This card is best played @ 1st or 2nd turn with a good 1/1 or stronger creature.
Note; beefing up your critters in early game is almost always one of the best choices. My rating: 3.5/5 is because cards like Unsummon kills this and your possible tactic early game.
EpicBroccoli
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Better with Infect.
pigknight
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Ok in black aggro.
Awesome in my w/b infect deck.
3.5/5
sly92
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
works well with vampire nighthawk... but it also places an even larger target on his forehead
It falls to creature removal, yes. It falls to Mental Misstep, yes. There are better cards out there, yes. Despite all of that, though, this never fails to help me get the job done. I put it on a Black Knight and swing for 4 with first strike. I put it on a Vampire Nighthawk and swing for 4 in the air with lifelink. I put it on Vampire Lacerator and swing for 4 on turn 2. It's a great utility card.
Paleopaladin
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
In draft/sealed limited in core sets few people are ever happy to see an unholy strengthened Black Knight on the other side of the board on turn 3. The day this card rates less than 3/5 is the day when we know that Wizards has finally power-inflated the game into oblivion.
mike_stubbs1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Definitely looks a lot better in an Infect deck. Plague Stinger's damage tripled for one mana? Yes, please. Would also go great on a Phyrexian Crusader or, of course, a Blighted Agent.
JFM2796
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Classic Black enchantment. Better than the White one.
NoobOfLore
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
: Make an unassuming creature threatening.
penguinmage25
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
funniest hand ever 2swamps 3unholy strengths 1phyrexian crusader 1dark ritual
turn one lay swamp dark ritual for a phyrexian crusader turn two lay a swamp put two unholy strengths on phyrexian crusader attack for 6 poison you opponent rips his cards in half and quits
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Note; beefing up your critters in early game is almost always one of the best choices. My rating: 3.5/5 is because cards like Unsummon kills this and your possible tactic early game.
Awesome in my w/b infect deck.
3.5/5
turn one lay swamp dark ritual for a phyrexian crusader turn two lay a swamp put two unholy strengths on phyrexian crusader attack for 6 poison you opponent rips his cards in half and quits
3/5
Recently this was outclassed by Predator's Gambit, but I don't know if I wanna acquire a playset of it only because of situational evasiveness.