1 of 2 cards this set has come out with that breaks that 'unusable' Carnival of Souls. This and Phyrexian Unlife, and both of those cards have synergy as well.
My Enduring Renewal/Children of Korlis/Edgewalker combo deck is going to be getting an overhaul.
Vedalken_Arbiter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love how this looks like some kind of freaky Doctor Frankenstein style lab.
Magicannon
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Pulled this at the prerelease. Mostly useless, though I was able to pull off a couple hilarious wins with it.
If only this wasn't so expansive to use. Still it's fun with infect so it has something going for it I guess.
blindthrall
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I'd have to see it in action before I could say if it were overcosted. Is it a card you build around, or a panic button?
oj48
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Busdude, shut the *** up. people like you shit me up the fucken wall, just cause a card costs a lot of mana doesn't mean its bad, it often means its really good. since there is nothing that is not extremely powerful about swapping life totals with your opponent, if i'm low, yes i'd pay six mana to nearly kill them and heal myself drastically, its fucks like you that should go play Yu gi oh, since you clearly don't know a good card (game) when you see it. go *** yourself.
Donovan_Fabian
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Melira, Sylvok Outcast, and Phyrexian Unlife, and this card with anything you can pay repeated phyrexian mana for is just lol. Don't expect it to win any tournaments, but it sure is fun for casual.
GoatKnapper
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I can't wait for multiplayer and/or edh madness with this baddy...this is will make you the top of the political pyramid
poprockmonster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I think there's a reason they printed this in the same set that they gave us Phyrexian Mana... Like if you get yourself down pretty far, say to 8, and then drop this, your opponent will hesitate to attack unless they can outright kill you, so at worst I'd call this a funky stall tactic, and a great way to make certain cards' drawbacks positive... Lord of the Pit for instance...
BastianQoU
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
All you need to do is cast it. When your opponents look at it, knowing that whatever damage they deal to you could very easily become a self-inflicted wound, they'll back off until they can one-hit you. Pretty nice in control decks.
Bigg_ol_FATTKIDD
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
In Commander I've routinely killed off tables with Lich / Repay in Kind. This is that same thing, except you draw equal to there life total and only one person gets knocked.
I was at a draft last weekend (NPH/MBS/SOM). I passed it the first time (can't remember what I took in place of it, but I ended up with a sweet mono-red deck...not that I knew I was going to end up Mono-R at that time...), and, not surprisingly, it wheeled and came back to me. There was nothing else good in the pack so I snatched it up figuring it would be a nice surprise card if my deck got stalled out.
This card won me two games, one of which I had absolutely no business winning. That game was definitely the match clincher against an opponent who had an absolutely incredible W/U control deck with bounce cards flying all over the place. He got me down to 1 lifepoint, cast a numbing dose on my soul conduit and passed the turn, in response to the numbing dose life loss trigger I swap life totals, he is now at 1 and I am now at 16 (15 when the numbing dose trigger resolves). With all his bounce he still has the board position and I have an empty board except for my lands and my now forever tapped soul conduit. It takes me two turns to draw a victory out of my deck and...er graveyard (thank you metalcraft on Kuldotha Phoenix; he killed it the first time by trading with a cryptoplasm) over the course of which he's hammering me with his creatures and gets me back down to 5 life points before I'm finally able to resurrect the phoenix and swing through for the win.
The second game it helped in, it might not have been entirely necessary, but it was nice to pull. My opponent was gaining truckloads of life off of a Fangren Marauder, but I was holding him at bay with an Accorder's Shield on an Ogre Menial. He was 'round abouts 32 life when I pulled the soul conduit and gave him my 16 life points. Considering my board position at the time it was all downhill for me from there.
I ended up 3-0.
MechaKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use this when you want to cast Phyrexian Mana cards using your opponents life points. Also great for shutting down life gain decks. 4/5 for support and utility.
This would have been fun in our last night's 5 player highlander 'highest life' game.
creepycrawler
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fun win with Phyrexian Unlife (as has been mentioned) and Immolating Souleater. It's always fun to have machines that reward incompetence. Also, the foil version looks awesome.
TheSwarm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ OJ48: You sound like such a little girl, adults use real words to express there feelings, not whatever swear word passes through their mind first. It is people like you who should be playing yugioh because obviously you are 5 years old and having a temper tantrum.
Arachibutyrophobia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In the prerelease my opponent played a phyrexian obliterator, and I didn't even bat an eye. I played this baby, took his obliterator each turn, then just switched our life totals and killed him with a shrine of burning rage.
