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Pistus Strike

Multiverse ID: 213744

Pistus Strike

Comments (15)

Gaffy00
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (5 votes)
1 more then Plummet for a poison counter? Yes Please.
Tommy9898
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (6 votes)
Can be maindecked with flight spellbomb.
majinara
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (7 votes)
Too narrow. If I have a poison deck, I don't want to sit around thinking "oh please let them play a flyer so that I can poison them! Please!!!".
Sunyveil
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0) (3 votes)
Total bomb in limited with all the fliers. I'm guessing it's pretty bad in constructed, though.
SolidSoldier
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (5 votes)
Pretty damn good sideboard card at the very least. I know it pegged me a few times in limited matches.
Richard_Hawk
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
it was nice meeting you, baneslayer angel.
count_dorku
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0) (13 votes)
Guaranteed to have the Mirrans...

(shades)

...pistoff.

(YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!)
PrimeSonic
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0) (8 votes)
Pretty nice. Will never see constructed play in Infect decks.
Face it WotC, when you build a mechanic where all your need to win is an unblocked creature and two or three 1 mana pump spells in hand, no one is going to go the slow route of building poison counters.

No one playing Infect plays Proliferate or any of the other odd forms of getting poison counters. It's all "cheap creature, rush, pump, go from 0 to 10 poison counters in a single turn".

Thanks for the Infect Mark. Really. Thanks. After this block I lost a good deal of respect for you as a designer.
Ava_Adore
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I like it, although plummet is better as it is cheaper, this may help you deal that 1 extra bit of poison to your opponent. i would probably pick this in a draft regardless of weather i was going infect or not, although it is pretty hard to not go infect in green if you were drafting this

Flying is pretty common among all color's nowadays (and this card alone has made a few other cards strictly redundant, plummet has made even more redundant)

I give it 3/5 as it isnt amazing
SeiberTross
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
A guy did very well this weekend with this. He used {G}{U} with buff infect. He could use flight spellbomb to make his guys fly & buff with a giant growth, or do it to other creatures for comboing with this card. Gideon Jura players had nightmares about using that 0 ability XD
RedAtrocitus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love the art and its similarity to Plummet mirroring the two card effects similarity.
theis999
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
As a design, this is just so parasitic! that you have to call it a bad design.
MagnaLynx21
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Personally I think this at instant could have a lot more potential in new standard infect sideboards with all the spirits running around in Innistrad. Let's face it, I can imagine the face of a player who's at 9 poison swinging in with Geist of Saint Traft, only to see his angel snipped down by this to cause a surprise loss.
atemu1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Majinara Are you trolling or are you that stupid? That is the very purpose of the sideboard.