This card is ridiculous. It should've costed 1 more mana. Or make it 2 more mana and make it an instant.
I mean, compared to putrefy... being a sorcery instead of an instant is a bad thing, but in most cases removal can be done on your turn (usually to kill a blocker or something). Unless the creature you want to nuke has haste, it's not really a HUGE deal.
Regenerating isn't a big problem either since most cards now lack it anyway.
However, this can kill enchantments/planeswalkers while putrefy can't, and if your opponent has tokens, or just more than one copy of something in play, this easily gives you huge card advantage.
Posted By:
mdakw576
(2/13/2010 4:21:12 AM)
wotc really needs to slow down magic a bit, Standard is already like extended
Posted By:
Aun
(5/25/2010 11:43:08 PM)
Relentless Rats
Posted By:
PoisonHats
(9/12/2010 8:32:57 AM)
Is this card extremely powerful? Obviously.
Is it over-powered, though? I don't think so.
Putrefy was an instant, this is a sorcery. Putrefy killed regenerators for good, this gives them the option to regenerate. This hits more kinds of things, and potentially more things (but at the same time, killing an opponent's permanent could mean killing off your own as well). It's a fair alternative to Putrefy (and definitely fair as a rare). The added power of the card in some ways is fairly tempered by its added drawbacks in others.
Posted By:
Cathaldus
(10/21/2009 10:53:21 PM)
Superbly destructive. I often like to see older cards get reprinted like Meddling Mage and Terminate, but I really love it when an older card is improved upon and tuned into something better; this one being an improved version of Putrefy.
Posted By:
SavageBrain89
(5/1/2009 8:38:32 PM)
in my opinion, best card in the set, or close.
great art, and it is just insane.
just too bad it's a sorcery...
I'm lucky I got one in a draft.
Posted By:
frog-in-a-jar
(6/18/2009 2:40:58 PM)
Hands down one of the best cards EVER.
Posted By:
TheDonMega
(5/10/2011 2:17:23 PM)
Indeed a incredibly powerful card, Considering the effect will most likely hardly ever be a drawback, this definitely beats Vindicate. Only wish they didn't make some cards so amazingly powerful and force me to spend a ton of money to get 4 of them.
Posted By:
BrutalJim
(7/17/2009 12:19:04 AM)
Token decks bane. Nuff said.
Posted By:
christos87
(4/29/2009 5:28:04 AM)
Finally something to compete with Vindicate.
Posted By:
2pcsofcandy
(5/29/2009 10:04:33 AM)