities work great with Alms Beast; your life-giving lumberer can now mach your opponent in life gain and help take a butt-ton more away even when it's chump-blocked.
Posted By:
Splizer
(3/10/2013 6:07:02 PM)
Crypt Incursion or Gnaw to the bone in a mill or self-mill deck / hoof re-animator as an alternate win-con ?!! Edit: just not when it is just Lingering Souls , other instant token generators in their gy
Posted By:
TowerDefender
(5/8/2013 2:25:28 PM)
Now that Dragon's maze is out.
Guildmage second ability + Debt to the deathless for 5 = WIN for {6 C}{B}{B}{B}{W}{W}{W}.
Made even easier to ramp into with the mana rocks from this block.
Posted By:
Shadowcaster3975
(6/2/2013 3:25:41 AM)
Oh....oh my...I just realized that the guild mage's second ability scales with the number of players in a game when you pay an extort trigger. If I am in a 4 player game (me + 3 opponents), I trigger this girl here then cast a spell and pay a single extort trigger I end up gaining 3 life and all my opponent's lose 4 life. That's disgusting. I want 4.
Posted By:
Flyheight
(1/23/2013 2:55:08 PM)
And now there's a Sanguine Bond in standard
Posted By:
milez0
(1/22/2013 3:18:51 PM)
Works really well with Azorius Charm also.
Posted By:
Cyberium
(1/23/2013 2:30:59 PM)
All of a sudden, Exquisite Blood looks a whole lot sexier.
Posted By:
Gcrudaplaneswalker
(1/23/2013 7:41:15 PM)
Can't wait to throw this in my Selesnya deck. With Rhox, Trostoni, Armada Worm, and this gal out I can tap her and 3 mana and throw down Cloudshift for 1 mana and BOOM! I gain 20 and my opponent loses 20.
Posted By:
Bookmeister
(1/24/2013 8:17:24 AM)
That second ability definitely warrants further exploration. I'm digging the art too.
Posted By:
Towers76
(1/23/2013 9:10:44 AM)
Don't forget to cast that second ability multiple times, to double, triple(etc) it's effect and lead to victories even without Exquisite Blood infinite-ness.
Use Crypt Ghast for extra manas, Play Obzedat, Ghost Council and let him cycle out. Next turn you can pay (2)(B)(B)(W)(W) to trigger the 2nd ability of this card twice, in response to Obzee returning to the battlefield. You gain 2 life, which deals 4 dmg to your opponent. Obzedat can attack now and if you give it lifelink some more of your extra black manas and even if you get blocked they still take 10 dmg from you gaining 5 life. If they don't block they're at 1hp and i'm sure extort has proc'd before so that's probably game.
Best guildmage imho, just super abilities and they're rightly costed. 5/5
Posted By:
Vakyoom
(1/23/2013 8:54:41 PM)