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Lol, Knight of Holy Nimbus.

You might put it into a white land destruction deck...

A possible annoying creature, although most players can easily afford the to stop its regenerating, even after an Armageddon...

Damping Matrix.

I used to toss these guys in my old shcool white deck as a 1 drop... they were pretty funny. The ability didn't pan out all that often, but it was funny when someone forgot about it at odd ball times and they came back.

If they can live long enough, boosts and enchantments could make these guys incredibly annoying. In a raw control deck featuring things like Winter Orb and Meekstone they could be a real pain in the ass to get rid of.

3/5

Actually, since the average player will want to use every land he has to play what's in his hand, this is actually kinda viable in the early game, at least. But probably not often enough to do much more than it can as a 1/1 weenie.

@Lateralis0ne

Would the oracle text be considered activated? From looking at the card's original text, I think it was meant to be triggered... Like the clergy would have to be dealt lethal damage, THEN the triggered optional 1 cost ability would be on the stack...

great card for peasant magic when combined with wordmail

@MacBizzle: Beats me. After the rules change at sixth I don't know when I should play regeneration cost in combat.

@tavaritz

You can pay regeneration costs anytime you could play an instant (unless the card says otherwise), meaning that during the combat phase alone you could activate it at least three times: during the beginning of combat step, after attackers are declared, and after blocker are declared. You can also activate it during the first strike combat damage step, combat damage step, and end of combat step, provided it has not been destroyed.

Let me tell you young'uns a story, from way back in the days before the Consolidated Rules. Back then, all we had were the little booklets that came with a deck, and the judges. At that time, the rule (such as it was) was that a creature with 0 toughness was destroyed, and so it was possible to regenerate it. Now, usually this didn't make much difference, since when the creature came back, it would still have 0 toughness, and so would just be destroyed all over again, but still, regeneration was possible. So what happens when you cast a Weakness or the like on a Clergy of the Holy Nimbus? (This was also before the rule that an infinite loop meant a draw). Well, when a rules judge was confronted with that question, he did the only thing he could: He made something up. In this case, the ruling was that the clergy would just keep on regenerating continuously, while steps, phases, and turns ended, stuck on the battlefield perpetually tapped until the end of the game, or at least until the Weakness got destroyed or someone paid for him to finish dying. Ah, the lawless days of youth.

This seems rather good with Cursed Totem or Damping Matrix, although it's still killed by Terror, Dark Banishing, Terminate, Putrefy, Seal of Doom, Smother, Disfigure, Incinerate, Wrath of God...

Also good with The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale; your opponent might not want to save the mana necessary to kill it.

Seems like its ripe for a rewording. The printed card seems to have a replacement effect that occurs when it is destroyed, and the oracle has a one time payment for until end of turn.

Oracle text makes the ability less useful, but its overall slightly better since it is now a Human Cleric.

"Clergy are regenerated".

Wat.

That is some of the greatest grammar I have ever seen on a card.

This would make slightly more sense in Lolcatz speak.

Hilariously fun card. Well-timed chump blocks with cards like this can be extremely abnoxious; it's one of those cards that your opponent knows will drive them insane, but don't actually bother removing because it's so dam weak (unless he has shock or wring flesh in his hand....)


For Casual control decks, this could see some serious use.

"Clergy are regenerated" makes perfect sense, because "clergy" is plural as well as singular, being a collective noun.

It makes more sense in British English, but still.

Pithing Needle and cards like this = Awesome :)

There were time when regeneration was a replacement effect, regeneration ability could only be played when a creature is moving to a graveyard, and damage could be prevented only at the time damage is assigned (spell that deals damage or combat resolved but the damage isn't inflicted yet).

So, the change in text on this card was a necessity as I see it as the whole "instant and interrupt", damage prevention and regeneration rules have been reworked completely.

@car2n Can I haz clergy are regenerated?