@whyt His getting counters ability activates as an instant, so you can save all your mana until your opponents' end step and then put as many counters on him as you can afford if you want to.
Posted By:
doombladez
(3/22/2012 11:06:11 PM)
Awww.... Isn't that cute!?
Posted By:
TheZombifier
(11/11/2012 9:42:09 PM)
Due to greed/inability to draft properly, this ended up being my first pick during Draft (2-0, 2-1, 1-2, for 4th place out of 9 drafters), during which I drafted a control heavy deck (also had 3 copies of Hysterical Blindness and Silent Departure). The only time I managed to let it go off was during the third round, second game, which I won. When sideboarding, my opponent half-jokingly suggested, "Get rid of it, because it sucks."
Posted By:
Toquinha1977
(1/5/2012 7:10:10 AM)
@JimT70
read "Ludevic’s Test Subject" in the rules text as "this permanent." When it transforms, its name changes, but it is the same permanent as it was before. You activate the ability enough times for it to transform, and then five more times. The fifth counter will be placed on the Test Subject, it will resolve and transform, and then the remaining five copies of the ability will resolve, each placing a counter on the Abomination. The "if there are five or more counters" trigger checks for five or more counters, not whether or not it was transformed, so the trigger fires again regardless of its transformed state. Elbrus, the Binding Blade can also transform back in a weird circumstance.
Posted By:
adrian.malacoda
(4/8/2012 11:07:37 PM)
Everyone finally got an instant speed level up card, what's the problem?
Posted By:
MagnaLynx21
(12/19/2011 5:35:53 AM)
Aww man, this was a lot of fun in the Innstrad pre-release, not that I had the card, but someone else did, he was so happy to transform it, only to have me use a red spell to take it and kill him with it next turn.
Posted By:
Sonicjosh
(1/27/2012 11:53:53 PM)
Just made a proliferating blue deck with some phantasmal bear/invisible stalker combining with curse of stalked prey as an alternate win condition of this. Hopefully it works as I'm imagining it to. May need to toss in some myrs to get that red mana out more easily.
Posted By:
morugatu
(10/5/2011 1:57:03 AM)
Giving him Hexproof (I'm not sure if it'll still work with Shroud) seems like a nice idea.
Posted By:
NecroticNobody
(10/1/2011 6:31:16 PM)
Just tragic slipped this guy:
Posted By:
firearasi
(2/28/2012 9:03:03 PM)
As for transforming back... I'm thinking that if the trigger is on the stack and you continue to add counters to it until it triggers AGAIN that it'll transform to Ludevic's Abomination and then back to Ludevic's Test Subject due to the second trigger. I'm not sure I agree, although the trigger does not specify WHAT to transform... I would think that is implied as 'it' can only refer to 'Ludevic's Test Subject' in the first sentence.
Posted By:
Guest1707942129
(10/5/2011 8:25:38 AM)