Everyone is commenting on the badass flavour text, but no one seems to have mentioned the art...
It's an Eldrazi with its head exploding. Presumably because of Gideon. 5/5
Posted By:
Villainous1
(1/27/2013 1:41:14 AM)
Really awesome against small creatures or big creatures. Small creatures -> you hinder their draw two turns from now by giving them a bad topdeck. Big creatures? It can't attack for 2-3 more turns. Love it.
That said, I really liked Gezus82's little story thing, it brings the flavor text to life a bit; I wish it hadn't been downrated :(
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(4/30/2013 11:55:42 AM)
I would like it better if it put the creature on top of the library.
Posted By:
nope.avi
(5/1/2013 3:45:49 PM)
EHRMAGHERD!!!
I can't believe I've never seen this card before!
Must go find some now... It's perfect for Voltron EDH decks because the life doesn't really matter, and the tempo can easily mean game over. It's not quite, but pretty close to the power level of swords to plowshares. If this was instant, it would have seen play in basically all formats. At sorcery, it's still not bad, but is undervalued.
Posted By:
SAUS3
(6/24/2013 9:42:37 AM)
One of the most painful tools caw-blade had access to in standard, this only brings up bad memories for me. Very powerful card.
Posted By:
Hunted0Lesser
(11/4/2013 9:07:24 PM)
I like this card a lot in EDH. I finally decided to put it in over rapid hybridization in my U/W/G deck. I read it as delay creature for two turns (3 turns w/o haste), make opponent pay X amount of mana to reactivate it, remove all +1/+1 counters and equipment from it, destroy all auras on it, and that opponent skips a draw. And gains 3 life. Very versatile. It can even get indestructible creatures and death triggers. I generally prefer to do this to commanders rather than outright destroy them because this avoids the command zone and often, if the creature or commander is too big of a threat, there are a lot of ways to have the deck shuffled.
I want to see a game where a player exiles his own creature for the three life needed to win.
Posted By:
Hercynian
(11/8/2013 2:57:43 PM)
It's neat, and fairer than Swords to Plowshares or Path to Exile, but it's so much weaker and narrower in use that it would physically pain me to ever play it where those cards are legal.
Posted By:
Rog4Brd3
(1/4/2014 6:26:03 PM)
Wow I can't believe I haven't seen this before. It feels like its actually better than swords to plowshares in certain cases, where they don't want to re-draw the creature. In that case, its like taking their draw and having a swords to plowshares all rolled into one!
Posted By:
ColdTroller
(5/18/2014 9:12:21 PM)