This was the first single card I ever purchased. I wish I could go back in time and slap myself for not getting a playable card.
Vizzerdrix80
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(10 votes)
Cosmic Horrible
Zulp
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(7 votes)
I hate it when awesome names are wasted on terrible cards.
donjohnson
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Thankfully I never bought this one. But I did buy a playset of Nut Collector....so I guess Im just as ignorant. Chalk it up to naivety. Something looks good and until you know the game a bit better you dont see how bad it really is.
Eved
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Don't complain about him, just use him with Eon Hub. It's hard to complain about a black 7/7 First strike for cmc when you take away the drawback.
Carnophage_4ever
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I give it a 2/5 as a stand alone, and a definite 4/5 with Eon Hub, with which it's a 7/7 black first striker for 6 cmc. Why not a 5/5 with Eon hub then? Because if you cast this and an opponent destroys your Hub right after, you've just hurt yourself badly. Black is always a risk!
Chamale
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
The oracle changed the flavour text. Has that happened to any other card?
Belz_
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@MacBizzle: And your post has what to do with Cosmic Horror ?
MacBizzle
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It has everything to do with Cosmic Horror. You put him out if you need a big combat guy, with the option of paying 6 every turn in dire circumstances. If you decide he's not worth it anymore, you let him die, but awe strike him so you gain 7 life for a single white mana.
Tynansdtm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
You could also make him indestructible. There are more ways to do that then there are cards like Eon Hub.
PhyrexianFryCook
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
First strike? What? Why?
Areps
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
only true ballin planeswalkers can maintain this ba guy
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Its... its... its freaking adorable and I love it. Like a little baby emrakul. Honestly, I like him over Lord of the Pit for limited purposes at least. They deal with it or they die, they can't play around his drawback as easily; they would need something like Armageddon to do that.
occamsrazorwit
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Ximenez: I know, right? The Rape of the Lock is a parody of epic poetry that deals with an epic battle for a lock of beautiful hair. Essentially the stuff nightmares are made of.
atemu1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If only they could have just said freaking ECHO?!
Iasonas
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
To those who wonder why this card has such a bad drawback, remember the environment when the card was first made. Drawbacks were made on some cards to prevent opponents from taking full advantage of a card. Players with Animate Dead, Resurrection, and Control Magic would have a field day if cards such as Cosmic Horror , Mold Demon, and Force of Nature have no drawbacks. It takes a lot of resources for a mono-colored mage to cast his power card and we don't want them feeling cheated when someone just steals it away from them with nothing to lose. Most people in the earliest days of Magic run only a single color.
chicollicolli
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
I'm surprised that no one here has picked up on, or has at least commented about, the obvious Lovecraft influence with regards to this card.
With the name cosmic horror and it's amorphous disposition this looks like a card depiction of Azathoth, the blind idiot god, or a shoggoth. Probably the shoggoth, the blind idiot would surely have to be many times more powerful than a 7/7.
Here's a shoggoth quote, "a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming." - H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness.
Doesn't Cosmic Horror fit that de***ion nicely? Why yes.
Ximenez
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Seems more in the Dunwich Horror vein to me...
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Donate it. Strictly more terrifying than a beeble bomb.
MillingMaster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like the flavor text from the Legends edition better :P
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Chalk it up to naivety. Something looks good and until you know the game a bit better you dont see how bad it really is.
its...
its freaking adorable and I love it. Like a little baby emrakul.
Honestly, I like him over Lord of the Pit for limited purposes at least. They deal with it or they die, they can't play around his drawback as easily; they would need something like Armageddon to do that.
I know, right? The Rape of the Lock is a parody of epic poetry that deals with an epic battle for a lock of beautiful hair. Essentially the stuff nightmares are made of.
With the name cosmic horror and it's amorphous disposition this looks like a card depiction of Azathoth, the blind idiot god, or a shoggoth.
Probably the shoggoth, the blind idiot would surely have to be many times more powerful than a 7/7.
Here's a shoggoth quote, "a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming." - H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness.
Doesn't Cosmic Horror fit that de***ion nicely? Why yes.