Guess they decided they didn't like Sunblast Angel as much as they thought they would. =/ Certainly an upgrade, but probably not playable.
Vividice
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(6 votes)
A nice board sweeper for casual rounds. Outside of casual it's just too slow. An exile or anti-regeneration phrase would have made it an nice alternative to Day of Judgment :(
KikiJikiTiki
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(9 votes)
I hope the rest of the people playing standard dislike this as much as you guys seem to think, because casual players need more cheap sweepers.
The additional 2 is worth the potentially giant monster. As good as Wrath, if not better in some situations.
sarroth
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I agree with KikiJikiTiki, casual needs more sweepers. I'd prefer this in my Commander deck over Wrath of God, even though I'd lose the whole "can't be regenerated" thing.
As for Vividice: Yes, anti-regeneration would be nice, but Wizards proved with Day of Judgment, which costs the exact same as Wrath of God but loses that ability, that they are limited anti-regeneration on cards. It would be nice, but a lot of things would be nice; this card never really had a chance to get it.
Wow, this does not quite feel white to me. Seems like a black spell. Then again, I don't know the lore behind Magic much.
In other words, while quite awesome against almost anything, it seems to me that this would be a particularly epic middle finger to give to those pesky token decks.
Before: a few creatures on your side of the board, a giant army on the other ready to wipe you off the surface of the planet
After: no creatures on the opposing side of the board, a giant lots/lots Horror on yours. Slap an Armored Ascension on that thing and swing for game. Token deck owner will probably burst into tears.
Quickle
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(5 votes)
Once I had 2 Bonehoards out played Phyrexian Rebirth, then next turn I equipped my 2 Bonehoads to my Horror token and swung for the win!
thedarkheathen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Excellent in Draft.
StreamHopper
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(6 votes)
This should have been Black, dammit.
MurphyLaw
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
NOT a White card. This is a Black card in sheep's clothing.
Hate when they do this with the mechanics.
Necrokeryx
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(7 votes)
Oh my god this is so abusable... and I never thought I would see the day where pacifism is once again playable...
This card actually seems very white to me. White is "like a large clock tower composed of many cogs, which are structured to the point that there is no room for divergence or deviation." The only thing that is new to me is that white is being honest with itself. It generally hides its cruelty and destruction behind a facade of righteousness.
infernox10
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(12 votes)
For anybody saying this is a Black card:
Given, it's destruction, and it summons a Horror,
But White has always had mass removal, where Black gets targeted removal.
That's why when Damnation came out, it brought so much excitement.
So, yes, it sounds Black by name and flavor,
But functionally it's very much White.
mflanaga
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(4 votes)
The complete board sweeping function of this card is white, but the 'gathering up of corpses and reconstructing them into a HORROR creature' is most certainly NOT white. Why couldn't they make this 4WB? Or "If black mana was spent, etc..." Would that have been so crazy?
scumbling1
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
"Now if only there was an easy affordable way to give that token haste"
Does anyone know if Phyrexian rebirth destroys exiled or pacified creatures?
land_comment
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
This is AWESOME!!!!!!
This has one me many games (but also lost me many when I play against it).
Smeg
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
@Snottykid
It wipes out all creatures on the battlefield, pacified creatures included but not exiled creatures since they aren't on the battle field. This is pretty much how every wrath effect works.
@mflanaga
The wrath effect is white, the horror token produced is Phyrexian. You need to look at both the colour and the faction it is associated with in this block.
edit: I really like the flavour of this card as well. Mass destruction destroying the Phyrexians, one drop of oil bringing about their rebirth.
bijart_dauth
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
well, wow.
TheSwarm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
In limited? Holy crap. Chances are, if you play this card, you win. It won me every game I played it in limited. I remember the one game my friend played his rebirth and got an 8/8 or something ridiculous, and just to defend myself I had to play mine. It was pretty awesome. Also, I play this in my shape anew deck, it serves a dual purpose, first it sweeps the board in case of infect and other aggro types and allows me to set up my combo.
krauser-gogetthegirl
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
i want a deck built around this and the thropter assembly. hopefully by turn six or seven my opponent will have some creatures out besides my five thropters. then the turn u rebirth everything, play the thropter again.
creepycrawler
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(4 votes)
This is very white. It's all about togetherness. :
"The Flesh Singularity: The Sect of Total Unity
One sect of the Orthodoxy is founded on the ideal of the rejection of the selfish ego and the total unification of all things. Their twisted, almost naïve conception of the perfect community is the elimination of all barriers between individuals. The Phyrexian tendency toward literalism takes this to a frightening extreme: Phyrexians of this sect seek to literally connect all beings to one another and to become a single, vast, organic-and-metal organism, the end-state of which they call, among other names, the Flesh Singularity. (The term "flesh" here means both organic and inorganic matter; like most Phyrexians, they don't distinguish between living and dead things as potential materials for their form of life.) When all life is literally attached to all other life—by sutured skin, riveted metal, woven fur, whatever—only then will true, perfect unity be achieved."
