Interesting card. Sadly, very narrow too.
First, it's a 1/1 for four mana, which is really bad. Any harmful spell of any sort will kill it, and by itself, it will never do any damage of any sort.
Second, you can never make sure that it works. Maybe your opponent plays a mill deck, without creatures? Or he plays a deck with creatures that are unblockable or have another sort of evasion? Or he plays a discard deck, so you won't have any creatures for Aetherplasm to work with. Or you just have bad luck and don't draw any meaningful creatures.
It could have been 1/4 or 1/5 as well. Then it could at least block small stuff, if you have nothing useful on your hand.
Posted By:
majinara
(3/10/2013 12:50:30 AM)
@Arachnos: Oh what you gonna do little guy, you gonna tickle me with your tentacles OH GOD THAT ISN'T TICKLING
Posted By:
LordRandomness
(4/3/2013 7:59:31 PM)
Just don't drop a Phage the Untouchable into play using this ability.
Posted By:
tcollins
(4/15/2013 3:05:34 PM)
LOLdrazi'd you Bro :)
Posted By:
Earthdawn
(6/3/2013 6:59:41 AM)
2UU: put emrakul from your hand onto the battlefield.
Posted By:
O0oze
(6/20/2013 1:28:53 AM)
Being able to use this guy, ALONE for an infinite combo with any of 600 things ruins it for me. Ponder, Lightning Greaves, Sage's Row Denezin, Courtly Provocature, this, win. You could fiddle with speeding things up to win sooner than turn 5, but the deck is already "solved" so why bother?
Posted By:
Deaderpool
(7/11/2013 10:44:21 PM)
Procs, not price
Posted By:
GunRecon
(11/14/2013 6:16:51 PM)
Deaderpool, NorseDT, presumably others: No. A creature can only "block" during the turn-based action at beginning of the declare blockers step. This would have been incredibly broken otherwise, as you've pointed out.
Posted By:
manaderp
(1/7/2014 6:17:51 PM)