Meh. A 1/1 with a semi-supported creature type that you can staple a Doom Blade to? Not bad but not groundbreakingly good either.
Mister_Tapwater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ew. This card compares unfavourably to Heartstabber Mosquito, and that guy isn't exactly a powerhouse. I'm sure the Emissary got played in limited, because removal is removal, but it's hard to envisage a situation where you'd want to play it un-kicked. Even when you do kick it, a 1/1 on turn 5 isn't really useful enough to make this a real 2-for-1.
reapersaurus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
HORRIBLY designed card. A 1/1 creature should not cost 2R. It should cost R. If they didn't want the kicker ability used cheaply, they simply should have increased it to 3B.
They overcosted the useless CREATURE instead of modifying the kicker cost. (!)
Deepfried-Owls
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The art and name had me going for a second and as I scrolled to see the ability...
One of the more approriate times to kill the messenger.
Hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... get it?
It seems this card needs some explaining. The effect for this guys kicker cost is not doom blade as so many of you seem to think. Its Dark Banishing which is a more powerful and more expensive card to play.
A "decent" casting cost for a red 1/1 is {1}{R}(a "good" red 1/1 would be {R} and a "great" would be a 1/1 with haste/fist strike/etc or a power of 2< with a reasonable additional cost). The casting cost for Dark Banishing is {2}{B}
Having a kicker effect amps cards by giving card or board advantage and so to balance that the cmc on most are warped.
Tiggurix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Test-Subject_217601: The effect is not like a Doomblade, it's like a Dark Banishing.
DacenOctavio
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Red card advantage is usually steeply priced. What not many have pointed out is, this gets around protection from black. Which is exactly the same reason I play Dark Temper in my Crosis, the Purger EDH. However, I'd be more inclined to draft this if it was at least a 2/1.
ThatStunna
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nekrataal would send this guy's head back on a stick.
I like the theme though... send an emissary, have him pay extra to murder someone.
Lord_Ascapelion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is pretty much just a kill spell with a body added on. There is pretty much no reason why you'd ever want to play this card unkicked... As someone else said, it's really poorly designed: kicker is supposed to be an OPTIONAL part of a spell, not the whole point of it!
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I really think it should've been {R} with {2}{B}. Usually these effects give you soemthing mediocre if played early and something decent/mediocre later, which that card would do.
This guy is almost always bad :( As more and more tokens exist, which are often 1/1s for {1} (or better) and in card-advantage form, this guy sinks lower on the power-scale.
2/5 IMO
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Generally only useful if you can abuse the fact that it's on a body (by bouncing it, say)
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A 1/1 creature should not cost 2R. It should cost R.
If they didn't want the kicker ability used cheaply, they simply should have increased it to 3B.
They overcosted the useless CREATURE instead of modifying the kicker cost. (!)
One of the more approriate times to kill the messenger.
Hahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... get it?
A "decent" casting cost for a red 1/1 is {1}{R}(a "good" red 1/1 would be {R} and a "great" would be a 1/1 with haste/fist strike/etc or a power of 2< with a reasonable additional cost). The casting cost for Dark Banishing is {2}{B}
Having a kicker effect amps cards by giving card or board advantage and so to balance that the cmc on most are warped.
I like the theme though... send an emissary, have him pay extra to murder someone.
This guy is almost always bad :(
As more and more tokens exist, which are often 1/1s for {1} (or better) and in card-advantage form, this guy sinks lower on the power-scale.
2/5 IMO