Cheap, efficient monoblack removal that can nail black creatures. I Love it. Often better than doom blade in standard, almost always in extended and legacy.
Troutz
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
Meta-game defining. Also, has a really awesome name and really creepy/cool art.
HairlessThoctar
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(5 votes)
HELLS YEAH!
This is almost certainly the best black targeted removal ever.
Swiftgamer18
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(11 votes)
Abyssal Persecutor just got a whole hell of a lot sexier. Love the art as well, kind of seems like it came from Cold Snap.
faisjdas
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(28 votes)
Even though the acronym doesn't match, I mentally refer to this card as "GTFO"
a_mano
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this and nature's claim, all the removal my infect deck needs...
The Trail of Tears for outclassed black removal. *sniff*
Hayw00d0909
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ordering a playset of these bad boys when I get the cash. Doom Blade, we had some good times!
Shiizu
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Bit cheap for black removal that can hit black creatures. At least it doesn't totally make terror completely obsolete.
Vividice
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
In most cases Doom Blade 5-8. Better vs other Black Decks worse vs. Artifact heavy Decks (Tempered Steel.dec etc.)
metalevolence
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(15 votes)
Stupidest flavor ever. And I will be playing four
qwerty721
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Get. A. Playset. In. Foil.
SocialExperiment
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Doomblade is about to disappear from a lot of sideboards and maindecks.
Well, "nonartifact" might be a weakness in Mirrodin, but I'd still rather have this than Doom Blade in almost all of the matchups I'm likely to be in. Guess it depends on the metagame where you play.
over rated to be honest but still amazing card but it's on par with doom blade fact is artifact decks have always been popular in every format (except standard but right now standard is artifact heavy)
Magnor_Criol
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I do find it kinda funny how at the prerelease, for the most part the only people playing black decks will be the Phyrexian players...who won't get this card.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(7 votes)
STAPLE. Art, Flavor, Name, What It Does lol 5/5
bri_boomer
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
If this doesn't deserve a 5/5 I don't know what is :/
Sunyveil
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
To me, this isn't any scarier than Doom Blade, since I never play black. But Doom Blade is a really scary card, so this will definitely see play.
Gezus82
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
just so ur like, not even tempted to give them Wurmcoil babies
RedCravat
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(25 votes)
Name isn't impressive. Being a planeswallker and casting "Doom Blade!" is way more flavorful and casting... "Go for the Throat?"
SolidSoldier
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Definitely drool-worthy. just make sure you side in those Doom Blades when you're going against an artifact deck.
I just got some packs!!! Got a hero of oxid ridge, cryptoplasm, sangromancer, titan forge, and foil slag storm! But, i also got a foil Go for the Throat! Why am I more excited about this card than any of the others?? haha 5/5 waaaay good! I'm just glad I'm playing Magic during this cards release because this card is going to be the next PtE or StP. It's abbreviation will be GftT. . . Not as glamorous as the others, but friggin awesome!!
Names_Suck
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
A little overrated I'd say. Liquimetal Coating makes this card dead weight on top of many top creatures being artifacts.
Not bad by any means, but overrated at 4.8. Should be roughly equal to Doom Blade.
brockdjwest
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(31 votes)
Because artifacts don't have throats.
jamiepm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ EvilCleavage hahaha that would make this a 'gift' right?
Feralsymphony
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Seriously Wizards? You couldn't think of a batter name for this card? How about Murder? Cripple? Bleed? Blood Drain? But no, you put aside all those flavorful names in favor of one as bad of this. I am disappointed in you.
franconbean
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Although they Ripped off a WoW Hunter pet ability, whats not to like? a few of these and a few doomblades and you can deal with just about anything that isn't indestructible.
PhyrexianAdvocate
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I see!
They took Terror and chopped it in half, no you can run 12.
Sudden Death is still my favorite removal in the game though.
SleetFox
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(10 votes)
Terror is survived by black creatures and artifacts. Doom Blade is survived by black creatures and regenerators. Go for the Throat is survived by artifacts and regenerators.
The cycle is complete.
