well a consume spirit for 4 damage cost 6(black mana only except one) for a sorcery, this one cost 7 for an instant ... ho but wait, I can play it for free anytime ... if used with something like howling mines and cie!
A BIG 4.74/5
Volcre
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Is this even that good? Maybe I'm a noob but losing 3 cards to kill one creature or swing for 8 life points doesn't seem all that great to me...
Gilgamesh3000
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
This card rocks! Use it with necropotence or any card advantage.
Elysiume
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(5 votes)
@Volcre: It's a bit overcosted as it is, but having alternate ways to do things makes a card more versatile, and therefore better. It can also be used with things that have Madness costs, if one so desires.
DarthKithkin
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I dont think madness would work since youre removing the cards from the game.
Omenchild
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
haha no not with madness. nah this isnt a bargain, come on lightning helix is one less and costs 2! srsly drain life is better haha. i can only see this if you use it on the back of a sign in blood and instead of discarding you just pitch
Morgrath
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Is that Lovisa Coldeyes? It looks like her, and I'm almost certain that that's her axe.
I just can't justify paying two more for an instant speed Soul Feast. The alt cost makes it playable, but I feel like it should have it for more at the cost of seven.
If nothing else, it's strictly better than Vampiric Feast.
Penguin_Master
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In spite of it's alternate casting cost (which is it's only saving grace, but a good save nonetheless) it is stunningly mediocre. It's applications are limited at best when the loss of card advantage doesn't hurt you terribly.
Maybe a combo with pull from eternity so that you don't lose ALL the cards you exile with it's alternate cast.
luca_barelli
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wouldn't run this without Phyrexian Arena or another source of card draw. Probably better than Soul Feast though.
DacenOctavio
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
It's a great way to finish your opponent out of nowhere, and the element of surprise is often what counts. If my opponent is coming at me with a specter, Shimian or otherwise, I wouldn't mind spending cards I would lose anyway to get rid of it and put me up some life, too. Plus, a lot of you guys are missing that this is an instant. An instant. And it only has {B}{B} in the mana cost, so hardcasting it isn't that bad. I've ended quite a few games with this little stiletto.
Paladin85
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Fireblast makes a comeback in black! With a slightly higher CMC and a small benefit
However Fireblast is much easier to cast using the alternative (saccing two mountains instead of pitching two cards from your hand). Still this is a strong finisher in the right deck esp if you have the card draws or tutors for more black cards
4/5
Crayzar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Morgrath @TasPap
That does look very similar to Lovisa Coldeyes' axe, but unless she's prone to growing beards, I don't think that's her in this picture. Also, the nose is wrong.
zenitramleirdag
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this card is both good and bad depending on how or when its played..
but i think its most effective when used as a secret sideboard tech against ANT..
Kirbster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's not great on its own, no, but this thing gets along swimmingly with Necropotence. Turn life into cards, turn cards into a dead creature and more life, turn that life into even more cards... it combines Necro's love for both Drain Life and Contagion into one card.
Technetium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This would have made the old Yawgmoth's Bargain decks even better. If you had no Dark Rituals in hand, Soul Feast required discarding 5 cards to Skirge Familiar to cast (with 1 Dark Ritual, it still required discarding 3 cards for a net loss of 4 cards), while this requires only 2 cards.
Use two of these and you'll have enough life for another 7 cards. IF running simian spirit guide, lotus petals, and other such mana creation effects you could probably also get a hastey 7 from the Brand
Mix in Bump in the Night and chancellor of the dross and you could easily see your opponent dead t1 or t2 from life-loss. Mix in with rituals and Tendrils of agony to have a mixed win con allowing you to storm off of your other drain spells.
Chancellor and Griselbrand are both formidable life-gaining beaters too.
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A BIG 4.74/5
Surprise finisher when tapped out is a good card.
I just can't justify paying two more for an instant speed Soul Feast.
The alt cost makes it playable, but I feel like it should have it for more at the cost of seven.
If nothing else, it's strictly better than Vampiric Feast.
Maybe a combo with pull from eternity so that you don't lose ALL the cards you exile with it's alternate cast.
However Fireblast is much easier to cast using the alternative (saccing two mountains instead of pitching two cards from your hand). Still this is a strong finisher in the right deck esp if you have the card draws or tutors for more black cards
4/5
That does look very similar to Lovisa Coldeyes' axe, but unless she's prone to growing beards, I don't think that's her in this picture. Also, the nose is wrong.
but i think its most effective when used as a secret sideboard tech against ANT..
Use two of these and you'll have enough life for another 7 cards. IF running simian spirit guide, lotus petals, and other such mana creation effects you could probably also get a hastey 7 from the Brand
Mix in Bump in the Night and chancellor of the dross and you could easily see your opponent dead t1 or t2 from life-loss. Mix in with rituals and Tendrils of agony to have a mixed win con allowing you to storm off of your other drain spells.
Chancellor and Griselbrand are both formidable life-gaining beaters too.