Would of gave this card five stars if the name was "Down with the Sickness". Just saying.
lordof1000mimes
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
An interesting card. Were the word nonblack in there, I'd hate it, but as an unconditional kill with proliferate might just be okay.
Tommy9898
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(16 votes)
How to write flavor text for phyrexian cards.
Step 1. Find a familiar (or at least googleable) saying or axiom. Step 2. Replace a key noun in the phrase with the word "Phyrexia" or add "in Phyrexia" to the end. Step 3. ???? (go to lunch maybe?) Step 4. Profit.
Now it's your turn. Find an old saying (this site should help, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_proverbs) and put the word "Phyrexia" in it.
Example: "All things come to those who wait, in Phyrexia."
Amnatto
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would I be considered greedy if I say I think it should either cost one less mana, or be an instant...?
I love the concept, but it just doesn't feel complete... Pretty sure I'm just greedy...
Gelzo
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Opened two of these in Sealed. They really pulled their weight.
Sunyveil
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Amazing in limited, but I'm guessing it's horrible in constructed. Sorcery speed and costs 4 more than Go for the Throat
HolyOrdersX2
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
don't think this will be good in constructed, but in limited this card is crazy. The fact that it can kill artifact creatures and black creatures is really good, even if it is a bit overcosted. The proliferate is just icing for infect players who use this in limited. All things considered, this card is great removal, but at a high cost, however, that doesn't stop it from being good in limited. 3/5
littlebeast
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@sunyveil: 2 + 4 = 5?
SolidSoldier
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have a seething hatred for this card in limited.
...
...5/5 >_>
NecroticNobody
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is quite good in Limited, but mediocre in Constructed. It gets 4/5 because it kept winning games for me.
strigen
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(6 votes)
This flavor text of this card is strikingly similar to that of Fecundity.
Dabir
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Tommy9898 You mean like...
"Phyrexia speaks louder than words."
cause that actually sounds pretty cool. Wow, this really does work!
franconbean
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
A little on the expensive side, but a handy two in one card capable of dealing with a problem and then causing one for your opponent. At least you can target any type of creature with it also >.>
NoobOfLore
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
... It's a kill spell without any conditions, that lets you proliferate. I don't have to remind you how immensely powerful Proliferate can be.
infernox10
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Honestly, I think I might have traded some drawback to make this instant speed.
As is, it's powerful, and a solid card,
But the mana costs/sorcery speed will garuntee that this card is hardly every used over cheaper instant-removal.
That being said, I think this card is quite powerful, especially in a B/U Infect control.
I once had an opponent hit his Core Prowler on his second main phase.
Proliferate and unconditional destruction is powerful,
But I feel like it lacks the "oomph" that potentially could have had.
Mathijsijn
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
@Tommy9898
An apple apple a day keeps the phyrexians away The pen is mightier than the phyrexians Buy the phyrexians and you only cry once the cure is worse then the phyrexians ( That one is pretty cool, actually) Damned if you do, phyrexian if you don't. Yawgmoth cures and the phyrexian takes the fee. If Yawgmoth had wanted phyrexians to fly, he would have given them wings.
Amnesigenic
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
"Ask not what Phyrexia can do for you, but what you can do for Phyrexia." Or alternately, what Phyrexia can do to you. Also... "Once, twice, three times a Phyrexian." "A bird in Phyrexia is worth two anywhere else." "If at first you aren't compleat, try, try again." I'm trying real hard to come up with something about communist phyrexia, maybe something about how poison counters you, but it isn't working.
blurrymadness
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Beware the ides of Phyrexia. Ask a silly question and you'll get Phyrexia. Don't put all your eggs in Phyrexia. Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and in Phyrexia. If you can't stand the heat get out of Phyrexia. Phyrexia has ways of making you talk. Running with the hare, hunting with Phyrexia. If you can't run with the big dogs, you better stay in Phyrexia. A fool's Phyrexia. Faith can move Phyrexia. It's better to give than to receive Phyrexia. No rest for the Phyrexian. Phyrexian! Heal thyself! The wages of sin is Phyrexia. A house divided against itself can stand... in Phyrexia. Do unto others what Phyrexia would do to you. Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.. in Phyrexia. Hell hath no fury like Phyrexia. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread: Phyrexia.
blindthrall
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(5 votes)
In communist Phyrexia, machine build you!
MisterAction
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Once bitten, twice Phyrexian.
