Fun to play in a creatureless deck with other cards like Barter in Blood.
spectermonger
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(12 votes)
And so cometh the turn one Marit Lage, but a voice sayeth, "let there be innocent blood" and Marit Lage was no more.
Oddly enough, I run this in a Legacy deck that uses Marit Lage, but it's primarily to get rid of the Abyssal Persecutors that I use alongside Tombstalkers as giant beat-sticks as a contingency plan in case Lage fails.
@ the person who prefers bone splinters, a quick lesson in the art of killing absolutely *** everything. ok so here's the deal right first off, this card is better than bone splinters for multiplayer, secondly bone splinters gets around indestructible and protection from black. enemy playing a darksteel deck or just has progenitus in play? first you kill all their crappy creatures with massacre or preferably massacre worm, assassins, cards like bone splinters and gravepact to get more bang for your buck, maybe pestilence if they happen to play alot of 3/3's or more, then you just make them sacrifice a few creatures, this + gravepact + reassembling skeleton + stronghold assassin equal about 1 kill and 3 sacrifices in one turn so supposing they have 4 creatures left even if 3 of them are indestructible with pro-black and shroud you'll kill everything they have.
Paladin85
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Cheapest kill spell and also anti shroud (player or creature) protection and indestructibility
Also, very fun in multiplayer
5/5
Glitcha
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
sooo i played a swamp turn one with a two dark rituals and so i could play a Guul Draz vampire with two blade of the blood chiefs attached, turn two i played a guul draz assasin and played this card (innocent blood) it was a four player match and every1 had to sacrifice, vampire became a 17/17 creature and i almost killed some1 in turn two.... just saying... its a nice card :P
itskelseydrew
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Imagine a monoblack deck set on denial. Main goal is to destroy land and creatures.
Now you have some cheap creatures that can ALWAYS come back.
Play some rats and skeletons and throw out an Innocent Blood and you basically have an easy way to destroy opponents' creatures while maintaining your own battlefield.
Better yet, get your hands on a Death Baron. Not enough zombies to do so? Throw in Grave Titan. Now all of your 2/2 zombie creature tokens become 3/3's and if they get destroyed, just attack using your Grave Titan. You have an infinite supply of 3/3 zombies, assuming you're smart enough to keep your Titan on the board.
igniteice
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@omggeesterliciousman
bone splinters has nothing in comparison to this card. Innocent blood can be played when you have no creatures, it can kill indestructible creatures, and it can kill creatures that can't be targeted.
BongRipper420
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is nice against aggro decks early game, and certain control decks late game for a multitude of reasons. Also it notably gets around protection, indestructibility, shroud and hex proof. So not even the most durable creatures are safe. And all just for . Easily a 4/5, at least.
wholelottalove
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Latronis, not ever word that has an s on the end needs an apostrophe.
Xineombine
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
My opponent summoned an Consuming Aberration and its P/t was 16/16, all I had was a sheoldred, and a bringer of the black dawn with animate dead on it, so next turn, I reanimate my geralf's messenger with sheoldreds effect and useing my bringer, getting this, he lost two, then I cast this, sac'd geralf's messenger he lost 2 again, I landfalled in my bloodghast and hammered him for 12 , his life total was 10...
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
People are so stupid -_- How the CRAP does this get the 4 stars (that it justly deserves) and Renounce the Guilds gets 2.5/LESS?! o.O
I would have thought that people who remembered how to use Innocent Blood would see that, conditional though Renounce may be, the conditions *ARE creatable to make it good? In Limited, simply play Mono Colored! It will be a major surprise to anyone expecting you to go Guilded! of course, that's risky, but the Risk is worth the Reward if you get enough "Gateless" cards. Simic is likely the best place to do this. And your non-permanents can still be multicolored in such a deck if you want! In FACT Keyrunes and Cluestones and Lands are all themselves colorless, though they let you build multicolored decks.
REALLY it's like nobody with any imagination or spirit or daring tried to submit a comment on Renounce the Guilds other than "I'm a lazy person who likes it when Goldness makes my cards so good I don't have to be good with them to win." I really can't fathom how any of them are able to miss...everything...about it. I mean EVEN if the card is only 3.3 stars, not 3.5 or 4.0 as I guess, I WOULD have thought there would be more Johnny-ish types sticking up for it- because True Johnnies are simply the ones that make Bad Cards into Good Cards, not the ones that don't understand how to do anything except if it involves Doubling Season or Knowledge Pool.
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Darthparallax: Renounce the Guilds is a dead draw very often - if your opponent is mono-colours, just doesn't have his multicoloured stuff out (most decks only have like eight or ten multicoloured cards and they're usually at least 3 mana so this is mostly useless until turn 4) or if you have your multicoloured stuff out, it's unusable. Innocent Blood can be used in so many situations and is by far the better card.
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Oddly enough, I run this in a Legacy deck that uses Marit Lage, but it's primarily to get rid of the Abyssal Persecutors that I use alongside Tombstalkers as giant beat-sticks as a contingency plan in case Lage fails.
check out my comment on Mad Auntie
ok so here's the deal right first off, this card is better than bone splinters for multiplayer, secondly bone splinters gets around indestructible and protection from black.
enemy playing a darksteel deck or just has progenitus in play? first you kill all their crappy creatures with massacre or preferably massacre worm, assassins, cards like bone splinters and gravepact to get more bang for your buck, maybe pestilence if they happen to play alot of 3/3's or more, then you just make them sacrifice a few creatures, this + gravepact + reassembling skeleton + stronghold assassin equal about 1 kill and 3 sacrifices in one turn so supposing they have 4 creatures left even if 3 of them are indestructible with pro-black and shroud you'll kill everything they have.
Also, very fun in multiplayer
5/5
Play some Reassembling Skeleton and, if you use Swarmyard you can easily play Typhoid Rats
Now you have some cheap creatures that can ALWAYS come back.
Play some rats and skeletons and throw out an Innocent Blood and you basically have an easy way to destroy opponents' creatures while maintaining your own battlefield.
Better yet, get your hands on a Death Baron. Not enough zombies to do so? Throw in Grave Titan. Now all of your 2/2 zombie creature tokens become 3/3's and if they get destroyed, just attack using your Grave Titan. You have an infinite supply of 3/3 zombies, assuming you're smart enough to keep your Titan on the board.
bone splinters has nothing in comparison to this card. Innocent blood can be played when you have no creatures, it can kill indestructible creatures, and it can kill creatures that can't be targeted.
I would have thought that people who remembered how to use Innocent Blood would see that, conditional though Renounce may be, the conditions *ARE creatable to make it good? In Limited, simply play Mono Colored! It will be a major surprise to anyone expecting you to go Guilded! of course, that's risky, but the Risk is worth the Reward if you get enough "Gateless" cards. Simic is likely the best place to do this. And your non-permanents can still be multicolored in such a deck if you want! In FACT Keyrunes and Cluestones and Lands are all themselves colorless, though they let you build multicolored decks.
REALLY it's like nobody with any imagination or spirit or daring tried to submit a comment on Renounce the Guilds other than "I'm a lazy person who likes it when Goldness makes my cards so good I don't have to be good with them to win." I really can't fathom how any of them are able to miss...everything...about it. I mean EVEN if the card is only 3.3 stars, not 3.5 or 4.0 as I guess, I WOULD have thought there would be more Johnny-ish types sticking up for it- because True Johnnies are simply the ones that make Bad Cards into Good Cards, not the ones that don't understand how to do anything except if it involves Doubling Season or Knowledge Pool.
Please reprint Innocent Blood.
Love, Target Player
Okay, you would probably still lose in the end, but this card is great