This has to be my favorite card from Dragon's Maze. It feels so mythic, but it's not which is awesome. I once cast this for 16 on FNM. Long live the Orzhova!
Posted By:
All_Is_Dust
(5/21/2013 8:25:05 AM)
I love {X} mana cost cards that get better and better the more mana you spend on them. This one, specifically. Say you're playing a four-player game. Would you pay 5 mana to gain 3 life and have each opponent lose 1? Of course not. Would you pay 8 to gain 12 life and have each opponent lose 4? I certainly would.
Posted By:
SirLibraryEater
(5/25/2013 4:16:35 PM)
I want to run a multiplayer 
mana ramp deck around this card.
Grand Abolisher is a great for throwing a spanner in the works, too.
Posted By:
Fenizrael
(6/1/2013 3:25:07 AM)
I run two as finishers in my Dega control deck that usually wins through damage straight to the face.
Absolutely brutal, and great art. Looks like a mythic rare but isn't which is amazing.
Posted By:
TheBringer
(6/6/2013 1:02:10 PM)
I got me a playset of these, A playset of Council of the Absolute and a group of soon to be not friends. Seriously, with his comboing with The Vizkopa Guildmage and being so easily rampable with Crypt Ghast I would be suprised to not see this get any constructed play besides me. ITS JUST SO ABUSEABLE! 
Posted By:
Tugnbud
(6/14/2013 5:04:16 PM)
Strictly flashier than Exsanguinate.
The math here doesn't add up to it being a good option unless you are putting in a ton of mana, and if you can do X=8 or some such with this, you are probably at the point in the game that you don't need to. If your black/white deck is doing its job they should be properly softened up for a finishing blow. No need to cast an X spell for the win anyway, I have cast Exsanginate for a few life before and it has won me games turns later.
Still, great art, an awesome name, cool concept and the word double will make this hit many an EDH table. It will probably be devastating at those times anyway, and it will be totally rad, so I am all for this card!
Posted By:
Enelysios
(6/29/2013 3:21:25 PM)
Sure would be a pity if someone cracked a Tainted Sigil after this, don't you think?
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(7/15/2013 9:16:50 PM)
Sanguine Bond plus this. 4 damage for every extra mana paid.
Posted By:
orzhov20
(10/19/2013 12:48:59 PM)
Super-powered Extort, the Orzhov keyword in this block. Ironically, it plays poorly with actual Extort cards because of this; except in fairly rare cases, the mana you would use to Extort this would be more effective if you just poured it into {X}.
Posted By:
EvilDarkVoid
(11/25/2013 6:50:06 PM)