Fairly insane card. I like how it's not very specific as to what the act is. It could have been excessive fapping leading to death for all we know. 4/5
Guest1381794618
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Hmmm. I wonder If this will see play. A median cost of 5 CMC ish is certainly appealing, and very splashable mana cost. The question I have though is what kind of deck is going to want to use it.
Outside of standard though, consider Repercussion. KaBOOOM.
Lyoncet
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Hard to tell how well this one's going to perform once the meta settles down, but based on the number of token-creating effects, it may be downright playable. Slagstorm's a lot scarier when it costs {R} and could kill a Titan twice over (more, actually).
At the very least, it's probably the most consistent EDH board wipe Red will ever see.
rinoh20
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(7 votes)
when screwed, hit the panic button.
pedrodyl
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
hooray for red board wipes! In order for this to be somewhat equivalent to Day of Judgment there needs to be 5 creatures on the battlefield. very doable. and more than that is just nice.
.Blaze.
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(9 votes)
Now we just need some good creatures with protection from red, and the shenanigans can begin.
Gabriel422
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I like the card, since you could play some creatures on your own to get a cheap Wrath effect in red. Play with something with pro-red, for example, or something that likes to die.
Though, this card has one of the most jarring flavor texts of all times. When was death a sanctuary from anything, to begin with? Add in the fact that lots of things from this set can come back (so the graveyard is indeed a safe place to hide scary things, but only in Innistrad specifically), we have a line of flavor text that I just wish wasn't there.
SwordOfKaldra
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Yes! A red board wipe that doesn't destroy lands! Looks like they're trying to make red better for EDH, at least as a support color. Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind is happy.
Asmodi0000
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(8 votes)
Quick math-
0 creatures on the field- 9 mana - Why are you casting this? 1 creature on the field- 8 mana- You must hate that creature. But, that's still cheaper than a fireball/blaze for 13 damage, and gets past shroud (just not protection). 2 creatures on the field- 7 mana- If neither are yours, that's alright, I guess. Just not great. 3 creatures on the field- 6 mana- Still kinda costly, but if none are yours, that's a solid deal. 4 creatures on the field- 5 mana- That's pretty good. I might even throw down some pro-red creatures just to help lower the cost. 5 creatures on the field- 4 mana- Standard wrath mana. 6 creatures on the field- 3 mana- Superior wrath. 7 creatures on the field- 2 mana- You're getting some pretty impressive bang for your buck. 8 or more creatures on the field- 1 mana- Assuming 8 creatures, you're dealing 104 damage for 1 mana.
In a lot of ways, it's similar to Chain Reaction, where it gets better the more creatures there are on the field, but lowering the mana cost while keeping the damage the same makes this card better in my eyes.
linkfiend
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Seeing as no one has mentioned it yet I might as well: Try it with Vigor.
Paladin85
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
2 Mogg Maniac + This card + Geosurge = 26 damage to your opponent Autochton Wurm is now the new king of creatures as all the new high end burns stop at 13
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
between this and Army of the Damned, I'm not sure which is better, but I WILL say this:
All the humans are fucked. :P
The next set is called 'DARK ASCENSION' for crying out loud!
Unless Avacyn turns out to be an Angel Planeswalker in Set 3 as powerful as Nicol Bolas, then I doubt the humans stand a GHOST of a chance.
Gee, luckily I have these two Spitemares on the board.
kiseki
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(8 votes)
Completely splashable too! The only good pro-red creature in red is vulshok refugees, and most of the rest are white. After the spitemares and Mogg Maniacs, you can include things like Darksteel Sentinel, Mother of Runes, and the family and friends of Nomads en-kor. Also, Mistmeadow Skulk survives this even if you only pay . While playing with Chain Reaction, I have noticed that the only creatures that survive are those designed to do so on my side of the board, but that the in the casting cost leaves much to be desired.
Eternal_Blue
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(6 votes)
this card almost makes me want to rate it 5/5. i can't, however, because i suppose i wouldn't want this in every single red deck ever. just.. most of them. and in commander/multi-player? amazing.
dontmess17
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
opponent played this and then Kessig Cagebreakers in my first sealed game.
i was like "welcome to innistrad, this is gonna be fun"
Grumman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Meteors for everyone!
HuntedWumpusMustDie
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Innistrad- "Triskaidekaphobics beware..."
EndOsiris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Paladin85: You can't use the mana provided by Geosurge to cast this. It is neither a creature or an artifact.
Strawb3rryPanic
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
also, just once, I want to copy this with chandra.
infernox10
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Probably the closes Red will get to a Wrath effect. It's a hellova lot more fun, though.
OmegaSerris
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
I was glad to see the rating that people gave this. Those that can't see past the , think about this: you will NEVER cast it for that cost, EVER. The very max is for a single kill spell is . After that, this just gets great. It's like the old Affinity spells that are the first to come to mind when someone mentions the word 'broken'. Only for Creatures, and your don't have to control them, and you kill more for less mana. Cards almost never get that type of efficiency, especially in , home of the spells.
Sure, maybe it's not constructed playable, maybe sideboard if token decks take off. But face value (ignoring environment) of the card is 5/5 to me. And EDH is going to love this.
Why didn't WOTC use the words "Affinity for creatures" in this card? Does WOTC forget they make these abilities? This is a nice card, I wish Balefire Dragon had Affinity.
twinArmaggedons
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(8 votes)
@Charles379
Affiiniity for Creature2 would read, "CARDNAME co2t2 {1} le22 to ca2t for each creature you control." Bla2phemou2 Act read2, "Bla2phemou2 Act co2t2 {1} le22 to ca2t for each creature on the battlefiield."
Aside from the pure fun of dealing 13 points of damage to every creature, this card can be exploited (Spitemare, Stuffy Doll, etc.) And then there's the funny casting cost, which basically says that the more you want to cast this card, the cheaper it becomes. The ability to possibly wipe the board of creatures for R is really cool!
dingophone
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Really cool card for red, beats the hell out of zombies and humans!
Look closer at the art. That dead guy is Selfless Cathar. He didn't even make it out of the church.
DoubleTarget
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
"Why didn't WOTC use the words "Affinity for creatures" in this card? Does WOTC forget they make these abilities? This is a nice card, I wish Balefire Dragon had Affinity."
Non-evergreen keywords sometimes aren't used if the set doesn't feature that keyword. Since Blasphemous Act would be the only card in Innistrad with Affinity, Wizards prefers to avoid using the keyword so as to not shift focus away from other set themes. Plus, people still have bad memories of Affinity so they tend to avoid that keyword in particular.
One more thing. Affinity only counts permanents you control so Blasphemous Act doesn't quite use Affinity.
Crazycolorz5
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Probably intentionally made like so by WOTC... But still annoying... IT PERFECTLY KILLS LUDEVIC'S ABOMINATION... unless I Spectral Flight it.
tachiKC
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My favorite card to use against elves. Because many times they will cast Genesis Wave or use mana ramp to get a ton of elves onto the field? Well 13 damage to each of their faces for ONE mana is such a great feeling.
OneFishTwoFish
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
It's too bad this card doesn't have madness.
RedFishBlueFish
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Madness? This is Innistrad!
Axelle
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Shivan Meteor on all creatures. All the creatures. All of them.
I got 3 of these in a fat pack. They are all being used.
hallowJust have at least 8 creatures total on the battlefield and you net yourself a nice 104+ life for 2 mana, not too shabby.
TAGVoar
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Okay, why hasn't anyone mentioned Vigor yet? Just sit back with a bunch of little guys, and wait for everyone to drop their creatures, then, use this guy, get 13 +1/+1 counters on all of your creatures, watch as their creatures die, then swing for, blarg. Even if Vigor dies, who cares? You have an army of creatures with 13 +1/+1 counters, and if you really want to secure the win, go ahead and use Reverberate and Wrap In Vigor, insuring that all of your creatures end up with 24 of those bad boys.
Atali
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Varchild's War-Riders can quickly and easily build up the creature count and drop fodder on your opponent's side, Repercussion lets me deliver a killing blow.
Dr.Pingas
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
@Toquinha, no, protection from red will absolutely save a creature from this, because even though it's not targeted, it's doing damage, which protection prevents regardless. People REALLY need to learn protection rules.
A card with protection from X cannot be targeted, blocked, damaged, OR enchanted by anything with the characteristic of X. Still the world's best target for Hallow.
vinesofvastwood
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
How about swarming and then combo-ing this with Gutter Grime?
Snowlio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Perfect in werewolf decks while using full moons rise. Shivan meteor falls (eot) and i sacrifice full moons rise and readjust my teams bones and next turn i swing with all my werewolves for lethal.
tiddlywanks
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Love the art.
Stray_Dog
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Been wanting to make a "heretic"-themed deck for some time now, and cards like this really fit the colour identity, as do several other cards in the block. The art itself is quite disturbing--echoes of religious purity coupled with bloody desecration, like something out of Diablo!
Lots of fun with Eldrazi Spawn tokens. Spawning Breath, into Brood Birthing, you already have all the resources to cast this on turn three.
Also, This with Vigor is hilarious. Fieldwipe, plus all my creatures get 13 +1/+1 counters.
Toquinha1977
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Comboed with Rage Thrower, this was a finisher during FNM draft. Deals more damage off the top than if comboed with Falkenrath Noble.
