normally, cards like that have a drawback. this "drawback" is rather an advantage instead.^^ and it's even using hybrid mana...
Judgement-Day
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(7 votes)
I run this in a mannequin deck (T2 build but casual play) and when I can get it out by turn four a lot of people just lose interest in the game. Tons of fun to play with.
fyreowl
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Def one of my favorites, my friends get mad whenever he comes out.
macic666
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Had this monstrous destroyer, ruined all my friends, rated 4...
Treima
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Awesome in casual. I have had players hiss with rage at this card! Too expensive for consideration in tournament play, but just an awesome sight to behold, especially if you've been building up to seeing this thing hit the board.
Aedrict
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Is it possible to use Coffin Queen and 'reanimate' Doomgape and Sacrifice it on the next upkeep to gain 10 lives and do this over and over again?
Hi-Hat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(5 votes)
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Xpodmaniac
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I just get shivers down my spine when I look at this card! Just think of the power!
Also, I have a thought. The "gain life equal to its toughness" aspect of the effect, does that toughness include +1/+1 tokens and the like? Because I have a deck where if I sacrifice this thing with its power, I could maybe get 12 life that way.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(9 votes)
DoomGape This Cat Eats Neighborhoods. Go Shroom Dino!
HappyDude69
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Amazing card, I'm using it in a chainer deck right now and it works really well to off set the life paying I need to do.
BrutalJim
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Pretty sick card, unfortunately even though I play Green/ Black this card doesn't really fit the theme of my deck, so I don't use the 2 I have. Regardless an amazing card in the right deck. 4.5/5.
Vinifera7
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
@Xpodmaniac +1/+1 counters modify toughness, so yes, they also count.
About the guy asking if you can use coffin queen with this guy to gain 10 life each turn: nope. Before this guys ability triggers at the upkeep, you have to choose if you want to untap the queen or not. If you untap it, the doomgape gets removed. And if you keep it tapped, you need to wait another turn to have the queen untapped and ready. So you could sac it once every two turns. But then I'd rather do something better with the queen. :)
themicronaut
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
The little Timmy in me gets really excited to see a big green creature with trample, keep them coming!
wasp228
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I got this out with Gift of Deity once and just devastated my friends sapproling deck.
Silferhjelm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I think that this card is awesome! Especially with quilspikes and trows!
Mr.Fungus
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
I sacked a 300/300 (Mycoloth) for it and gained 300 life then brought the Mycoloth back and made him bigger.
Silverware
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Master of Etherium has become known by most of the community on the Gatherer simply because of how he uses caps for the start of every word. With all the comments directed at him I wonder why he hasn't stoped yet.
4wallz
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Not a force in tournament play but still a lot of fun in causal. He's not really got a drawback. Even if you sac him you get 10 life. So it's pretty cool.
BalonyPony
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(7 votes)
MasterOfEtherium Is Right On. My Own Neighborhood Was Swallowed By This Card, And Now Its Very Dark. Speaking Of Darkness, This Combos Well With Dark Ritual And Is Almost As Good As Progenitus.
12/12 Doomgape +3 Life at every beginning of your upkeep The opponent has to sacrifice a creature whenever you sacrifice the 3/3 green worm
Cons: -High cost -Greakwood Liege may be easily killed/destroyed and your combo is broken
ClockworkSwordfish
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card is unfair! It's drawback isn't a negative at all, and it's way cheaper than it should be.
Qazior
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
About the Coffin Queen, it can be used every turn with this to gain 10 life (unless someone kills either).
The queen's ability says: "When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature." If you untap queen, the ability triggers. However, this is from MtG community Main rules FAQ: Q: What happens when a triggered ability triggers during the Untap Step? A: When a triggered ability triggers, it waits until the next time a player would receive priority to go on the stack. In this case, that means that the triggered ability wouldn't go on the stack until the upkeep step.
So the ability waits until upkeep and because you control both abilities (queen's and doomgape's) you can order them any way to stack. First queen's then gape's, gape's resolves first; you sac it, queen's resolves; doomgape is already gone so you don't have to exile it.
But to the card itself: 10/10 trample for 7 mana ain't bad and it's eating doesn't usually matter that much because it gives you life. 4.5/5
Gaussgoat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome creature... Total beast with trample who gains life and isn't too expensive. Yowza.
With Black/Green, it is entirely possible that this behemoth will hit the table as early as turn 4, and there are plenty of little guys to feast upon while he goes to work. The usual mana accelerators will help you... llanowar elves, dark ritual, Sacrifice, etc.
I had a delightful vision of yet another use for Sanguine Bond looking at this guy. BWahahah.
I'm wearing out his name, but this is yet another incredible card that works with Creakwood Liege. I mean, you're boosting Doomgape to a 12/12 AND providing a 3 point lifegain every turn. Yhatzee.
4.5/5
LeoKula
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome! Rite of Consumption with this card is just amazing... this with automatic tokens is just insane, I love this card for all its possibilities! 5/5
Kurraga
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
7 mana 10/10 that eats my creatues? Awesome, comebo with Junkyo Bell bell for extra life (cuz the creature's gonna die anyway, and with a token deck that's 6-7 life a turn for 1 creature.
Pros: Hybryd Trample Gain Life 10/10 Awesome Art Awesome Flavor Awesome Flavor Text Can't Be Doombladed (even if youre playing mono green) Awesome name Can Eat itself for 10 Life
One of the funnest cards I own 5/5
RikerBlake
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(9 votes)
"It eats and eats until the juiciest morsel it can find is itself." Then it eats itself for 10 life :D
Oragada
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(23 votes)
My first thought when i saw this card: "...PacMan?..."
billpasdmf
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@fanofmagic This card was made before they had the Mythic Rare category.
All in all this thing is ridiculous. I got it out of a booster box that I paid 60 bucks for.(SCORE!) I don't yet know where I want to put it, but it's gonna help wherever it goes.
this can be dropped turn 4 for 11 damage as part of an inblock combo
also, if you cast Double Cleave on it then its a turn 34win
(assuming you played something like Smokebraider on turn 2)
if you went with a green red build,
Turn 1: forest + bird of paradise Turn 2: mountain + Incandescent Soulstoke Turn 3: land + put doomgape into play via soulstoke then double cleave for 22 trample damage
Having problems with enough creatures to eat? Mitotic Slime and one or two ress spells should fix that. Bon appetite!
TheSwarm
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(12 votes)
Thats disgustingly fantastic.. WORST, WOOOOOOORSSSSTTTTTT case scenario, you gain 10 life. Thats the worst case scenario. Best case scenario, Your hitting with a ten ten trample as early as like turn 5, 6 or 7 in some decks for a very long time as you continually gain life. UGH. shouldnt be hybrid mana it should be straight multicolored. OH! it works with freaking gravepact. i want this card....
The monogreen timmy in me gives it a 10.5/5 The blue/white combo player that gets eaten alive by aggro starts drinking and gives it .5/5. so its a 5/5.
Ameisenmeister
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(13 votes)
@Silverware Master of Aetherium is just like Paris Hilton. He pretends to be stupid and that's why he is famous in the Gatherer community. If he was like everybody else he would not get the recognition he needs.
First reaction: too few drawbacks to this creature for what you get. So what if you need to sacrifice a creature each turn? Unless it gets destroyed (which is harder than normal due to its high toughness and blackness) it will probably win the game for you in a turn or two, and if it does get destroyed you can sac it for ten life. Gaining life for the sacrifice is like a slap in the face for the player who doesn't use this card. I'm not saying the card is too good, because I honestly don't know, but its percieved power seems to be too much, at least for me. Too 'safe' really is what I would say.
Cards like this annoy me, because there is no reason NOT to play them. Think about it: if you were a casual deck-builder playing a green/black deck, why wouldn't you play this card? I think that it is important for cards not to be auto-include because if every card were like that then it would be almost impossible to choose what cards to put into a deck. Sure, sure, you could say that "card X deals with Doomgape easy" but the average casual player isn't going to know that, and especially not just from looking at the card. You could say that the sac effect would deter casual players, but that effect also comes with life gain, which casual players love.
Anyway I am sure there is a good rebuttal to what I am saying, and I would like to know what that is so I can better assess this card's fun value. At the moment it just irritates me (maybe that is the point of it? :P)
I think Xathrid Demon does it better. Does that card please Timmy? Doomgape's 10/10 looks alot bigger than 7/7 though.
Demonic_Math_Tutor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I dont see how this monster would physically be able to eat itself. Works well with Creakwood Liege. Get a 12/12, gain three life each turn and Doomgape still has trample. This is why i actually bought a few sealed decks from morningtide
Feralsymphony
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Ah, Doomgape, my old friend, how many creatures have you sacrificed? How many games have you won?
divine_exodus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
He reminds me of King Dok from the Bone series. I don't know why.
Was it just me, or were the B/G creatures in LorSha exceptionally powerful compared to the others?
Not talking combo potential or what have you,
Just in sheer amounts of power.
Doomgape here, Deity of Scars, their Woodlurker Mimic had a powerful boost, and Quillspike got out of control fast.
I don't know, maybe it's just me.
But I'm a B/G player anyway, so I loved it.
supershawn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
so I want to play with this and Xathrid demon.... at the same time....
trust me I can do two creatures per turn...
and gravepact just makes it so much sweeter.
TPmanW
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
7 mana for a 10/10 with upside/downside? Daaaaaaamn
Combolulz
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
When this card RUSHES towards your opponent...the look on their face twists as they see the name of the card slowly change from "Doomgape" To "DoomRape"
Mata_Hari
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(8 votes)
MY ASS HAS FINALLY DECIDED TO EAT MY HAND! IT HUNGERS!!!! FOR MORE
ScissorsLizard
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@Ameisenmeister: MasterOfEtherium isn't just famous because he types in all caps. It definitely helps that none of his posts are ever clever or insightful.
I would like more cards with "Doom" in the title, please. I would consider it a personal favor if any of those cards are also ridiculously oversized underprotected the-whole-table-laughs-when-it-hits-play mega-monsters with highly evocative art and enjoyable flavor text, but, really, that's much too much to ask, and to be honest I'm plenty satisfied with fun mediocre-even-in-casual-play junk like Doom Cannon. (And I think it'll be d*mn hard to top the name Doomgape.)
However, I have a small quibble. Next time you all decide to charge ahead and be bold and print a card this cool, could you please give it the Legendary supertype, so that I can play it as my commander in EDH?
Many thanks! 5+/5.
P.S. It's really not too late to bring back doom counters. Just saying.
P.P.S. Doomgape + Enduring Renewal may not be the most efficient combo in Magic, but it's one of the most beautiful and naturalistic. (Contrast with Smokestack + Crucible of Worlds, which is depressingly industrial.)
sonorhC
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(10 votes)
It's almost absurd, how much better this is than Lord of the Pit. It's 3 bigger. It's got a hybrid cost. You gain life when you make your sacrifices. And when you run out of creatures, it doesn't eat you, you eat it. The only drawback is that it doesn't fly, but really, on a 10/10 trampler, who needs flying?
Arachibutyrophobia
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
lol, black needs a splash of green to turn Lord of the Pit into a good card
sincleanser
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
This card is so freaking good compared to the Lord of the Pit that it's sad. Why make something that is clearly better than a good enough staple? Just to do it I guess... Oh, and it's an elemental, which is of huge importance... I hate this card because of what it has done to my memories of the game, even though it's a powerhouse of a creature.
Laguz
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(5 votes)
Good lord. Might be the most aggressively costed creature of all time...10 trampling power for seven mana! Hybrid mana at that! And the supposed 'drawback' is easily worked around to give you a steady stream of life every turn. Reassembling skeleton anyone? Not to mention it's green, so it's almost certainly hitting the board early...absolutely phenomenal.
I think Horror is a more suitable creature type than Elemental. It's coming to eat you for god's sake.
