swamp, dark ritual, duress, hymn to tourach.
Posted By:
gasimakos1
(5/22/2011 10:41:21 PM)
Ok, about the 'flavor debate' here.....
Max_Glycine's conclusion is right, but his reasoning is wrong:
Conclusion- Dark Ritual isn't black
Reasoning:
(Max's): Rituals are red because wasting CA for dmg is Red. Also, this card wasn't made for flavor it was made for a deck archetype 'suicide black'.
Debunks: 'Suicide' Black IS a flavorful deck :p And this was printed in Alpha, before any archetypes were established. And Evil Rituals are a mainstay of Fantasy. Being Powerful is Black Flavor (it's kind of a stupid flavor to design cards around, but there it is), and Mana is Power.
MY Reasoning for why this isn't Black: As printed, and thinking about the Color Wheel according to Alpha, this looks like a misprinted Green card to me. It makes energy. ok. What am I paying? Why is this all upside?
The only thing Dark Ritual needs to be truly perfected in my book is some kind of rider: 'discard a card', or 'lose 1 life', or 'sacrifice a creature', or something of that sort. Black is s... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(3/2/2012 10:54:22 AM)
They need to reprint this in M12
Posted By:
pzfreez7
(2/6/2011 11:45:33 AM)
Yeah, no, Dark Ritual is NOT in flavor. I wholeheartedly agree with Max_Glycine, and you suicide black players shouldn't vote his honest tidbit of truth down so low.
For M13, they need a black boon for a single (B) that says "Choose one- target player loses 3 life or target creature gets -0/-3 until end of turn" and they need a red boon for a single (R) that says "Add (R)(R)(R) to your mana pool". Of course, if they think that red ritual is too powerful, they should continue printing Pyretic Ritual.
EDIT: To whomever voted my comment at .5 stars, to hell with your opinion. Look up Infernal Plunge from the Innistrad spoilers. I will NOT be surprised if they start doing that black bolt that I described.
Posted By:
MacBizzle
(2/10/2012 4:23:58 AM)
lighting bolt is back, mana leak is back. BRING THIS BACK
Posted By:
Kyzar
(4/4/2011 6:10:42 PM)
@MtFrostM FINALLY someone who understands the flavour of cards in magic, so many people who are just starting magic look at cards like prodigal sorcerer and tell me it makes no sense in blue, damage is a red ability etc and im like its a wizard how does it not make sense?
Posted By:
Ava_Adore
(5/5/2011 4:08:57 PM)
Dark Ritual is one of my favorite cards. Black can't do to much to artifacts or really anything to enchantments so I think Dark Ritual should be reprinted in M12 but I doubt that will happen. I like this Dark Ritual artwork the best
Posted By:
andro1d
(5/1/2011 10:55:47 PM)
I'm not normally one to hate on cards. Everything has it's place, in some deck (even if it's only in limited- I'm looking at you, Armored Cancrix). But I hate Dark Ritual. Three Dark Rits in your opening hand to accelerate something expensive out isn't clever, it's just cheap. 0.5 stars for this piece of luh-suh.
And to those trying to say it's in flavor- it's not. Remember, your cards in hand are your knowledge, and red is the color that will waste knowledge to do more damage. That's why, flavor-wise and mechanically, Rituals are in red. The reason this was printed in black wasn't flavorful, it was because of the deck archetypes that involved black at the time, namely "suicide black".
Posted By:
Max_Glycine
(5/24/2011 9:02:02 PM)
Fast mana is bad, mmk. And you shouldn't use it, mmk.
Posted By:
pedrodyl
(12/22/2012 4:10:53 PM)
@MtFrostM: I stand corrected; your post was very insightful and made huge sense. Of course they would relate flavor to nature - they didn't have other cards as references. Anyway, thanks for your reply :)
I'm leaving the old post just for reference if anyone wants to read it. (though it's probably mostly just rubbish).
@Kryptnyt: I know I'm gonna cause a lot of Hatred, but flavorfully, Dark Ritual doesn't really make sense. I say this because black has always been about gaining power at a cost, yet Dark Ritual doesn't do anything bad in exchange for massive power. Dark Ritual is more of a red card, because red decks tend to be very powerful with the disadvantage of running out of steam quickly.
If Dark Ritual was to be in sync with its color, it should have some sort of disadvantage that involved loss of life (actually, Channel's flavor is pretty black). A life loss of 3 would be fair, taking into consideration cards like Demon of ... (see all)
Posted By:
GrimjawxRULES
(8/28/2011 9:31:47 AM)