"Why are you killing youself with Phyrexain mana?" "You'll see ;)" *Plays this*
Did that to a mate who was playing mono white lifegain. Was pretty lulzy. Every time I got low, I would just switch life with him.
I won once Sheoldred and Glissa hit the board.
SquirePath
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This just needs a giant picture of Captain Ginyu. Then it would be visually accurate. lol
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Looks like control decks have a new fail-safe. Should be fun!
D34D2R1T35
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Brutal in EDH multiplayer, such a politics card.
omni8000
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
just another card to break good ol necropotence with
BlackWhite2TheCore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
the whole point of magic is to play creatures and spells to destroy your opponents creatures and bring there life total to zero. the player that has the higher life total and has done more damage to the opposite player is considered winning. this card is a unfair card because it erases all of the work the winning player has put into getting to where they are at and gives the opponent the upper hand. in my opinion this is basically steeling a win from that player and they can do nothing to stop you. i am writing this post because a while back i was playing my white/ blue human deck against my brothers green/ red cat deck. my brothers life total was 1 and mine was 29. i had 5 creatures on the battlefield, all of them pumped up with innistrad human eqiupments and 1 was a 5/5 unblockable. all of them were tapped except for my haunted gardian (defender). i would have won however my brother, having played soul conduit a turn back, switched are life totals and attacked me with his two sabertooth tigers. as i was know at one point with one blocker and two attacking creatures both 2/1's i lost the game. i am a blue player and love control cards but this card i think is just two cheap to put in a deck. i know a lot of you might disagree with me but in my opinion this card should be banned.
Gameguy602
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Play Vile Bile, remove your glove, and poke it 9 times. Activate this card.
TheDementiaBat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
fun edh card
Stinga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Cool card but I have a major Vorthos issue with it. The soul conduit is the whole reason Memnarch made Mirrodin the way it is: he wanted to steal a planeswalker spark from one of the sentient creatures he abducted and transplanted there. Needless to say it did not end up working, doing this instead. So naturally the device that shaped two sets has some flavor text from a random guy saying "Phyrexian values, LOL" Pity, so much potential.
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Moltensteel Dragon is perfect with this. Drop that turn 4 or 5, this next turn, and the turn after that they die
Secksee
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
First turn win. Forest, Elvish Spirit Guide, Channel for 19, Soul Conduit, Gut Shot.
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With anything with a repeatable Phyrexian mana symbol, just off them with a Gut Shot. Just watch out for their Gut Shot in response to the switch.
My Enduring Renewal/Children of Korlis/Edgewalker combo deck is going to be getting an overhaul.
When your opponents look at it, knowing that whatever damage they deal to you could very easily become a self-inflicted wound, they'll back off until they can one-hit you. Pretty nice in control decks.
I so excite. My Urborg/Coffers new best friend.
This card won me two games, one of which I had absolutely no business winning. That game was definitely the match clincher against an opponent who had an absolutely incredible W/U control deck with bounce cards flying all over the place. He got me down to 1 lifepoint, cast a numbing dose on my soul conduit and passed the turn, in response to the numbing dose life loss trigger I swap life totals, he is now at 1 and I am now at 16 (15 when the numbing dose trigger resolves). With all his bounce he still has the board position and I have an empty board except for my lands and my now forever tapped soul conduit. It takes me two turns to draw a victory out of my deck and...er graveyard (thank you metalcraft on Kuldotha Phoenix; he killed it the first time by trading with a cryptoplasm) over the course of which he's hammering me with his creatures and gets me back down to 5 life points before I'm finally able to resurrect the phoenix and swing through for the win.
The second game it helped in, it might not have been entirely necessary, but it was nice to pull. My opponent was gaining truckloads of life off of a Fangren Marauder, but I was holding him at bay with an Accorder's Shield on an Ogre Menial. He was 'round abouts 32 life when I pulled the soul conduit and gave him my 16 life points. Considering my board position at the time it was all downhill for me from there.
I ended up 3-0.
My opponent responded with Glissa's Scorn
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-
It's always fun to have machines that reward incompetence.
Also, the foil version looks awesome.
"You'll see ;)" *Plays this*
Did that to a mate who was playing mono white lifegain. Was pretty lulzy. Every time I got low, I would just switch life with him.
I won once Sheoldred and Glissa hit the board.
Then it would be visually accurate. lol
Forest, Elvish Spirit Guide, Channel for 19, Soul Conduit, Gut Shot.