ThatStunna
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you want this guy in a reanimation deck, you can use Coffin Queen to pull out other monsters for him to eat and gain ~8 life per turn, instead of 1 per turn from tokens.
Diabolic servitude sorta works, but removes the creatures from the game each turn.
Pigfish99
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My friend has this card, and plays it like an idiot.
Theres two ways to play it. You can either play it for life gain and card shennanigans, or you use it as a creature suicide beatstick.
just make sure you can keep the upkeep cost going, and you'll be fine. If you have a token deck, this should be no sweat.
EvilDarkVoid
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Its surprisingly useful that this thing cares about the toughness of what it eats, not the power. Most creature ramp spells (Overgrown Battlement, Birds of Paradise, Sylvan Caryatid, etc.) have a higher toughness than power. Of course, when you're getting a 10/10 trample out turn 4 or so, you probably don't need much lifegain.
This guy is begging to be put on the battlefield with Varolz, the Scar-Striped. Take any green fatty you can imagine, sac him, gain the life. Scavenge him onto another green fatty. Nylea, God of the Hunt, Primal Rage, Rancor, etc for trample. Swing, repeat process. Even better with Corpsejack Menace. Or if you're not going for scavenge, Gleancrawler can make this guy endless life gain fun.
Golgarimic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Definitely one of my favourite cards: hybrid mana, flavourful, great art, and appeals to my Timmy side. Fun fact: looks like it was inspired by a D&D creature: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Doomgape_(4e_Creature)
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and it's even using hybrid mana...
Also, I have a thought. The "gain life equal to its toughness" aspect of the effect, does that toughness include +1/+1 tokens and the like? Because I have a deck where if I sacrifice this thing with its power, I could maybe get 12 life that way.
+1/+1 counters modify toughness, so yes, they also count.
About the guy asking if you can use coffin queen with this guy to gain 10 life each turn: nope. Before this guys ability triggers at the upkeep, you have to choose if you want to untap the queen or not. If you untap it, the doomgape gets removed. And if you keep it tapped, you need to wait another turn to have the queen untapped and ready. So you could sac it once every two turns. But then I'd rather do something better with the queen. :)
12/12 Doomgape
+3 Life at every beginning of your upkeep
The opponent has to sacrifice a creature whenever you sacrifice the 3/3 green worm
Cons:
-High cost
-Greakwood Liege may be easily killed/destroyed and your combo is broken
The queen's ability says: "When Coffin Queen becomes untapped or you lose control of Coffin Queen, exile that creature." If you untap queen, the ability triggers. However, this is from MtG community Main rules FAQ:
Q: What happens when a triggered ability triggers during the Untap Step?
A: When a triggered ability triggers, it waits until the next time a player would receive priority to go on the stack. In this case, that means that the triggered ability wouldn't go on the stack until the upkeep step.
So the ability waits until upkeep and because you control both abilities (queen's and doomgape's) you can order them any way to stack. First queen's then gape's, gape's resolves first; you sac it, queen's resolves; doomgape is already gone so you don't have to exile it.
But to the card itself: 10/10 trample for 7 mana ain't bad and it's eating doesn't usually matter that much because it gives you life. 4.5/5
With Black/Green, it is entirely possible that this behemoth will hit the table as early as turn 4, and there are plenty of little guys to feast upon while he goes to work. The usual mana accelerators will help you... llanowar elves, dark ritual, Sacrifice, etc.
I had a delightful vision of yet another use for Sanguine Bond looking at this guy. BWahahah.
I'm wearing out his name, but this is yet another incredible card that works with Creakwood Liege. I mean, you're boosting Doomgape to a 12/12 AND providing a 3 point lifegain every turn. Yhatzee.
4.5/5
Pros:
Hybryd
Trample
Gain Life
10/10
Awesome Art
Awesome Flavor
Awesome Flavor Text
Can't Be Doombladed (even if youre playing mono green)
Awesome name
Can Eat itself for 10 Life
One of the funnest cards I own 5/5
This card was made before they had the Mythic Rare category.
