You might think this to be a quite unreliable card since the card is discarded at random and your opponent will make the decision on top of that, which means that fatties will most often hit the graveyard anyways, but aside from that he has to pay a lot of life, and it's still really useful and spares a lot of mana in a creature-heavy deck.
joboo99
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(9 votes)
use this in a deck that has all creatures other than this card.
1st turn gruul turf 2nd turn any color land and play aether rift 3rd turn more than likely drop creature unless opponent pays 5 life
i use these and keldon firebombers to reduce all land in play to only 3. then your opponent really can't do much of anything. either let the creatures stay in play or die within 6 turns.
Vadoff
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
@joboo99 You can't first turn gruul turf, as that would be the land you'd have to return to your hand.
OpenSeasonNoobs
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Just run 30+ creatures and 20 lands, do low cost hasties like Rip-Clan Crasher and take a 2 mana hand. Either way, you're going to end up with a solid R/G duel deck and the enchantment is gonna work by super accelerating it. You can cascade into another one of these with a Bloodbraid Elf. You now get to drop 2 creatures basically for free, or your opponent gets to choose to lose 5 life. Play it with Fecundity to make sure you've always got cards in hand to discard. Amazing Gruul card, which works off the concept of "Do as much damage as fast as possible because RED GREEN SMASHY SMASHY."
bijart_dauth
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(3 votes)
just run it with cards like progenitus or the new eldrazi or darksteel colossuses. then after your opponent made you discard 3 cards, you get your ubber creature and kill him with it. because honestly, are you going to let them play any of those cards on like turn 4 or 5?
themlsna
★★★★☆ (5.0/5.0)(10 votes)
Pay 5 life, or deal with my flaming goat-man.
Lionhawk
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I really like this card. There are so many uses for it, in the right deck. 4/5
Pariseau
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Play this with life from the loam. Since the discard is random you might discard some lands, youll want them back, and if you discard life it as dredge anyway and you still get your land(s) back. Win win situation.
Restless Dreams seems like an amusing way to ensure a creature gets discarded. Nostalgic Dreams also works if you can't splash black, though I'd probably still splash black so I can Animate Dead.
Last Rites would also be pretty harsh. Abandon Hope costs more mana, but also hits lands.
This is sounds great with the new bloodrush, since you can run a lot more creatures w/o loosing utility and whatnot.
Equinox523
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fastbond would greatly improve a deck containing nothing but creatures and land. Drop all your lands and then play creatures as normal, while also "randomly" discarding creatures or Lava Axes, depending on your opponent's decision. Also synergistic with Gift of the Gargantuan and Worldly Tutor, ensuring that your next draws are creatures.
Personally I love build-around rares like this. They make you think how you can get the most out of them and provide new context for other cards, making you evaluate them in a different light.
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1st turn gruul turf
2nd turn any color land and play aether rift
3rd turn more than likely drop creature unless opponent pays 5 life
i use these and keldon firebombers to reduce all land in play to only 3. then your opponent really can't do much of anything. either let the creatures stay in play or die within 6 turns.
You can't first turn gruul turf, as that would be the land you'd have to return to your hand.
Last Rites would also be pretty harsh. Abandon Hope costs more mana, but also hits lands.
Firestorm, Lightning Axe, and/or Sickening Dreams could help you stay alive if your opponent somehow has the life to keep warding off the Rift.
Alternately, Library of Leng and/or Haunted Crossroads can keep recycling the same major threat until it sticks.
Personally I love build-around rares like this. They make you think how you can get the most out of them and provide new context for other cards, making you evaluate them in a different light.