Also, despite the Invisible Stalker combos, that seven in the mana cost means it will see no constructed play whatsoever!
phyrexiantrygon
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(4 votes)
I see my new EDH general.... :D
Bazzoka
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(4 votes)
@phyrexiantrygon Too bad you can't use it as a general. It doesn't start out as a legendary creature. Just like how you can't use any of the Kamigawa flip cards that start off as normal creatures then turn into legendary creatures.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Story bits: Withengar was a powerful demon bound inside this blade. Geist of Saint Traft (when he was still alive and not a ghost) was a mighty cathar who was tricked by demonic cultist to slay one of them with this blade, releasing the demon, who then proceeded to slay Traft himself. This story is in one of Matt Cavotta's articles, I'll look for it then post the link here.
Totema
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(7 votes)
@phyrexiantrygon If only you could... Could you imagine the flavor, though? "So, who is the mighty commander leading us into battle?" "This knife." "...I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I thought you just said, this knife." "I did. Any other questions?"
Anyways, I can predict some future set shenanigans where an opponent facing this might be able to forcibly transform it back into an equipment. How delicious.
Axelle
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
@Superllama12:
Why pay for it when you can pay instead? (Aside from Modern bannage.)
Guest1741897132
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
10 points for flavor, 5 for the demon, and 1 for constructed usefulness....
I'm not sure how I feel about this card, but with Stonehewer Giant this could be a pretty big surprise.
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Seriously, they could have made it a little better...
Shouldn't a demon-haunted blade be a bit more powerful??
JaFaR_Ironclad
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(12 votes)
"Tis only a flesh wound."
"Flesh wound? Your arm's o- GOOD HEAVENS! RUN AWAY!"
Attach this to any creature and cast Artful Dodge. Presto - instant facepalm from your opponent.
majinara
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(7 votes)
Commander Review: not that great, sadly. The idea is neat, but the card is weak. Why? First, it's quite vulnerable. Artifact removal kills the equipment. Creature removal kills the demon. Any copy artifact / sculpting steel / clone effect can also kill the stuff due to the legendary status. The main reason though is that it's too expensive and requires too much work. First, as equipment, it requires a creature you control that you can and want to attack with (and the creature obviously shouldn't have shroud or protection from artifacts or whatever). Playing and equipping it costs 8 mana, for a lousy +1/+0. And next you need an opponent to attack, who won't or can't block your creature. And your creature needs to hit that player successfully, without beeing destroyed, bounced or whatever. If everything turns out alright, you end up with a large demon. That also has no shroud or indestructible or whatever, and thus can be bounced or killed like any other creature. It's not worth the effort.
1.5/5
seath
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
This card costs too much, but I was amused with it tonight. I was playing UW, so was my opponent, with practically every card being the same in our decks. We mirrored exact turns about 6x in the matches we played, including summoning this bad blade onto an invisible stalker. