Wait a second. this curves perfectly with Assemble the Legion. And the turn after that you can start some Dragon Appeasement.
Posted By:
Gabbalis
(3/13/2013 12:34:59 PM)
Has potential as a combo card, but Ashnod's Altar is almost strictly better, and a single break in your combo could mess up your entire deck for good.
Posted By:
AlphaNumerical
(8/4/2009 2:41:26 PM)
Why the poor rating? This card is never going to see anything approaching play, but think of the casual applications. Vexing Shusher is beckoning....
Posted By:
tHeMightyyAK123
(4/1/2012 5:03:58 PM)
Can be usefull in mostly-creature decks with few powerfull spells. Imagine it in zombies using it to cast Army of the Damned for 6 ... or 4
Posted By:
zipec
(8/25/2012 9:59:36 AM)
Nether Traitor, Golgari Germination, and Bridge from Below laugh at your so-called "drawback" and turn it into board advantage.
Posted By:
Rikiaz
(9/9/2012 11:32:59 AM)
Some of the first cards to came to mind were Living Death and Demonic Rising, altough I'm sure there are plenty of others
Posted By:
feedbacker
(1/7/2013 6:36:07 AM)
What's that? Counter my Banefire, my Demonfire, my Last Word, Obliterate, Slaughter Games, Volcanic Fallout, Wreak Havoc, Supreme Verdict, and my kicked Urza's Rage? Okay.
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(4/17/2013 7:22:06 PM)
God I hate this card. Mostly because I kept getting it in packs of Ravnica rather than dual lands or Loxodon Heirarch admittedly, but still.
And yet, one is drawn to the thing one hates... after many, many months, a friend and I finally actually managed to make a deck using this card where Ashnod's Altar wouldn't have been strictly better in its place. Not a good deck, but hey, that's not the point, is it?
Posted By:
stygimoloch
(12/1/2008 11:31:42 AM)
You'd have to pay 2UBBR to cast Nicol Bolas, not UBBR, unless you have two of these of out. There are easier ways to cast Nicol Bolas than playing two Blood Funnels and a token-making card to reduce his cost by 4.
Posted By:
Henrietta
(8/28/2011 4:12:02 PM)