So, if I have Transcendence out, can I pay negative life?
kusumoto
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Kataklyzmik You can't pay life you don't have.
theriddler
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
can you say purity
izzet_guild_mage
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Sorry riddler, I can't, and neither can you. It's life loss, not damage.
EGarrett01
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
3 Summer Bloom
4 Exploration
4 Rites of Flourishing
4 Crucible of Worlds
4 Life from the Loam
2 Seal of Primordium
3 Enlightened Tutor
3 Constant Mists
4 Zuran Orb
4 Glacial Chasm
@Kataklyzmik : This isn't something that is a good idea to use with Transcendence as each Age counter will end up making you gain 4 life each turn you pay the upkeep. Basically you pay 2 life the first turn and gain 4 life, the next turn you lose 4 life and gain 8 back, then 6 and 12, 8 and 16. Eventually paying the upkeep for Glacial Chasm will cause you to lose the game unless you make it go away or get rid of Transcendence or both.
TheSwarm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Gonna make a deck.. Was so excited when it read reduce damage to 0 cuz then volcano hellion would work, Do ten trillion damage to a stuffy doll... But nope. Damn Oracle text.
NARFNra
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Should really be errata'd to be snow. I mean seriously...
@vadaaaa: Camulative upkeep is optional, same reason you cant just donate a sheltering ancient and ubber pump your creatures, they have the option to just sac it.
oh, and Grixis Illusionist. Tap during there end step and you now no longer have to pay the upkeep.
@bijart_dauth That is actually a great idea! I don't know why people voted you down.
Any of the temporary basic land changers will break this card. As during your turn, it is a vanilla land that taps for a color and allows you to attack while during theirs (well, on your end step) it becomes it's old self, preventing all damage. You get all of the positive effects without any of the negative (except the one time sac-a-land trigger).
Just remember to change it on their end phase since, as with all EOT triggers, it won't change back until the NEXT (your) end phase.
Nice find!
Psychrates
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I thought of this card when I 1st laid my eyes on Eon Hub. I thought, " W-T-F WoTC, don't you know what this will do with us dingus-geddon types??? I'm beatin' ALL that A-S-S, Vintage style."
Hell, I've even paid the upkeep, a few times.
SirMalkin
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Looks like it would work quite well with Phyrexian Unlife. So long as you keep both protected and have a non-creature wincon, you should be sitting pretty.
Eluem
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@SirMalkin, You can't pay life you don't have... so... this + Phyrexian Unlife only lasts for a little while... and then you can't pay the upkeep cost..
DritzD27
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Gonna be in FTV: Realms!
Arachibutyrophobia
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perhaps this can buy you a couple turns, but if you don't have a plan then ur dead
SarcasmElemental
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Reminder that you can only play one land per turn.
Sun Titan alleviates the Cumulative Upkeep by allowing you to sacrifice it without paying the cost and snaps it right back, stopping your opponent from hurting you. Knight of the Reliquary gets buffed off the sacrificed lands and will be able to attack. (It can also tutor for the chasm)
Neither an infinite combo nor a hard lock, but it can likely win games.
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You can't pay life you don't have.
4 Exploration
4 Rites of Flourishing
4 Crucible of Worlds
4 Life from the Loam
2 Seal of Primordium
3 Enlightened Tutor
3 Constant Mists
4 Zuran Orb
4 Glacial Chasm
4 Savannah
3 Forest
4 Windswept Heath
4 Kabira Crossroads
3 Horizon Canopy
4 Pirahna Marsh
1 Nantuko Monastery
2 God's Eye
Glacial Chasm is quite the engine when combined with Crucible. Very fun.
9 goblins and one Skirk Fire Marshal?
oh, and Grixis Illusionist. Tap during there end step and you now no longer have to pay the upkeep.
That is actually a great idea! I don't know why people voted you down.
Any of the temporary basic land changers will break this card. As during your turn, it is a vanilla land that taps for a color and allows you to attack while during theirs (well, on your end step) it becomes it's old self, preventing all damage. You get all of the positive effects without any of the negative (except the one time sac-a-land trigger).
Just remember to change it on their end phase since, as with all EOT triggers, it won't change back until the NEXT (your) end phase.
Nice find!
Hell, I've even paid the upkeep, a few times.
You can't pay life you don't have... so... this + Phyrexian Unlife only lasts for a little while... and then you can't pay the upkeep cost..
Sun Titan alleviates the Cumulative Upkeep by allowing you to sacrifice it without paying the cost and snaps it right back, stopping your opponent from hurting you. Knight of the Reliquary gets buffed off the sacrificed lands and will be able to attack. (It can also tutor for the chasm)
Neither an infinite combo nor a hard lock, but it can likely win games.