... so i got into a 7 man free-for-all today... killed everyone except 1 person who surrendered turn 6. dealt 14 damage each in that turn. ended with 43 health(while getting focused). This card also works good in combination with Rhox Faithmender assuming you didn't get exquisite blood out. ***ed off everybody at the table too...
Posted By:
nabit
(4/19/2013 10:30:33 PM)
Sunspring Expedition! While probs a bit less reliably bonkers than some of the other suggestions here - I made a decent semi-creatureless control/combo deck that builds up Expeditions, Golden Urns and other pop-for-lifegain permanents, then slams the Guildmage down for 5 and pops everything. It's less resilient than using Sanguine Bond as a win-con, but it feels more fun somehow.
As a couple other folks mentioned, Tainted Sigil is a star player in that build as well.
It'll double your damage for each one on the field (usually 2, by the time I get the Guildmage down!) and in multiplayer, with even one Sigil on the board, unless life totals have got out of hand, you can kill all your friends by popping a single Elixir of Immortality.
Posted By:
Heathspook
(7/10/2013 6:21:32 PM)
1. Necropotence, or any other card that allows you to pay a large amount of life without a mana cost. You won't actually need to draw the cards. If you have more life than any given opponent, pay as much as the opponent with the highest life has life remaining.
2. Activate Vizkopa Guildmage's second ability. This costs {1}{W}{B}.
3. Sacrifice Children of Korlis to gain all of your spent life back, dealing that much damage to all opponents.
(Optional: if you didn't have a life lead)
4. Phyrexian Reclamation, or any other spell that returns a creature from your graveyard to your hand or play (but this one is cheap and repeatable). Return your Children to your hand for {1}{B} and 2 life, play them again for {W}. Sacrifice them again to double up on damage (+2 if you used Phyrexian Reclamation), and get a huge lead on all opponents.
It's complicated, but a lot of components can have other non-ideal things take their pl... (see all)
Posted By:
NobuTheBard
(10/14/2013 9:26:33 AM)
So what exactly IS a guildmage? I mean what do they do in the guild?
Posted By:
kinghydra510
(10/26/2013 11:48:58 AM)
This guildmage screams "Kill Me" Oh you didn't hear it? =)
This guildmage scares the shit out of me
Posted By:
DeathFromAbove-1
(12/9/2013 9:03:11 AM)
@Kinghydra510 Guildmages are just the average spell casters for the guild. Not as powerful as more important commanders or planeswalkers, but they still are able to use magic, not just weapons.
Posted By:
bobw123
(3/13/2014 4:56:02 PM)
How to kill everyone in multiplayer:
step 1: play guildmage
step 2: play gray merchant
step 3: activate second ability
step 4: Proceed to not have friends
You can easily do this with 4 or 5 lands if you have crypt ghast out.
Posted By:
thePROJECTION
(4/16/2014 9:22:21 PM)