This card just makes the game more fun. It puts the focus more on decks with creatures, and having more cards simply gives you more plays, it makes more things happen and makes the game feel more interactive. Unless this becomes part of a ridiculous combo deck, It should not be banned.
Let us try it in legacy. It can't be as bad as Oath of Druids.
Posted By:
Subtle
(11/4/2009 6:48:40 PM)
If this is banned, so should fore of will and some of the other staples in the format- just makes everything too stagnant. This card can be countered by any deck splashing blue so easy, blue any disenchant works srsly, people just don't want to work around yet another powerhouse. But now that entomb is legal, why the hell is this not.
Posted By:
Omenchild
(3/5/2010 9:27:57 PM)
It IS part of some fairly easy combos, with Arcbound worker.
For example, Soul Foundry the worker, and have two Dross Scorpions and an Ur-Golem's Eye. And that's all in its block.
Posted By:
littlebeast
(1/8/2010 10:29:32 PM)
This deserved its ban at the time 100%, but still deserves it for the most part. Any weeny deck
, white or otherwise, benefits hugely from this.
Posted By:
ClockworkSwordfish
(1/10/2010 1:16:24 PM)
Great card. Deal some extra damage to either creatures or your opponent, and draw 2 if the creature dies. And that for a really cheap cost.
Posted By:
ChaoticDarkness
(1/20/2010 7:30:48 AM)
@axer
imagine this: you equip skullclamp to an artifact creature with 2 toughness, like an ornithopter, then sacrifice it for a shrapnel blast or any of the numerous cards that allow you to sacrifice an artifact. Imagine you also had a disciple of the vault out. For 2R an ornithopter, you draw two cards, and deal 6 damage to your opponent... Banhammer, so hard.
The above example doesn't even include half the other ridiculous stuff you can do with this in affinity (ravager) or a token deck.
Posted By:
GooberSnotpants
(2/2/2010 12:52:43 AM)
Any deck can use this. I use a playset in my goblin deck and I can turn a Siege-Gang commander into 10 cards.
AXER: Drawing cards is GOOD. Remember that.
Posted By:
CatsAreCthala
(2/4/2010 7:20:00 PM)
You pay a small price for more knowledge gained. This card has its reasons to be banned, it's considerable power and potential is understandable.
Posted By:
SorianSadaskan
(2/8/2010 3:07:15 AM)
In the Darksteel Pre-release my friend and I both a got good uncommons. I got Isochron Scepter and he got skullclamps. Seeing how I didn't get any good 2CC instants, guess who won--every game.
Posted By:
spectermonger
(3/12/2010 8:58:20 PM)
At first, I was skeptical about this card. It took seeing it in action literally one time for me to change my mind. It's sooooooo stupid. Imagine, say, a goblin deck eating their mans one by one with mana from a Prospector, then, after drawing, say, 10 cards off of this, casting Patriarch's Bidding and restoring their board to everything it was before, and possibly more.
Posted By:
izzet_guild_mage
(4/29/2010 12:26:25 PM)