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Lure

Multiverse ID: 135226

Lure

Comments (27)

Guest2146443305
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (5 votes)
This card + Sylvan Basilisk = screw up your opponents' face
Jenss
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Why isn't this card rated any higher?? Combine with deathtouch/regeneration, and pulverize anything with summoning sickness ! ;D

Or just use it on a lousy 1/1 creature, clearing the way for some big, nasty beasts! We're talking green afterall!!
LesserImmortal
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (3 votes)
Many a game has been won or lost on the strength of this card, preventing chump blocking and allowing your big monsters right on through.
mtmills
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0) (3 votes)
Tangle asp is a better option, it's much cheaper.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
although Tangle asp kills at the end of combat, while sylvan basilisk survives to tell his grandchildren.
Sironos
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Hate this kind of effect, too overpowered, especially in green. Player 1:"I attack with 5 7/7's and a 1/1"
Player 2: "Okay I block the first 7/7 with my..."
Player 1: "no, all your creatures have to block the 1/1"
Player 2: "... *gunshot*"
icelogic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
i have a Lure that looks different from this picture. its like a weird looking apple, and doesnt have a edition symbol. the illustrator is Anson Maddocks. how is it different from this one?
Test-Subject_217601
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This+Kaldra=Board Sweep
murdershot21
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@icelogic Might be the Alpha version.
The_Somnambulist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I would put this on the upcoming Scars of Mirrodin green creature "Engulfing Slagwurm". It destroys creatures whenever it blocks or becomes blocked, and it's a 7/7 so it's likely to last longer than the weaker counterparts Sylvan Basilisk and Tangle Asp.
SuicidalTendancies
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is one of the finishers in this stupid tribal spider deck i have.

Throw venoms on a couple weak power ones so they just look like good blockers. Then lure one and BAM SPIDERS
Faildini
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great card, one of the most annoying effects green can have. On the other hand, Tempting Licid...
Why not do it more than once? lololololololol
Ladwig
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)

The effect of Lure needs a name cuz Venom got effect name of deathtouch
jacktheinvisible
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why, is that a darksteel myr? And you just put Pariah on it? What, Im not going to...oh.
land_comment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Rampage v. a token deck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
__Silence__
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
IMO tempting licid is better (it's even cheaper and movable ... )
humor_love
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@Ladwig:

The Enchant Creature equivalent of Deathtouch would be Venomous Fangs, not Venom. The ideas are similar, but not the same.

Lure's a pretty handy card. I'd have to give it a 3.5 of 5 rating. In the right conditions, of course, it seems as though the card deserves a much higher rating. The card just requires those proper settings to have already been set up before it's useful. With, say, one or two creatures in play, it's a little difficult for Lure to be game-winning or something.

...also, Gorilla Berserkers has a pseudo-Lure built into it. Lure holds a more significant place enchanting a Craw Giant. :D
Stray_Dog
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Green removal with the right creatures in play.
Nice, casual-level synergy with Greater Basilisk from M11, just in case you were wondering what cheap tricks you could do with a deathtouching fatty.

Between M11 and the upcoming M12, green actually has a fun suite of control options at its disposal.
Ibn_Shisha
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0) (1 vote)
When they brought this back in 10th, I wish they had gone with either the original art or the Masques art.
sl33tbl1nd
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Shove it on a regenerator, give it Venom and this. That's about the best you can do with it, really.
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Good, classic card with terrible artwork.
Technetium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Although the card is classically referenced in terms of how it combos with Thicket Basilisk (or to a lesser extent, Craw Giant), it really can be quite effective on it's own, allowing you to force your opponent's creatures to let all the big ones by to gang-block the 1/1 llanowar elf. Potentially a game-finisher.
Quadsimotto
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
ahhh i used to throw this on abu ja'far and wipe out a nicely built army in large group games. I really do miss this game. Guess i am going to have to re orient myself with it.