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the original Necro variant, although this version is far more painful....

The non-broken Necro. Compair with the even-more-broken-than-Necro Necro.

Is there a card that has something along the lines of sacraficing a creature to draw a card? I didn't think there was, but I'm not sure. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it!

EvilCleavage: Try Skullclamp with Eldrazi spawn--attach it, then sac them in response to stick it onto the next...

EvilCleavage: I think the card that you want is Carnage Altar. Anyway, I'm testing this card in my Ghost Council EDH deck; seems pretty good to me.

@Yesnomu: What you're suggesting doesn't work. If you say "I'm attaching this to an Eldrazi Spawn, sac it in response", you get one mana in your mana pool and the equip ability fizzles, because there's nothing to attach it to any more. If you say "I'm waiting until its attached, then I'll sacrifice the Eldrazi Spawn", you'll get the two cards you're after, but it will already be dead the next time you would have a chance to activate a mana ability. In Magic, its a good idea to remember the rule of thumb "I cannot sacrifice one creature for two different effects". Eldrazi Spawn are good fodder for sacrificing, you just can't use their mana abilities AND sacrifice them to something else. (That said, if you had a broodwarden or some kind of toughness boosting effect, your plan would work very nicely)

Combos well with Words of Worship.

I personally think they should go back to the original wording. I understand the concept of pay for cards, but I see no reason this shouldn't work with something like Platinum Angel or Platinum Emperion to stack your hand.

...Is he EATING his gold?

Actually, Necropotence comes AFTER this card, so this isn't the fixed Necro. Necro is the broken Greed...

I think that this card is quite funny and balanced... Seen as a black Treasure Trove, this is much more preferable!

4/5

yummy

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind"
- Gordon Gekko, Wall Street

THESE ARE MY CRACKERS! NONE FOR YOU, POLLY

chompchompmoneymunch

I could find a use for this I imagine. takes a bit of mana, and is probably more of a control card, but those aren't bad things.

It's also actual card draw, which helps in comparison to necro on occasion.

+ and 2 life: Draw a card.
+ and 4 life: Draw two cards.
+ and 6 life: Draw three cards.
+ and 8 life: Draw four cards.
+ and 10 life: Draw five cards.
+ and 12 life: Draw six cards.
+ and 14 life: Draw seven cards.

How many cards do you have to plan do draw with this thing to justify playing it? Granted, the activation mana is negligible, since you can spend it bit by bit at the end of your opponent's turn.

One or two is obviously terrible.
Three is strictly worse than Ambition's Cost.
Four is usually worse than Infernal Contract.
Five is arguably worse than Promise of Power.
At six or more, you're probably better off with Necrologia.

Great art and useful in a bind.

@HuntingDrake

That's not how the game works. What makes Greed good is that it is versatile. If a card can do multiple things, it doesn't matter if each thing it can do is worse than another card. Also, I don't get why so, SO many people just combine converted mana cost with activation costs. You pay 4 for Greed on one turn, then you can use the ability on another turn. With all the other cards you noted you have to spend all the mana immediately. Exalted Angel would not have been such a widely used card if it was simply a "seven-drop."