All in all this thing is ridiculous. I got it out of a booster box that I paid 60 bucks for.(SCORE!) I don't yet know where I want to put it, but it's gonna help wherever it goes.
this can be dropped turn 4 for 11 damage as part of an inblock combo
also, if you cast Double Cleave on it then its a turn 34win
(assuming you played something like Smokebraider on turn 2)
if you went with a green red build,
Turn 1: forest + bird of paradise
Turn 2: mountain + Incandescent Soulstoke
Turn 3: land + put doomgape into play via soulstoke then double cleave for 22 trample damage
4x Pestilence Demon
4x Butcher of Malakir
4x Doomgape
4x Madrush Cyclops (RGB)
4x Pelakka Wurm
1x Elixir of Immortality
1x Sol Ring
4x Necrologia
4x Pyrrhic Revival
4x Diabolic Tutor
23x Swamps
The monogreen timmy in me gives it a 10.5/5
The blue/white combo player that gets eaten alive by aggro starts drinking and gives it .5/5.
so its a 5/5.
Master of Aetherium is just like Paris Hilton. He pretends to be stupid and that's why he is famous in the Gatherer community. If he was like everybody else he would not get the recognition he needs.
Cards like this annoy me, because there is no reason NOT to play them. Think about it: if you were a casual deck-builder playing a green/black deck, why wouldn't you play this card? I think that it is important for cards not to be auto-include because if every card were like that then it would be almost impossible to choose what cards to put into a deck. Sure, sure, you could say that "card X deals with Doomgape easy" but the average casual player isn't going to know that, and especially not just from looking at the card. You could say that the sac effect would deter casual players, but that effect also comes with life gain, which casual players love.
Anyway I am sure there is a good rebuttal to what I am saying, and I would like to know what that is so I can better assess this card's fun value. At the moment it just irritates me (maybe that is the point of it? :P)
I think Xathrid Demon does it better. Does that card please Timmy? Doomgape's 10/10 looks alot bigger than 7/7 though.
Nom-nom-nom-nom-nom-Nom-nom-nom-nom-nom-Nom-nom-nom-nom-nom.
And that's all you really need to know.
Anyways, looks like so much fun, giant creature with a very good ability, AND hybrid mana
42/5
Not talking combo potential or what have you,
Just in sheer amounts of power.
Doomgape here, Deity of Scars, their Woodlurker Mimic had a powerful boost, and Quillspike got out of control fast.
I don't know, maybe it's just me.
But I'm a B/G player anyway, so I loved it.
trust me I can do two creatures per turn...
and gravepact just makes it so much sweeter.
I would like more cards with "Doom" in the title, please. I would consider it a personal favor if any of those cards are also ridiculously oversized underprotected the-whole-table-laughs-when-it-hits-play mega-monsters with highly evocative art and enjoyable flavor text, but, really, that's much too much to ask, and to be honest I'm plenty satisfied with fun mediocre-even-in-casual-play junk like Doom Cannon. (And I think it'll be d*mn hard to top the name Doomgape.)
However, I have a small quibble. Next time you all decide to charge ahead and be bold and print a card this cool, could you please give it the Legendary supertype, so that I can play it as my commander in EDH?
Many thanks! 5+/5.
P.S. It's really not too late to bring back doom counters. Just saying.
P.P.S. Doomgape + Enduring Renewal may not be the most efficient combo in Magic, but it's one of the most beautiful and naturalistic. (Contrast with Smokestack + Crucible of Worlds, which is depressingly industrial.)
this turns your 'zone into an Ajani's Mantra
Close enough, shut up.
C'mon...WoTC. I truly hate this card, but I still need four just to compete...
It's coming to eat you for god's sake.
Diabolic servitude sorta works, but removes the creatures from the game each turn.
Theres two ways to play it. You can either play it for life gain and card shennanigans, or you use it as a creature suicide beatstick.
just make sure you can keep the upkeep cost going, and you'll be fine. If you have a token deck, this should be no sweat.