If you would like to know more about the Machine Orthodoxy and it's various sects, please visit the website at: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/137. If you would like to join the Flesh Singularity, or to find out where you can acquire large quantities of thread, please contact The Machine Orthodoxy Supply Store at -
bkarcher42
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I have ran this with Awakening Zone several times, and the horror token has won me the game. Most people I know just look at the mana cost, and don't realize that the extra gives you immediate board advantage.
@Snottykid: Pacified, but not exiled creatures are destroyed.
CountDrake
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So if a creature is regenerated, it is technically destroyed and therefore counts toward the token's strength, right? And a creature with an enchantment with totem armor? No official rulings up yet.
Torturing101
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@countdrake:
If you look at the wording of regeneration, it says, "The next time this creature would be destroyed, it isn't." Therefore, it never was destroyed, so it doesn't add to the total. Same with totem armor. Hope that helps.
jrsteams1175
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Can this card be destroyed by a card that destroys artifacts?
JaxsonBateman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Unfortunately, not very playable in standard due to the extremely fast nature of the faster decks where you'd actually need more sweepers than Day of Judgment - Phyrexian Rebirth comes out far too slowly for mainstream play, and unlike its 'predecessor' Martial Coup, you aren't even guaranteed much power after the fact (Martial Coup was a guaranteed 5 power if you board swept).
Potential sideboard card for metas with lots of creature based decks, in Wx decks that can hold on until they hit 6 mana (and aren't already top heavy with titans), but this won't see much play.
Still, not bad for casual, and great in multiplayer. Still, in casual I'd prefer Austere Command for my 6 mana sweeper. ^^
All for one, and one for all. White as white can be.
connorvore93
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
i made a deck using this card and fresh meat. it is a multi player based deck, so you sit there and gather cheap tokens with cards like skittering invasion and one- dozen eyes while your wall of meat protects you. when your ready, it will cost a total of 10 mana, through your lands, eldrazi spawns, and other ramps, but you will have an X/X on the battle field with X 3/3s. on average my X is about 20-40 on a 3-4 player game. ---just an idea, have fun!
Radagast
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Solid in Commander. Another board-wipe is always welcome, and you'll probably get a huge token out of it, too.
MrTomothy
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(11 votes)
Easily the best "That's what she said" moment in MtG.
Why play Day of Judgement over this? Only 2 Extra Mana for a Massive Horror Token that more then makes up for that 2 Mana and is immune to Go for the Throat. 5/5
Ulixes_Pyr
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This card should have been black/white.
Enemy_Tricolor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Funny against those confounded token swarms that seem to be all the rage right now.
Ghostmyth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
It is partially a black card. It's white black.
This is why:
Although White does care about mass removal, it's because they want balance. White doesn't care how many things die as long as the end result is equality. Black, however, loves death. They'd thrive on creatures dieing. They would count it and recount it, feeling a sense of satisfaction for being able to kill so much.
I'm thinking nothing should be changed on the cost, but the token granted should have been black, since that creates an inequality and inequality isn't white. Is that fair?
"Thanks for destroying my army of tokens-- enjoy your 1/1"
Fireballmage
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The imbalanced effect seems black... But then you realize that the flavor perfectly fits White Phyrexia's style. Their goal is to unite all of Phyrexia both physically and spiritually; by destroying all creatures and combining their corpses into one super-being, this card is "uniting the flesh".
BongRipper420
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like this card. It would seem decks with many equipments can get the most mileage out of this card.
This card would be significantly more playable (and very effective) if the token had some form of evasion or ability to go along with it. Whether it be haste, lifelink, flying, trample, or even infect. Just something.
have this in a deck that has elbrus, and BOOM, eveery one hates u
SarcasmElemental
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This card could be purple and I still wouldn't complain
Boakes2047
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Vividice - How is this card too slow? 6 mana to wipe the field, gain board control and gain potential huge card advantage? playing this turn 6 in the right deck is almost the perfect timing. It throws off your opponent cause now they don't have creatures, and you have a a creature which could possibly be very big.
This does what Day of Judgement doesn't do, it gives you board control. 4.5/5
Your complaining that this card is not more powerful??? Really??? You just wiped the field and recovered at the same time... at 6 mana this wins games.
wholelottalove
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I don't know, this card just seems a bit off color. Phyrexia with white? The token does make flavor sense but the color just doesn't do it for me.
DustD
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This just got better with the Populate mechanic in RTR. I'm making a deck around it.
Emperorerror
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@wholelottalove: Are you high, or just an idiot? Phyrexians use all colors.
Zeofar
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Aiee! It's the Night of the Living Boardwipe! Oh, the horror!"
Villainous1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
T3: Heartbeat of Spring, let your opponents drop their whole hand's worth of creatures. T4: Phyrexian Rebirth. SWIPE!
Especially fun and evil in multiplayer...
EamonnMR
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use the token as your populate target.
Dragonshoredreamz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is fantastic! Especially if you're using Bonehoard in conjunction with it. Why not throw Armored Ascension onto the germ token and then use the Equipment on something else when you get it out.
