Bah! I thought this was an enchantment. Too bad.
I was using this as an enchantment + Breeding Pit in a Drain Life deck :(.
Posted By:
jerkoid
(10/17/2010 1:15:34 PM)
Not as good as dark ritual= 4.5/5
but damn good in suicide black and with zero cost artifact creatures
Culling The Weak=4.0/5
Posted By:
Aldonius
(6/12/2011 1:36:12 PM)
A agree that this is more Black than Dark Rit (which always seemed kinda Red...) and I know R&D is not loving Dark Ritual right now. So - maybe this is due for a reprint? ;-)
Posted By:
Plungingforward
(11/1/2010 9:35:27 PM)
This is a nice way to get rid of abyssal persecutor, or another one of your own creatures which might be bothering you. A little too risky for me, if it gets countered your creature still dies from sac.
@ratchet1215, PLEASE delete that trash post. Instants are not enchantments.
Don't be mislead, cards with the mana source card type were errated to be instants. (several years before ratchet1215's post lol)
Posted By:
RowdyRadish
(10/16/2010 11:43:32 PM)
Got it in my shade-deck (yes, i have a shade deck. I think it's funs. So suck it).
As long as the opponent knows there is a possibility that I can pump a creature with +4/+4 for a single B they won't attack me with all they've got. Yay for me :)
Posted By:
wickedragon
(4/27/2011 3:46:11 AM)
If you say anything other than 'Phyrexian Obliterator', or 'two Hymns to Tourach', you're wrong. Beatdown or Control, pick your Combo. Apostle's Blessing for the idiots with 'dies to X' on the tip of their tongue.
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(5/26/2011 9:21:16 PM)
This was from back in the day when they were trying to come up with the idea behind the stack, but just hadn't quite figured it out yet. There was about a year when all these cards were officially classified as "mana sources" (which worked basically the same way as what's now called "mana abilities") in order to make them work as intended with the proto-stack.
Posted By:
sonorhC
(11/4/2011 11:12:15 PM)
When I first saw this in a box of old cards, my friends and I thought it was an enchantment. :( That deck was outrageous while it lasted. Its best game ever with me on the play:
Turn one: Swamp, Culling the Weak (as an enchantment)
Turn two: Swamp, Wicked Akuba
Turn three: Swamp, Dregscape Zombie, sac it, unearth for B, sac it again (now have BBBBBBB in my pool), play Rotting Rats and we discard, sac it, unearth for 1B and we all discard again, sac it again (now we're up to BBBBBBBBBBB), attack with Akuba for 2, tap my other Swamp and use the Akuba's ability to drain for 12. You're at 6, go.
Yeeeeeeah.
Posted By:
ratchet1215
(8/27/2009 9:03:08 AM)
"Mana Source"? Really? xD
Posted By:
Snaxme
(4/5/2010 2:04:44 PM)
What?! A mana source that gives 4 black mana PER sac'd creature that's playable turn 1 and is a common??!? How is this not the best card ever??
Posted By:
Mike-C
(3/26/2012 3:52:48 AM)