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If you don't like her, I'll take your copies.

Fun card. Looking to make a deck that runs this card.

Fits in well with the ol' green/red pandemonium and primal forcemage combo.

I Got Her in Jund and she works well with the devour strategy putting out devour chow that combos with Kresh the Bloodbraided's ability adding 3 +1/+1 counters a pop.

I guess she already has haste, so you could even go with a cheaper shroud card and use it in Izzit.

Great Red card. The fact that you don't have to sacrifice the elements that she makes, makes up for her low toughness.
4.0

My only negative for this is the toughness. No doubt a Bolt magnet but on top of that i wish it was alteast 3 toughness just so i could run volcanic fallout or pyroclasm with it lol.

the real problem is that she has to tap to make the elementals, but Intruder Alarm can fix that. otherwise a great card

Non-trampling, non-self-sacrificing Hellspark Elementals for R every turn? cool

Im planning to build a mono red deck soon, and I have a friend who has one of these. The only thing I would like to see though, is the token having trample as well.

Rakka Mar + Vein Drinker: a nasty pair of ladies when played in an aggro black/red deck like mine.

Rakka mar is actually a very decent card, she's only slightly weaker than creakwood liege, in that both are 4 mana 2/2 creatures who produce 3 attack power tokens. The only downside to rakka being she needs 1 of r type mana to do this every turn compared to creakwood's at upkeep. On the plus side, she can do this the turn she comes into play (enabling you to keep a 3/1 blocker if she gets removed, or attack with that token immediately), and her tokens have haste, something creakwood liege does not have. She's very good for devour decks and token decks, or black/red with bitterblossoms. Her seeming protege jund battlemage can produce saprolings for 1 g type mana, so its easy to see how you could pair the two together to get a 1/1 saproling and a 3/1 elemental once per turn for 2 mana.

Also, a surprisingly decent electropotence strategy, basically just don't pay the electropotence cost until rakka hits play, then start pumping out 3/1's that do a lightning bolt every turn for 3 mana. Would be really scary if you could find any way to untap her as well, such as with crackleburr, though that might be somewhat mana intensive.

Another interesting point is to note that she has 2 attack power and is thereby reveillark'able.

I'm happy but I'm frustrated at the same time. I got a conflux pack today, and I pulled a thornling and this was right behind it. But it was foil. I hate using foils in my deck for some reason! Does anyone else feel that way too?

this could shine in STD with sarkhan the mad

Oh Intruder Alarm, is there nothing you can't combo with?

She doesn't look anything like she was described by Doug Beyer in Alara Unbroken. I was expecting someone fuglier.

I run her in a blue/red token/control deck and used to have Loxodon Warhammer for support. After Scars of Mirrodin came out I tried Grafted Exoskeleton in place of the Warhammer. HAHAHAHAHA!! 5/3 Haste Infect for 3... So so mean. If nothing else she certainly does force your opponent to deal with her, which is always good.

I was debating with someone about how red never gets non-destruction card advantage. I pointed out this card as proof of constructive advantage. He said it was too slow. ಠ_ಠ

@Tommy, not gunna lie, but she is a little slow. I'm not EVER one to knock being able to poop out a creature a turn, but that is STILL something red gets the short end of the stick with. She is by NO means bad, but a single 3/1 a turn is hardly good creative card-advantage compared to most colors, especially with how easily she's shut down by ever other color

Never play chess with Bolas. Ever. He always cheats.

Ronin Warclub

@EvilCleavage

I'm with ya bro, foil cards start out warped and non-foils look better in my humble opinion.

@DacenOctavio

I guess she could look a bit less dashing, but she really inst all that attractive anyway.

About this card, shes OK, pretty beastly in EDH especially if you can protect her.

4/5 Stars

Perfect creature type for Thornbite Staff. Specially if you want to abuse some sacrifice ability or death trigger (think Phyrexian Altar and Vicious Shadows).
On a side note, it was nice of R&D to make this right after Lorwyn so we had an use for those 3/1 Hostility tokens.

This is VERY underrated.
Who the crap rated this so low?

You can somewhat look at this card as costing with an upkeep cost of . Produce 3/1 haste that stick around is actually very good, especially since you get one on the first go.

So, according the Magic, the finest pawns/minions:

1. Know what you need without you ever saying a thing.
2. Serve you in the light.
3. Sometimes does not do Darkness'es dirty work.
4. Don't mind sacrificing themselves as long as the king reigns.
5. Can kill giants, scoop out their skulls, and drive them back to Blood Ridge.