Between black creatures, artifacts and regenerators, black creatures are the most common, so this is definitely the best of the three. That said, I will never want to put four of these in a deck unless I have at least two Doom Blades. I'll play this over Doom Blade, but I'll still split when I can. I'm thinking 1/0, 1/1, 2/1, 3/1, 3/2, 4/2, 4/3, 4/4 for my progression of Go for the Throat/Doom Blade from 1 to 8 copies. Grasp of Darkness probably would go in there too if the deck is black enough, of course.
Fert12334
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In a set with alot of artifacts, it is overrated. Although it is really good for an uncommon.
4/5
God_Of_The_Smurfs
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(23 votes)
It's like someone said...
Man 1 "Hmmm... Is it just me, or is terror not that good?"
Man 2 "Yeah, you're right. What if we took away the "artifact" bit?" We could call it doom blade!"
Man 1 "That's a good idea! Lets do it!"
Man 2 "What about the other half? The non-black part?"
Man 1 "Nah, if we took that away, it'd be way to good."
Man 2 leaps at him and tears out his esophagus.
"I think I'll call it... Go for the throat."
luxma
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
the thing is, doom blade is common
rufio_massacre
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(5 votes)
@ RedCravat
you foolish jy'aahn knockin da piece on pull da card like "i'ma get ya throat son" den scrap the jobie to the yard. since you askin' me i'm thinkin big hoss run savage on dude his reaction you know like "sheeeeeeyizzz" clay davis style j'yeard?
DeathDark
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
More kill-spells? For 2?
I'll take yes.
Lyoncet
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Shoot, DacenOctavio points out that Mycosynth Lattice makes Emrakul, the Aeons Torn an illegal target. Fortunately, there are still ways to cast this spell on him, but they're clunkier. This will become a new mission of mine, not necessarily because it's the best most practical way to take him out, but because, well… you just ripped the throat out of a freaking god with your teeth.
Enchantment_Removal
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Go for the Throat!! GO FOR THE THROAT!!!
G-F-T-T N00b!!!
.
Bandswithother
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Fools, only the most powerful magic can destroy Emrakul. That or Ersatz Gnomes.
Though it is very likely that Emrakul will be an illegal target as the spell is being cast, rather than when the spell resolves. So you may have to work around it by targeting an Inktreader Nephilim, and then making GTFO colorless. (this ofcourse turns GTFO into a 2 cmc Damnation)
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
"Well Sangromancer, looks like we're on the same side this time."
"Yep."
"Thing is, I still don't quite trust you yet."
"Oh, no, you can totally trust me, we'll team up and beat those Phyrexians all right."
"...Okay, let's go." *turns back*
"Haha psyche I'm going to yoink all your blood anyway."
not as good as unmake power leek. seriously I fell like going to every new card that there is a better version of printed in the past and saying there is a power leek because that's what the complainers about the new set do.
Selez
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Okay... When I first saw this I thought that it was for-all-effects-and-purposes strictly better than Doom Blade. And, at least in a lot of causal circles, it is. More people run black than run artifacts, so go nuts. But I also feel like I should caution those who are eating this up all too eagerly. It simply isn't strictly better than Doom Blade in constructed. In fact, catching your opponent off guard by running Doom Blade instead is probably a better plan. Wurmcoil Engine is being run more heavily because of this card. Punish the decks that are playing around this removal spell with unpredictability.
dberry02
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I finally feel that this card has balanced out black removal. I had always felt it strange that black can't kill other black creatures even though you're slaughtering your own creatures left and right.
ZeroSheep
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
MACGRUBER!!!
gnilleps
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
take that, not wurmcoil!
SeiberTross
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If this is causing ripples in your casual magic troupe, may I suggest Neurok Transmuter
mflanaga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Please Wizards, give your spells intelligent sounding names. Already some good recommendations here. Gouge, Murder, Murderous Gouge, Fatal Laceration, anything other than "Go for the Throat." Might as well have named Assault Strobe "Swing Twice So Fast it Happens at Once." If you can't think of good names have a poll and ask your loyal fans for goodness sake. Hire the guy who recommended "Murder" - imagine seeing a card named Murder...
bfugitive
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ChumleyX Yes.