This card really does Phyrexia and White justice. Representing both very well.
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love the flavour and the art. Everybody dies only to become part of the giant, skeletal, monster. 5/5
ZaisConsultant
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
One of my favorite tokens to populate.
CogMonocle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Reading these comments shows me how much people don't understand the color pie. This belongs in black as much as it belongs in red.
Drewskithelegend
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Natural Affinity+this... I'm assuming having creature tokens up in the double digits in p/t while your opponent controls no creatures OR lands is going to incite butthurt... I like butthurt....
Oh and both of those cards are selesnya colors, Play Growing ranks to watch the butthurt grow every turn. Trolololololololol.
Comments (59)
As for Vividice: Yes, anti-regeneration would be nice, but Wizards proved with Day of Judgment, which costs the exact same as Wrath of God but loses that ability, that they are limited anti-regeneration on cards. It would be nice, but a lot of things would be nice; this card never really had a chance to get it.
In other words, while quite awesome against almost anything, it seems to me that this would be a particularly epic middle finger to give to those pesky token decks.
Before: a few creatures on your side of the board, a giant army on the other ready to wipe you off the surface of the planet
After: no creatures on the opposing side of the board, a giant lots/lots Horror on yours. Slap an Armored Ascension on that thing and swing for game. Token deck owner will probably burst into tears.
Hate when they do this with the mechanics.
This card actually seems very white to me. White is "like a large clock tower composed of many cogs, which are structured to the point that there is no room for divergence or deviation." The only thing that is new to me is that white is being honest with itself. It generally hides its cruelty and destruction behind a facade of righteousness.
Given, it's destruction, and it summons a Horror,
But White has always had mass removal, where Black gets targeted removal.
That's why when Damnation came out, it brought so much excitement.
So, yes, it sounds Black by name and flavor,
But functionally it's very much White.
Kill your own Anger with it.
This is AWESOME!!!!!!
This has one me many games (but also lost me many when I play against it).
It wipes out all creatures on the battlefield, pacified creatures included but not exiled creatures since they aren't on the battle field. This is pretty much how every wrath effect works.
@mflanaga
The wrath effect is white, the horror token produced is Phyrexian. You need to look at both the colour and the faction it is associated with in this block.
edit: I really like the flavour of this card as well. Mass destruction destroying the Phyrexians, one drop of oil bringing about their rebirth.
"The Flesh Singularity: The Sect of Total Unity
One sect of the Orthodoxy is founded on the ideal of the rejection of the selfish ego and the total unification of all things. Their twisted, almost naïve conception of the perfect community is the elimination of all barriers between individuals. The Phyrexian tendency toward literalism takes this to a frightening extreme: Phyrexians of this sect seek to literally connect all beings to one another and to become a single, vast, organic-and-metal organism, the end-state of which they call, among other names, the Flesh Singularity. (The term "flesh" here means both organic and inorganic matter; like most Phyrexians, they don't distinguish between living and dead things as potential materials for their form of life.) When all life is literally attached to all other life—by sutured skin, riveted metal, woven fur, whatever—only then will true, perfect unity be achieved."
If you would like to know more about the Machine Orthodoxy and it's various sects, please visit the website at: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/137. If you would like to join the Flesh Singularity, or to find out where you can acquire large quantities of thread, please contact The Machine Orthodoxy Supply Store at -
@Snottykid: Pacified, but not exiled creatures are destroyed.
If you look at the wording of regeneration, it says, "The next time this creature would be destroyed, it isn't." Therefore, it never was destroyed, so it doesn't add to the total. Same with totem armor. Hope that helps.
Potential sideboard card for metas with lots of creature based decks, in Wx decks that can hold on until they hit 6 mana (and aren't already top heavy with titans), but this won't see much play.
Still, not bad for casual, and great in multiplayer. Still, in casual I'd prefer Austere Command for my 6 mana sweeper. ^^
Only 2 Extra Mana for a Massive Horror Token that more then makes up for that 2 Mana and is immune to Go for the Throat. 5/5
This is why:
Although White does care about mass removal, it's because they want balance. White doesn't care how many things die as long as the end result is equality. Black, however, loves death. They'd thrive on creatures dieing. They would count it and recount it, feeling a sense of satisfaction for being able to kill so much.
I'm thinking nothing should be changed on the cost, but the token granted should have been black, since that creates an inequality and inequality isn't white. Is that fair?
"Thanks for destroying my army of tokens-- enjoy your 1/1"
This card would be significantly more playable (and very effective) if the token had some form of evasion or ability to go along with it. Whether it be haste, lifelink, flying, trample, or even infect. Just something.
I guess there's always Akroma's Memorial.
This does what Day of Judgement doesn't do, it gives you board control. 4.5/5
T4: Phyrexian Rebirth. SWIPE!
Especially fun and evil in multiplayer...
This card really does Phyrexia and White justice. Representing both very well.
I like butthurt....
Oh and both of those cards are selesnya colors, Play Growing ranks to watch the butthurt grow every turn.
Trolololololololol.