For some reason this reminds me of the Alien movies.
SeiberTross
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Fantastic kill spell for limited. Almost feels like a much less annoying Necrotic Plague.
mflanaga
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Could I disperse this as its ability triggers to get it back for more alien myr bursts?
EvilCartographer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
It isn't efficient. It isn't particularly good. I don't even understand how the flavor is supposed to make sense (Surprise! You had a robot....er...growing inside of you. Yeah, growing...). But it does kill the other guy's creature. It does give you a chump blocker in return (more than a chump blocker with enough Galvanizers, Overseers, Myr Matrix, etc).
I will try to fit it into my Mono Black Myr deck, but I doubt it will make it out of the sideboard as long as Grasp of Darkness, Go for the Throat, Dismember, etc are still legal.
Mephastopheles
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Combos with Cache Raiders! Lol. Repeatable kill and a stream of 1/1 myr for 4 isn't that bad... Hmmm...
Rikiaz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ EvilCartogrpher and anyone else who doesn't understand the flavour
The Myr that grows inside the creature isn't a robot, it's a living machine. Just like living weapons and the metal that grows on the Mirrans it is an organic living metal. Phyrexia implants a small Myr made of this kind of metal inside the victim and it grows then it ends up killing the host when is "born" by bursting out of the host's body.
Leshrac_Nightwalker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@qwertycrap:
Good call! If only the myr grew up to be a Skinrender somehow, you'd be well on your way to making a tribute deck to Alien/Aliens.
HuntingDrake
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Weaker though it would be, I would have preferred "destroy", so that some poor regenerator could agonizingly birth dozens of Myr.
Edit: ...Like the original design: Parasite Implantation 1B Enchantment — Aura Enchant creature At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy enchanted creature and put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield under your control. http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/143
luca_barelli
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The fact that they can get off one last attack before the creature dies has cost me games and makes this, in most cases, inferior to a simple Doom Blade.
llirreh
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
You know, I would have thought that the ability to get rid of an indestructible critter would be rated higher....
Splizer
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Something about this card.... is just so suitably grotesque its amazing.
Jesicani
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This is actually a pretty decent sideboard card as it allows YOU to CHOOSE which card your opponent must sacrifice, when typically, when you make your opponent sacrifice a creature, like through a Geth's Verdict as an example,its his/her choice. So if your opponent manages to drop down an indestructible creature (yes there's not very many but its always best to come prepared) you'll be able to attach this card to that creature, and your opponent will pretty much be forced to sacrifice it (since indestructible does not protect from sacrifice effects).
ROBRAM89
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's the baby from Dead Alive. Somehow you had a whole Myr wadded up inside your head and it had no effect until now.
For 4 mana, you kill their guy and get a myr. It is a tad expensive as you have to wait until your next upkeep (They could return the creature to their deck, or any other number of responses to lose the enchantment), but it is fairly solid.
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I haz turned ur ulamog, the infinite gyre into a myr! happeh berthday! wut?! u don wont meh myr? :( dat makes meh sad.
Cloudeye
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"And now Ladies and Gentlemen we gonna turn this respectfull Blightsteel Colossus into an adorable myr Cooperfield style"
Bassicly this is Time Bomb Negate. Look out though. Shroud and Hexproof shrug thi's off and Haste creature will go kamikaze anyway. Also curb stomped by Lightning Grave's in cassual.
humor_love
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yeah, target-able forced sacrifice is a pretty precious thing. Don't downplay that one bit. Figure out a way to prevent the creature from attacking or from using abilities, if you can. With black, some form of blocking shouldn't be too far-fetched. Besides, this spell replaces that blocker for you.
By its self, it's about a 3.5. Given the right deck in which to work - or against which to play, it's more like a 4.
("You" in a card always refers the controller of the card or spell. Enchant creature spells are normally controlled by their caster, no matter who controls the creature enchanted.)
gravebornQ
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have a question about this cards affect. When it says at the beginning of your next upkeep, does that mean on the controller of the enchanted creature's upkeep or at the beginning of the controller of the spell's next upkeep?
NoobOfLore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Black creature removal with no restrictions. It is delayed, and possibly counterable by enchant removal, but it even gives you a little chump afterwards. Just about fair, I like it. For when you need it dead soon, but not right now.
Hosmer1980
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Would this card work with Mycosynth Lattice, Mirrorworks, and Parallel Lives? Would these cards in play first let you make multiple copies of it to hit multiple creatures the opponent controls?
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This wording is confusing...
If it was not for the ruling I would think my opponent got the 1/1 myr.
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It isn't particularly good.
I don't even understand how the flavor is supposed to make sense (Surprise! You had a robot....er...growing inside of you. Yeah, growing...).
But it does kill the other guy's creature.
It does give you a chump blocker in return (more than a chump blocker with enough Galvanizers, Overseers, Myr Matrix, etc).
I will try to fit it into my Mono Black Myr deck, but I doubt it will make it out of the sideboard as long as Grasp of Darkness, Go for the Throat, Dismember, etc are still legal.
The Myr that grows inside the creature isn't a robot, it's a living machine. Just like living weapons and the metal that grows on the Mirrans it is an organic living metal. Phyrexia implants a small Myr made of this kind of metal inside the victim and it grows then it ends up killing the host when is "born" by bursting out of the host's body.
Good call! If only the myr grew up to be a Skinrender somehow, you'd be well on your way to making a tribute deck to Alien/Aliens.
Edit: ...Like the original design:
Parasite Implantation
1B
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
At the beginning of your upkeep, destroy enchanted creature and put a 1/1 colorless Myr artifact creature token onto the battlefield under your control.
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/143
Bassicly this is Time Bomb Negate. Look out though. Shroud and Hexproof shrug thi's off and Haste creature will go kamikaze anyway. Also curb stomped by Lightning Grave's in cassual.
By its self, it's about a 3.5. Given the right deck in which to work - or against which to play, it's more like a 4.
("You" in a card always refers the controller of the card or spell. Enchant creature spells are normally controlled by their caster, no matter who controls the creature enchanted.)
It is delayed, and possibly counterable by enchant removal, but it even gives you a little chump afterwards.
Just about fair, I like it. For when you need it dead soon, but not right now.
If it was not for the ruling I would think my opponent got the 1/1 myr.
skinrender=alien
phyrexian obliterator=queen