I have a serious problem with this card. It warps the color pie. I'm not saying that Black doesn't destroy creatures, I'm saying that black creatures don't get spot removed. Look at Abyssal Persecutor, for example. Even he was a massive beatstick with THE drawback (didn't stop him from being really good). Black creatures have alway been designed to be MASSIVELY overcosted because of things like Terror and Doom Blade. Now what?
StealthShadow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not as easy to find as Doom Blade was, but its so wonderful.
Zaneshift
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I believe someone thought they were naming an unhinged card. Or they lost a bet.
Completely ridiculous.
Absolutely senseless.
I must have four, just for the reactions.
PhyrexianFryCook
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Too bad Rend Flesh was taken in Kamigawa. Would have been a perfect name for this.
The flavor text, art, the name... they're trying to get goth chicks to play aren't they?
Vinifera7
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(4 votes)
What a dorky name this has.
redsoxftw
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
LOL this card is supposedly Mirran... yet the artwork clearly depicts a Mirran's throat at risk...
By the way, I think this is better than doom blade, it keeps black in check.
GruesomeGoo
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Not very good in Standard as of now, but this card seems better then Doom Blade in most other scenarios...you see black creatures way more then artifact creatures most of the time. Also, you could always sideboard this or Doomblade. What's that? Running an artifact deck? Lemme swap these puppies for something else, etc.
blurrymadness
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Hm.. liquimetal coating seems to have even more reason to be in a deck..
AndreidaGiant
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(3 votes)
i do believe that this card is overrated.... not better then doom blade, however still a beastly card
ErikLauer
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(33 votes)
Erik's Random card 6/21/2011 This was in the design file, priced at 2B.
I thought it would make Standard more fun at 1B. This block has a lot of artifact creatures. However they were at a competitive disadvantage compared with Black creatures because of Doom Blade. Pricing this card at 1B put it on par with Doom Blade, and helped put artifact creatures on par with black creatures.
True_Smog
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
At last ,some good main deck removal for black, really nice.
applecorn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
how do we make up 7 pages of comments, yet no one mentions Dark Banishing?
Asmodi0000
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This SHOULD have cost 2B, and perhaps gave you 3 life to help make it more comparable to doom blade. The way it is now, it's superior to doom blade, which was already an excellent card, and pushes artifact creatures even further up a slope that I don't think they should be ascending.
Of course, I'm part of a minority, since it seems that most people are rather pleased with artifact creatures being so widespread and useable.
I don't know, I guess I just never liked robot-ish creatures.
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
cards like this have the biggest effect on the game. I know others will disagree, but I think it would be ok if they made removal a little more expensive.
JFM2796
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My Master of Etherium mocks your pathetic attempts to rid its god-like presence off the board.
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Black creatures are just not powerful enough for this to be good in an artifact block. It often sits in my hand not unlike Terror. However, in standard, it gets a little better, nuking Vampire Nighthawk, Grave Titan, and uh. . . What else is black and really needs to die? Phyrexian Obliterator? Pff, no one plays that. Just run Dismember, guys.
Paleopaladin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
4 of in at least the sideboards of any Modern format deck that has any black in it. You heard it here first!
Tempted_Johnny
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Kills titans and can't be redirected to Spellskite. Solid mainboard card.
NoobOfLore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have to say that that is some pretty uninspiring card-naming there. It doesn't even sound like a spell. It sounds like a command you would give a minion. In fact, I wish they had printed this as an Archenemy card so the name would have already been taken by now.
Gcrudaplaneswalker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This card probably got its idea from Twilight I mean come on seriously!!! However, I still love it. 5/5
Shadoflaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The person below me is close to the whole "Gay Twilight" thing, but got the genders mixed up.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome card. I'm just not sure why it's Mirran. Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Oh well, I'm not complaining.
Destroy2777
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Of 6344 creatures, without consideration of abilities, only 439 creatures are immune to this. It one shots (again, abilities ignored) 5905 creatures, or 93.0801% of all creatures in the game... for two mana! Due to regen, hexproof/shroud, protection from colors, and indestructibility, that number would probably be lowered to about 80-85 percent, but it's power for destruction is undeniable.
