Best when used against your opponent's alpha strike, when subsequently followed by your alpha strike. Beating a Spike with a quintessential 'scrub card' like this is worth twenty troll points in my book.
majinara
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Unplayable in any format.
HanZzz
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(5 votes)
Do we really need this? Big yawn! In this set I would have rather seen a white card that deals with poison counters and preferably something of better quality than that Leeches card from Homelands.
Gavrilo
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Lifegain of type that was obsolete long ago. Now in set where lifegain is even more obsolete then ever. Was it too hard to add some doubling/cantrippin' metalcraft to make it worth 14 pick? Worst card in Scars, IMO.
channelblaze
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
It's a beacon of immortality (i mean the art). Except it sucks.
Frozenwings
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Rest for the Weary is nice spell, this is not.At least they had to add metalcraft or proliferate ability -_-
Cheza
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Useless. Mercadian Masques power-level. Compare it with Lone Missionary....
CJM2
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(3 votes)
This card makes no sense. It's almost exactly the same art as Beacon of Immortality except it's far weaker, so it's off flavor-wise. Rest for the Weary has a landfall trigger for more life gain, so it's not even as good as that. It's card disadvantage. The other forms of life gain in Scars are just vastly superior, and the existence of Infect just makes it completely worthless.
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Soothing Balm is better... because it is from Masques. Oh, and you can aim it elsewhere.
Nighthawk42
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This and the other life gaining spells seem to be an attempt to make Felidar Sovereign and Serra Ascendant into a playable deck type. There may be a point where it becomes playable, but this is clearly worse than Rest for the Weary.
Infect is actually uniquely bad against that sort of a lifegain deck since it does nothing to prevent the opponent's ascendants becoming 6/6 lifelink flyers for 1 mana at 30 life or him winning when his life hits 40.
PhyrexianAdvocate
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I think people look at cards like this in the wrong way. Granted, it sucks against Infect, but not everyone plays Infect.
I sideboard it for my mono-white standard deck, to use as sort of a soft counter against the super-fast standard mono-red Kuldotha Rebirth, Galvanic Blast decks. Instant speed makes it playable, not main deck of course, but it's very good at taking the bite out of Lightning Bolt and all its myriad progeny.
It's certainly not winning the game, but with some equipped Sunspear Shikari's on the board, and dropping a few Kemba's Skyguards, you can gum up the game until red runs out of steam.
statiefreez
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This card is awesome! It trades favorably with Lightning Bolt and Galvanic Blast, and it buys me time to draw other spells, since that Goblin Guide my opponent keeps hitting me with gives me lands.
Stop me if my logic is flawed...
luca_barelli
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Good in a Rage Extractor deck, useless almost everywhere else.
JFM2796
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This should cost .
Hanksingle
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Given the pressure of poison, it might have been nice to see a 'or prevent (some number) of damage' - life totals being a little less wholly meaningful than they once were.
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
to this date Heroes Reunion still sets the standard for 2-mana lifegain spells.
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Well... On a positive, it's a good replacement for Sacred nectar.
My friend, who has been playing for two years now, once seriously told me that it is his favorite card, because it can prolong the game for him to kill the opponent. He had a red hand-sized imprint mark on his face for a few days after that
Gcrudaplaneswalker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Couldn't they come up with different art? They already have this in Beacon of Immortality.
Do not play cards like this. Stop printing cards like this. The art is too pretty to be wasted here.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Its a sideboard option against RDW. Instant speed means that you can hold it to end of opponents turn, and make sure your not going to need counter mana or whatever. Casting this will keep you alive long enough for RDW to burn itself out.
gut.gemacht
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I won a Scars tournament with this card. Funny because it is so terrible. I'll never forget you
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In this set I would have rather seen a white card that deals with poison counters and preferably something of better quality than that Leeches card from Homelands.
Infect is actually uniquely bad against that sort of a lifegain deck since it does nothing to prevent the opponent's ascendants becoming 6/6 lifelink flyers for 1 mana at 30 life or him winning when his life hits 40.
I sideboard it for my mono-white standard deck, to use as sort of a soft counter against the super-fast standard mono-red Kuldotha Rebirth, Galvanic Blast decks. Instant speed makes it playable, not main deck of course, but it's very good at taking the bite out of Lightning Bolt and all its myriad progeny.
It's certainly not winning the game, but with some equipped Sunspear Shikari's on the board, and dropping a few Kemba's Skyguards, you can gum up the game until red runs out of steam.
Stop me if my logic is flawed...