if this card wasnt so highly costed there's a really fun combo that can compeletly mill out your oponents library. You have a kiki-jiki out on the battlefield, you then flash out pestermite, have kiki-jiki make a copy of pestermite, the copy untaps kiki-jiki and you can continue this infinite loop of kiki-jiki making pestermites till you have enough pestermites to tap down and get rid of their library.
Posted By:
ArturoB616
(10/25/2009 8:28:46 PM)
the card has an interesting effect - but with a mana cost of 6? no, thanks...
you can't really effectively build a deck around that.
Posted By:
Mode
(8/8/2009 7:49:26 AM)
Drowner of Secrets requires Merfolk and is a creature, so they're not completely comparable. This should've been cheaper though. Maybe a {2}{U}{U} enchantment?
Posted By:
Rainyday2012
(8/26/2009 6:06:14 PM)
The artwork on this card makes no sense in relation to the card's effect. Why is the woman playing the koto slipping into dementia and bleeding instead of the swans?
Posted By:
eskla
(3/30/2010 9:46:23 PM)
It's hard to sing this card's praises when I know about Altar of Dementia. The Altar is simply more efficient, and considering that it costs 4 less mana makes it pretty much strictly better. It requires sacrifice of creatures, but you can easily make that a good thing. If you're making lots of tokens, the most common form in black (a color found in nearly all mill decks) is 2/2 zombies, which means twice as much milling as the Koto, not to mention that you can attack with the Zombies and then sacrifice them later. And if you're playing with a mill deck, you're running a lot of blue, so you can take control of your opponents' creatures. Their Blightsteel Colossus has just swung at them, milled them for eleven cards, and is somewhere in their library. That's efficient problem-solving right there.
The only advantage that the Koto has is that it works well with untapping shenanigans.
Posted By:
Japicx
(2/15/2011 8:38:04 PM)
Drowner of Secrets. half the price.
Posted By:
Forgeling
(8/21/2009 5:48:40 PM)
Too expensive. At a mana cost of one it would still be borderline playable because with creatures out it's still similar to attacking with 53 times.
Posted By:
CatsAreCthala
(12/5/2009 9:26:09 PM)
First there is blood in the koto elska, but anyway who says art should always reflect the essence of the card in twsted ways? why can't there be these fragile paint rebecca does?
Posted By:
Teotanek
(6/3/2010 8:34:46 PM)
Tokens and milling are to perfectly fine win conditions. When they intersect, however, things go horribly wrong. Suddenly you can't chump block or just win via overrun as you are either tapping or saccing your tokens to some mill engine. And tapping creatures to mill is simply far less efficient than other proper mill cards. Not to mention it reduces how many chump blockers you have.
Posted By:
allmighty_abacus
(10/4/2010 10:08:40 AM)
soooo... you wanna make a token/mill deck?.... Think your broken mycoloth will like, let's say overrun much better than this. Milling and token id not a great mix imo, do any other cards than this support token milling? In mill, keening stone is much better than this.
Posted By:
Sironos
(2/14/2011 3:36:11 PM)