AvatarofBro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5/5 simply because it is involved with a funny comic-store anecdote. My friends were sitting down for some Tournament-style fun, when a large, intimidating man in his twenties sits down across from us and challenges us to a match. He ran four of these, and every time he'd play one, he'd just slap the target creature with the card and say "go fir da troat." Many lulz were had.
MasterOfBearLore
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
@RedCravat
True, but a wizard singlehandedly ripping out the throats of some Grizzly Bears seems a tad more epic than zapping them with a weird energy ray thingy.
How about ridding that colorless crap and making our "doom blades" even better?
Not Victim.. It sux, something better.
TheWrathofShane
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@Ragamander While this flavor does suggest slitting ones throat, its a magic that snuffs out the signature of life. Artifacts do not have that biological signature, so it makes sense. As for killing a non artifact lifeless wall, well that is a breach in flavor but oh well.
pedrodyl
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Go for the Deep Throat.
Goatllama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
yes Yes YES!!! This is wonderful removal, indeed.
Mootaco
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@RedCravat: The "casting" function isn't necessarily actual casting. Do you conjure a Goblin Grenade or do you instruct your mooks to fasten explosives onto Mr. Goblin Arsonist? Does one summon or innitiate a Quest for Pure Flame?
Shiny_Espeon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Not going to lie, I prefer Doom Blade over this. Not because "OMG Go for the Throat is too good," but that I feel that it is better in many decks and formats then this. First, I never play mono black, (Because it is a bad deck IMO) so I have other colors to deal with black creatures. Second, most of the cards I need to use early spot removal on aren't black since black creatures are traditionally higher curved, in which I can find an alternate way to kill them, or have some way of getting value from death that makes them resilient to removal. Artifact creatures like Steel Overseer, on the other hand, are threats that I must immediately deal with, which means that I really need my spot removal to work.
IDK, so many people just seem to think that this card is automatically better then Doom Blade when it is highly situational. If you find that Black creatures are more worthy of your spot removal then Artifacts, then I guess this is better. I find that the opposite is true, so I run Doom Blade over this. Granted, I only have 1 doom blade in my deck since I made it singleton and I only have room for one, so if I needed a second I would likely run this.
Ahh, good old Go for the Scrote. One of the best kill spells out there.
Emperorerror
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Go for the ***?
USMCbudder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fantastic card, I run 4 of these. Perfect for getting rid of the opponents big nastys. I save these untill my opponent brings one out.
Meathim
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Carpe Jugulum.
(I assume someone already said that, if not SHAME ON YOU)
EGarrett01
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would've been perfect if it had cost BB.
azure_drake222222
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Gopher the throat.
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Doom Blade is generally better because no one plays mono black and you can side it out if they play a lot of black. If people play artifacts, they generally play lots of them.
Vastator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
*Sigh* I would still have this andDoom Blade in my deck just to be perfectly safe
What I love most about this is that it only costs 2 mana and it destroys everything except for artifact.
Jitteryowl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Lifegainwithbite Yeah, but how prevalent is artifact in the meta?
Comments (96)
This is almost certainly the best black targeted removal ever.
The Trail of Tears for outclassed black removal. *sniff*
Better vs other Black Decks worse vs. Artifact heavy Decks (Tempered Steel.dec etc.)
A.
Playset.
In.
Foil.
Well, "nonartifact" might be a weakness in Mirrodin, but I'd still rather have this than Doom Blade in almost all of the matchups I'm likely to be in. Guess it depends on the metagame where you play.
Not bad by any means, but overrated at 4.8. Should be roughly equal to Doom Blade.
hahaha that would make this a 'gift' right?
They took Terror and chopped it in half, no you can run 12.
Sudden Death is still my favorite removal in the game though.
Doom Blade is survived by black creatures and regenerators.
Go for the Throat is survived by artifacts and regenerators.
The cycle is complete.
Between black creatures, artifacts and regenerators, black creatures are the most common, so this is definitely the best of the three. That said, I will never want to put four of these in a deck unless I have at least two Doom Blades. I'll play this over Doom Blade, but I'll still split when I can. I'm thinking 1/0, 1/1, 2/1, 3/1, 3/2, 4/2, 4/3, 4/4 for my progression of Go for the Throat/Doom Blade from 1 to 8 copies. Grasp of Darkness probably would go in there too if the deck is black enough, of course.
