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Dark Favor

Multiverse ID: 220293

Dark Favor

Comments (19)

Cyberium
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (5 votes)
How about Sinister Strength?
auriscope
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
Seems like a damn good clock on Tormented Soul.
scumbling1
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0) (9 votes)
Unholy Strength was already bad. Adding one more power to it's bonus at the cost of one mana and one life seems like a trip downhill from that already low point.
A0602
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Can I ask you for a favor?
Richard_Hawk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0) (1 vote)
That was not a favor at all.
Tommy9898
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0) (4 votes)
Favor as in "favorite" or "favoritism". Words can have multiple meanings, you dinks.
Nayban
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0) (4 votes)
Ran this with Aven Fleetwing in Pre-release today. A 2/2 flyer with Hexproof and +3/+2? Why thank you.
HuntedWumpusMustDie
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0) (1 vote)
I Would like even more if you could pay more life to get it back into your hand. Hooray for black masochism!
Pheso
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Straight upside with the Scars block still legal.

Turn 1 -> Swamp, Vault Skirge
Turn 2 -> Swamp, Dark Favor, Swing for 4 Lifelink

I am SO making Black Artifacts.
ObsceneMartyr
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
A welcome addition to a poison deck already short a giant growth, vinse of vastwood, ground swell and primal bellow. It's good to know that black can pull a little of it's own weight around here.
ZEvilMustache
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can I get some complaining about the art in here? Enough about how the card "plays," already.
sincleanser
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0) (2 votes)
Unholy Strength > This Poser
SarpNasty
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
This on a turn 1 Glistener Elf or a Turn 2 Blighted Agent is killer. Yeah, that's right, I play BUG infect...I have no friends :(
Secksee
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not as good as Sinister Strength.
Mike-C
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
By focussing ALL his energy towards his belly, he was able to sit down and deliver a very brown, very dark favor... It went SPLASH.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
@JFM2796
Did you just say "definitely first pick in draft" when talking about this card? Try passing it. It actually wheels quite often, and you get to take a nice creature or something if the aura deck doesn't work out. You don't always get hexproof guys to make it worth your time.
Pelusosa
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I honestly don't understand why this card is rated so low. Granted, an extra +1/+0 might not seem worthy of costing an extra mana and a loss of one life over unholy strength, but I never actually found that unholy strength packed enough of a punch for me to consider it worthy of taking up card space in a deck.

Sinister strength is surely superior to this, but this is a welcome substitute in my opinion, turning any weenie into a formidable opponent for most creatures.
LordOfTheFlies87
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pretty solid. Hurts in draft.