Dienomite807
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This thing is absolutely amazing. This and Mystic Retrieval saved my butt at pre release and it can take out Withengar Unbound as well as Ludevic's Abomination. Red finally gets the board wipe it deserves.
This card is absolutely amazing sideboard tech against Humans and tokens if you can hold out after a bad start. It's always nice to take control of the game back by casting this for against a board full of Humans. Especially when two of those Humans are Fiend Hunters that exiled two Falkenrath Aristocrats.
LADIE-Z
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Umm just a thought....but this card works well with a Bitter ordeal. Just saying is all.
I love this card it works awesome in my vampire deck...
Bobth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If you and your opponent each have 3 creatures, this only costs {2}{R}. Not so unlikely. Especially good in a Stuffy Doll deck, but a very worthy sideboard card even without the Doll.
Domak
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
7 creatures on the board? Let me just cast my 2 mana board whipe... Ridiculous
My undying creatures laugh at your misery. LAUGH, I SAY!
leomistico
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I think that I haven't read "multiplayer" yet... In 4 or 5 player, it's so easy to pay only to clean the battlefield! I want four! Cheaper than every other Wrath of God version, not more effective but funnier and easier to abuse!
In a duel, after the first, your opponent can play around it and you have to pay about to destroy a couple of creatures... Not so great anymore! Good, but not extremely good... Better card can be the usual suspects: Pyroclasm, Slagstorm, Volcanic Fallout, Sulfurous Blast (yes, I think it's a good card...), and the new Mizzium Mortars.
I really like these kind of "burn everything" in red, it's the red kind of control! This one in particular is so hilarious! You deal 13 damages to a bounch of 2/2 or 3/3 creatures, more than enought to kill them 3 or 4 times... Talk about overkill!
4/5
Cyanide17
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Tasty with Boros Reckoner, as pointed out elsewhere.
blurrymadness
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Beautiful boardwipe that can even be hardcast after severe land destruction most of the time. Combos well with Blazing Shoal due to the high CMC and the ability to bypass it and play this spell at a reasonable price.
fourismith
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
The reason that this doesn't have affinity for creatures is because it's not affinity for creatures. affinity only counts things you own. That said, this card remains, in my opinion, the best board sweeper out there. Not strictly better, for a myriad of reasons, but generally better.
Skin-Shifter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Boros Reckoner just laughs and says "come at me bro, I WANT to feel the burn!"
A player at an FTM event won a game that I had him down to two life by using two of these on his Boros Reckoner. Hilarious way to lose. Very awesome card.
EyeballFrog
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Hilarious with Tamanoa. Yeah, you lose it, but you probably also just gained 50+ life. Seems like a fair trade to me.
Westertin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Everyone Keep calm and Negate
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Such an awesome card. I like the art on it, and I like that it's a playable, red board wipe.
Tamerlein
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The main reason that several competitive decks play this card is that it works extremely well with Boros Reckoner, hitting them in the face for a whopping 13 damage.
Reckoner aside, this is a very powerful board wipe spell because most of the time you will be casting for four or less anyway, and it functions virtually the same as Wrath of God, not counting the regenerate.
5/5
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This and stuffy spawned a standard deck type.
RamenAwesome
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A neat little trick I learned while running this in my Werewolf Tribal deck is to sack a Full Moon's Rise and then cast Blasphemous Act to turn it into a one sided board wipe!
IamjustnotCreative
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Mother of God, this + Phytohydra = Board Wipe and a 14/14....
Phelplan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is a reference to the historical story of the Knights Templar being slaughtered by King Philip and the church on Friday the Thirteenth. Knight-Templar/Knight-Cathar (same thing)
EGarrett01
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think this card was a top-down design where they told the creator to make the Magic equivalent of a tactical nuclear weapon. Tactical nukes are meant only to be used on battlefields, and (at least in theory) for emergency or last-resort situations.
Veovis25
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I saw someone else said it but this is great with Tamanoa. If you go that route may I also suggest Mark of Asylum? Then you gain all of that life and you get to keep your creatures :D
Maxofthehouse
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh jesus. Hypothetically, a ultra-buffed Vigor can use this to build a army of Eldrazi, minus Annihilator.
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Outside of standard though, consider Repercussion. KaBOOOM.
At the very least, it's probably the most consistent EDH board wipe Red will ever see.
In order for this to be somewhat equivalent to Day of Judgment there needs to be 5 creatures on the battlefield. very doable. and more than that is just nice.
Though, this card has one of the most jarring flavor texts of all times. When was death a sanctuary from anything, to begin with? Add in the fact that lots of things from this set can come back (so the graveyard is indeed a safe place to hide scary things, but only in Innistrad specifically), we have a line of flavor text that I just wish wasn't there.
