This is a seriously a *** card.
He's a Legend? Add the fact that he caries a beyond hideous drawback and become a freaking lightning rod?
How about Plague Sliver, whose ability happens more often to be positive than negative?
Posted By:
AlphaNumerical
(8/31/2009 5:27:15 PM)
uh... why does he also kill other oni? Shouldn't it be "non-ogre, non-demon creatures"?
Posted By:
Mata-nui3
(2/11/2011 4:04:06 PM)
Play him with an Ogre decks. He's usually my grunt. make opponents waste destroy spells on him.
Posted By:
jdvue
(11/19/2009 1:59:16 AM)
Now that's a side effect!
Posted By:
Originalsin
(1/25/2010 9:52:18 PM)
I suppose all you have to do to make this card work is to use only ogre type creatures and changeling type creatures (which are all creature types).
Posted By:
Comradebananahead
(2/15/2010 2:28:04 AM)
Juzam Djinn makes this card look fantastic.
unless you like to play other creatures
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(7/26/2010 11:01:33 PM)
I play a casual demon/ogre deck with him, utilizing some of the newer ogres, like Viscera Dragger and Ogre Sentry, and honestly, he's great. In a deck like that, he's basically a better Juzam Djinn.
Of course, in general, he's a pretty crappy rare, but I actually like him a lot.
Posted By:
Anubisisking
(4/16/2011 7:21:19 PM)
5/5 for the simple thrill of playing a cheap, mean lightning rod FTW. Much more versatile too, than say Grinning Demon.
Posted By:
Tyrannopope
(5/1/2011 9:37:24 PM)
I kinda wish he felt more epic. Rakdos is a demon with a huge drawback and huge reward while feeling powerful, epic, flavorful, and being generally avoided by most decks. This guy is missing that nice *HOLY CRAP* feeling.
They should've really upped the ante with something; say.. the Phage ability tacked onto a 5/3 body. Then it just walks up and owns the game or it owns you! To me that's good design because it adds a lot of tension. A 5/5 at a good cost adds a tiny bit of tension, but it's lacking that feeling that makes many Demons so loveable; yet most of the Kamigawa demons unlovable. Where's the epic?
I collect and play demons in so so many decks because of that feeling, the awesome art, etc, but this guy misses all of those marks.. and yet I still have to go buy a couple and stick them somewhere..
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(3/1/2013 12:42:13 PM)
Either run him with some kind of Donate combo, or use him as one of your only creatures. 5/5 for 4 mana is not bad.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(8/26/2013 8:36:10 PM)