Wulfsten
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@strigen, I think this is actually a mirror card to fecundity. The animal dying looks like the skeleton in the art for fecundity. How neat.
syrazemyla
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"The grass is always blacker on the Phyrexia side of the fence." "Never look a gift Phyrexian in the mouth." "The rumors of my compleation have been greatly exaggerated."
Shadoflaam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"You can lead a Phyrexian horse to water, but you can't make it not drink... your soul"
Ty_m7ue
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Ask not what Phyrexia can do for you, ask what Phyrexia will do to you."
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Am I the only one now imagining a Phyrexian version of Bandit Keith from Yu-gi-oh abridged?
"Alas poor Yorick. I knew him...in Phyrexia!" "I'm just like a chameleon. A Phyrexian chameleon!"
Enelysios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One less mana or a cantrip (Though that would be a lot of different effects on one card) would have made this very powerful indeed. As it stands I have been toying with this in my infect deck, but the only time I have found myself prefering it over grim affliction (Also great flavor text and art) has been when I am facing decks that fool around with +1/+1 counters or on splinterfright. I threw in some go for the throat and Doom Blade and found that that mix worked just as well.
CammyWhite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS AND LET IT UP INTO ME GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS YOU MOTHA GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS YOU FUCKA GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS AND THIS IS THE GIFT THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME
....in Phyrexia
Tapir
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"There's no place like Phyrexia." "Phyrexians are not conjurers of cheap tricks!" "If you die in Phyrexia, you die in real life." "When in Phyrexia... infect things?"
Comments (29)
Step 1. Find a familiar (or at least googleable) saying or axiom.
Step 2. Replace a key noun in the phrase with the word "Phyrexia" or add "in Phyrexia" to the end.
Step 3. ???? (go to lunch maybe?)
Step 4. Profit.
Now it's your turn. Find an old saying (this site should help, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/English_proverbs) and put the word "Phyrexia" in it.
Example: "All things come to those who wait, in Phyrexia."
I love the concept, but it just doesn't feel complete... Pretty sure I'm just greedy...
...
...5/5 >_>
"Phyrexia speaks louder than words."
cause that actually sounds pretty cool. Wow, this really does work!
It's a kill spell without any conditions, that lets you proliferate.
I don't have to remind you how immensely powerful Proliferate can be.
As is, it's powerful, and a solid card,
But the mana costs/sorcery speed will garuntee that this card is hardly every used over cheaper instant-removal.
That being said, I think this card is quite powerful, especially in a B/U Infect control.
I once had an opponent hit his Core Prowler on his second main phase.
Proliferate and unconditional destruction is powerful,
But I feel like it lacks the "oomph" that potentially could have had.
An apple apple a day keeps the phyrexians away
The pen is mightier than the phyrexians
Buy the phyrexians and you only cry once
the cure is worse then the phyrexians ( That one is pretty cool, actually)
Damned if you do, phyrexian if you don't.
Yawgmoth cures and the phyrexian takes the fee.
If Yawgmoth had wanted phyrexians to fly, he would have given them wings.
Or alternately, what Phyrexia can do to you. Also...
"Once, twice, three times a Phyrexian."
"A bird in Phyrexia is worth two anywhere else."
"If at first you aren't compleat, try, try again."
I'm trying real hard to come up with something about communist phyrexia, maybe something about how poison counters you, but it isn't working.
Ask a silly question and you'll get Phyrexia.
Don't put all your eggs in Phyrexia.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and in Phyrexia.
If you can't stand the heat get out of Phyrexia.
Phyrexia has ways of making you talk.
Running with the hare, hunting with Phyrexia.
If you can't run with the big dogs, you better stay in Phyrexia.
A fool's Phyrexia.
Faith can move Phyrexia.
It's better to give than to receive Phyrexia.
No rest for the Phyrexian.
Phyrexian! Heal thyself!
The wages of sin is Phyrexia.
A house divided against itself can stand... in Phyrexia.
Do unto others what Phyrexia would do to you.
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.. in Phyrexia.
Hell hath no fury like Phyrexia.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread: Phyrexia.
"Never look a gift Phyrexian in the mouth."
"The rumors of my compleation have been greatly exaggerated."
"Alas poor Yorick. I knew him...in Phyrexia!"
"I'm just like a chameleon. A Phyrexian chameleon!"
GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS
GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS
AND LET IT UP INTO ME
GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS
YOU MOTHA GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS
YOU FUCKA GET UP C'MON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS
AND THIS IS THE GIFT THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME
....in Phyrexia
"Phyrexians are not conjurers of cheap tricks!"
"If you die in Phyrexia, you die in real life."
"When in Phyrexia... infect things?"
Wait...