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Cackling Fiend

Multiverse ID: 21168

Cackling Fiend

Comments (8)

ratchet1215
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0) (3 votes)
Liliana's Specter seems just a little better than this guy.
infernox10
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (9 votes)
I know I'm putting myself out for some sort of nerd-hate,
But did anybody think of Ryuk from Death Note when they saw this guy's face?
scumbling1
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0) (3 votes)
"Liliana's Specter seems just a little better than this guy"

Sure it does. But for twelve years, this was the only creature with an 'enters play' ability that made each opponent discard a card. We had to make due recurring this guy endlessly.
SGLinkmaster
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Awesome artwork.
Drewsel
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
This is totally me playing Magic.
Alsebra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (2 votes)
But...but scumbling1, everyone knows that you have to compare cards from past sets with ones from current sets to get an even comparison!
NeoKoda
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0) (2 votes)
This card's art scares me and makes me laugh at the same time. I feel like it should have a clause stating that "Rather than pay this card's mana cost, you may make the face on the art."
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
even if you have 2 opponents, this isn't good enough to me.

even if you're playing with an ally in 2-HG, this doesn't YET seem good enough to me.

but you know, discarding a card is discarding a card. not the best but far from the worst thing to be doing. I would absolutely try sliding this in to a meant-for-5-players deck.

Pretty sure 5 is just the best number of people to play Magic. More than than, and you have to split up into duels. (I don't exactly like Draft very much. I like mind games, but I prefer the mind games of everyone playing the same duel to Drafting mind games.)

Domain is a good mechanic when you have all 5 colors, most multiplayer cards are Good-Very Fine at 5 players. 3 isn't *quite* enough and if you can get 4 players you really want to start looking for a 5th, unless you're two couples way too nerdy to play bridge >.< 4-colored Commander decks might as well be 5 and have done with it.

With a 20-point life total, 3 is seen as the 'acceptable' rate of damage for a win-con card, and 4 or 5 look downright AWESOME. (2 power creatures and 2 damage spells are fine to start out with, but they're just never going to be your favorites unless they do something extra and stupid like draw a zillion cards.)

4 or 5 is the number you ALWAYS want to see in Magic, for just about everything. Even Planeswalker Mana Costs ^_^