this is rare? why? because it is a cheap blue flier? Looking at cards like this, I'm happy the power creep occured...
Dalek9
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
I agree with mr. bloodyspasm. The whole leech cycle is just... weak.
PolarisDeNexum
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
If at least it was a 3/3 or 3/2 creature.... I never would use this card in a deck
StoneEvolution
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I have a deck where I run this card. It's just to poer Force of Will. :D
Gezus82
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
it's funny but this as probably the best of the cycle. why are these rares? why were they printed at all?
darigaaazzz
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
this + donate + alter reality if u are playing against a mono-colored deck for expample u change the word "blue" to "white". that way ur opponent must pay one blue mana for each white spell he plays, so he practicly cant play white spells at all.
EternalLurker
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(4 votes)
As darigaaazzz points out, this card is quite Donatable. That makes this leech the only viable one, as far as I can tell, since Donate is a blue card.
hid@n
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Wow this bad. It would be one thing if it made all blue spells cost one more, but it is just yours. It has no good qualities. Its horrible, not fun to play with, and doesn't make up for it with art or flavor. Horrible.
allmighty_abacus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I would have been so angry if I opened a booster pack and found this waste of paper (or any of the other invasion leeches) clogging up my rare slot. Mercifully, that never happened.
blindthrall
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I hate the art, I think it's the most terrifying Magic art I've ever seen. The green leech was at least playable. 5/5 for 4cc wasn't bad.
NeoKoda
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
OK, this card has some obscure uses with donate, but all in all, it's a piece of junk. It's not the worst card ever, but I'd eat a moose if I got this as my rare in a booster.
LUR
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Sideboard this against blue in a Zedruu, the Greathearted commander deck
Doaj
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
When I saw this, I was immediately excited. Because my first thought was, "This card is horrible!" I couldn't wait to read the comments and hear what inventive, cool combos people thought up. All in all, it's sideboard tech with Zedruu, and a Donate/Alter Reality combo. Which is pretty impressive. But I was expecting something a bit more lockdown than that. I'll just have to build around it myself, I guess.
Actually, thinking of it now, with Zedruu, Donate or Bazaar Trader and a Painter Servant, you can effectively lock your opponent from playing any spells for the remainder of the game. Donate a Leech of a color he doesn't play, and use Painter Servant to make all spells that color. He'll have to pay an extra colored mana to play any of his spells, and if he can't pay it, he won't be able to play at all.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Okay, splash and have this as your only blue card, as x4 of. Not unplayable, Wind Drake for 1 less. Okay there are better cards, but I would have made decks around these guys just because. This and the green one can be actually be used, the other 3 are really terrible.
Enelysios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Nucleon It does not allow you to cast Evermind, sorry. The cost doesn't exist, it isn't just zero like the pacts. You need an alternative, not an increase. Fist of Suns, Jhoira of the Ghitu, or Omniscience will let you cast it. Anything that gets around cost.
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Not unplayable, Wind Drake for 1 less. Okay there are better cards, but I would have made decks around these guys just because. This and the green one can be actually be used, the other 3 are really terrible.