Although it is really good for an uncommon.
4/5
Man 1 "Hmmm... Is it just me, or is terror not that good?"
Man 2 "Yeah, you're right. What if we took away the "artifact" bit?" We could call it doom blade!"
Man 1 "That's a good idea! Lets do it!"
Man 2 "What about the other half? The non-black part?"
Man 1 "Nah, if we took that away, it'd be way to good."
Man 2 leaps at him and tears out his esophagus.
"I think I'll call it... Go for the throat."
you foolish jy'aahn knockin da piece on pull da card like "i'ma get ya throat son" den scrap the jobie to the yard. since you askin' me i'm thinkin big hoss run savage on dude his reaction you know like "sheeeeeeyizzz" clay davis style j'yeard?
I'll take yes.
G-F-T-T N00b!!!
.
Though it is very likely that Emrakul will be an illegal target as the spell is being cast, rather than when the spell resolves. So you may have to work around it by targeting an Inktreader Nephilim, and then making GTFO colorless. (this ofcourse turns GTFO into a 2 cmc Damnation)
"Yep."
"Thing is, I still don't quite trust you yet."
"Oh, no, you can totally trust me, we'll team up and beat those Phyrexians all right."
"...Okay, let's go." *turns back*
"Haha psyche I'm going to yoink all your blood anyway."
seriously I fell like going to every new card that there is a better version of printed in the past and saying there is a power leek because that's what the complainers about the new set do.
I have a serious problem with this card. It warps the color pie. I'm not saying that Black doesn't destroy creatures, I'm saying that black creatures don't get spot removed. Look at Abyssal Persecutor, for example. Even he was a massive beatstick with THE drawback (didn't stop him from being really good). Black creatures have alway been designed to be MASSIVELY overcosted because of things like Terror and Doom Blade. Now what?
Completely ridiculous.
Absolutely senseless.
I must have four, just for the reactions.
By the way, I think this is better than doom blade, it keeps black in check.
Also, you could always sideboard this or Doomblade. What's that? Running an artifact deck? Lemme swap these puppies for something else, etc.
This was in the design file, priced at 2B.
I thought it would make Standard more fun at 1B. This block has a lot of artifact creatures. However they were at a competitive disadvantage compared with Black creatures because of Doom Blade. Pricing this card at 1B put it on par with Doom Blade, and helped put artifact creatures on par with black creatures.
Of course, I'm part of a minority, since it seems that most people are rather pleased with artifact creatures being so widespread and useable.
I don't know, I guess I just never liked robot-ish creatures.
It doesn't even sound like a spell. It sounds like a command you would give a minion.
In fact, I wish they had printed this as an Archenemy card so the name would have already been taken by now.
My friends were sitting down for some Tournament-style fun, when a large, intimidating man in his twenties sits down across from us and challenges us to a match.
He ran four of these, and every time he'd play one, he'd just slap the target creature with the card and say "go fir da troat."
Many lulz were had.
True, but a wizard singlehandedly ripping out the throats of some Grizzly Bears seems a tad more epic than zapping them with a weird energy ray thingy.
Not Victim.. It sux, something better.
While this flavor does suggest slitting ones throat, its a magic that snuffs out the signature of life. Artifacts do not have that biological signature, so it makes sense. As for killing a non artifact lifeless wall, well that is a breach in flavor but oh well.
IDK, so many people just seem to think that this card is automatically better then Doom Blade when it is highly situational. If you find that Black creatures are more worthy of your spot removal then Artifacts, then I guess this is better. I find that the opposite is true, so I run Doom Blade over this. Granted, I only have 1 doom blade in my deck since I made it singleton and I only have room for one, so if I needed a second I would likely run this.
(I assume someone already said that, if not SHAME ON YOU)
What I love most about this is that it only costs 2 mana and it destroys everything except for artifact.
Yeah, but how prevalent is artifact in the meta?
-Swag_Crow