i'm pretty sure that this card doesn't require you to 'sacrifice' creatures. 'destroy TARGET non-artifact creature. it can't be regenerated.' easy to get around.
Posted By:
gasimakos1
(8/2/2009 8:56:47 PM)
This won't kill White Knight, so it's not end all, be all. It still is a good card.
Posted By:
tavaritz
(5/9/2011 9:15:56 AM)
Awsome card.
Posted By:
True_Smog
(11/18/2009 11:13:08 AM)
The original Damnation. People who complain that card is out of flavour for black have never played with this beast. Your deck will likely have artifact creatures or a morphling that can hide from the effect. Your opponent(s) probably won't, and it doesn't even go away once it has killed everything!
If you want to get techy against it, play other enchant worlds - they send any previous enchant worlds to the graveyard.
See also Magus of the Abyss for a far less powerful modern version, playable only with lightning greaves.
Posted By:
Hambot
(11/13/2008 8:43:45 PM)
problem with that is that untargetablility doesnt save you from sacrificing creatures, choose is not the same as target... Abyss owns with cards like grave pact... or in enchantment decks
Posted By:
Kamah1
(4/30/2009 7:27:49 PM)
gasimakos1 - Back during Legends, Ice Age, etc The Abyss DID require the player to sacrifice a creature.
Didn't even require targeting. I had an artifact/Urzatron deck with this as the centerpiece.
Posted By:
reapersaurus
(10/25/2011 10:00:48 AM)
"All players bury one target non-artifact creature under their control"
Oh yeah? Or else what?!
Seriously, what's the actual penalty for not doing it? It doesn't say "Player loses 3 life" or "Player loses the game" or "Player must do a funky jig"
Posted By:
UrzasSlurpeeMachine
(8/16/2012 11:50:31 AM)
I rather like the flavor of it casting Dark Banishing repeatedly, sending creatures away into dark nothingness. This is quite a dangerous card, and with black's propensity for graveyard manipulation, this made an otherwise symmetrical loss into a potentially unfair one that could easily be manipulated in its controller's favor. I remember playing against this in a deck where Dragon Engine, Juggernaut and Mishra's Factory were the win conditions.
Posted By:
Equinox523
(2/22/2013 1:39:36 PM)
It would make my day if they made a DCI promo version or something and changed the flavor text to "When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you."
Posted By:
omni8000
(3/14/2013 6:23:04 AM)
@UrzasSlurpeeMachine:
It's very simple, there is no penalty. However, the effect is not optional, so if you have a valid creature, you must choose it. So you could say that the penalty is to not have any non-artifact creatures without shroud or protection from black or something similar.
Posted By:
mtkaim
(8/14/2013 11:22:18 PM)