0 creatures on the field- 9 mana - Why are you casting this?
1 creature on the field- 8 mana- You must hate that creature. But, that's still cheaper than a fireball/blaze for 13 damage, and gets past shroud (just not protection).
2 creatures on the field- 7 mana- If neither are yours, that's alright, I guess. Just not great.
3 creatures on the field- 6 mana- Still kinda costly, but if none are yours, that's a solid deal.
4 creatures on the field- 5 mana- That's pretty good. I might even throw down some pro-red creatures just to help lower the cost.
5 creatures on the field- 4 mana- Standard wrath mana.
6 creatures on the field- 3 mana- Superior wrath.
7 creatures on the field- 2 mana- You're getting some pretty impressive bang for your buck.
8 or more creatures on the field- 1 mana- Assuming 8 creatures, you're dealing 104 damage for 1 mana.
In a lot of ways, it's similar to Chain Reaction, where it gets better the more creatures there are on the field, but lowering the mana cost while keeping the damage the same makes this card better in my eyes.
Autochton Wurm is now the new king of creatures as all the new high end burns stop at 13
All the humans are fucked. :P
The next set is called 'DARK ASCENSION' for crying out loud!
Unless Avacyn turns out to be an Angel Planeswalker in Set 3 as powerful as Nicol Bolas, then I doubt the humans stand a GHOST of a chance.
Riku+Dark Steel Plate+Spearbreaker Behemoth
One sided nuke. Love it.
The only good pro-red creature in red is vulshok refugees, and most of the rest are white.
After the spitemares and Mogg Maniacs, you can include things like Darksteel Sentinel, Mother of Runes, and the family and friends of Nomads en-kor. Also, Mistmeadow Skulk survives this even if you only pay
While playing with Chain Reaction, I have noticed that the only creatures that survive are those designed to do so on my side of the board, but that the
i was like "welcome to innistrad, this is gonna be fun"
It's a hellova lot more fun, though.
Sure, maybe it's not constructed playable, maybe sideboard if token decks take off. But face value (ignoring environment) of the card is 5/5 to me. And EDH is going to love this.
Opponents not using creatures?
Forbidden orchard.
Affiiniity for Creature2 would read, "CARDNAME co2t2 {1} le22 to ca2t for each creature you control."
Bla2phemou2 Act read2, "Bla2phemou2 Act co2t2 {1} le22 to ca2t for each creature on the battlefiield."
2ee the diifferen2e?
Blasphemous Act coupled with Grimoire of the Dead gets pretty nasty...
Aside from the pure fun of dealing 13 points of damage to every creature, this card can be exploited (Spitemare, Stuffy Doll, etc.) And then there's the funny casting cost, which basically says that the more you want to cast this card, the cheaper it becomes. The ability to possibly wipe the board of creatures for R is really cool!
Non-evergreen keywords sometimes aren't used if the set doesn't feature that keyword. Since Blasphemous Act would be the only card in Innistrad with Affinity, Wizards prefers to avoid using the keyword so as to not shift focus away from other set themes. Plus, people still have bad memories of Affinity so they tend to avoid that keyword in particular.
One more thing. Affinity only counts permanents you control so Blasphemous Act doesn't quite use Affinity.
I got 3 of these in a fat pack. They are all being used.
Just sit back with a bunch of little guys, and wait for everyone to drop their creatures, then, use this guy, get 13 +1/+1 counters on all of your creatures, watch as their creatures die, then swing for, blarg. Even if Vigor dies, who cares? You have an army of creatures with 13 +1/+1 counters, and if you really want to secure the win, go ahead and use Reverberate and Wrap In Vigor, insuring that all of your creatures end up with 24 of those bad boys.
A card with protection from X cannot be targeted, blocked, damaged, OR enchanted by anything with the characteristic of X.
Still the world's best target for Hallow.
Spawning Breath, into Brood Birthing, you already have all the resources to cast this on turn three.
Also, This with Vigor is hilarious. Fieldwipe, plus all my creatures get 13 +1/+1 counters.
5/5
Wait...no...
I love this card it works awesome in my vampire deck...
In a duel, after the first, your opponent can play around it and you have to pay about
I really like these kind of "burn everything" in red, it's the red kind of control! This one in particular is so hilarious! You deal 13 damages to a bounch of 2/2 or 3/3 creatures, more than enought to kill them 3 or 4 times... Talk about overkill!
4/5
Reckoner aside, this is a very powerful board wipe spell because most of the time you will be casting for four or less anyway, and it functions virtually the same as Wrath of God, not counting the regenerate.
5/5
Knight-Templar/Knight-Cathar (same thing)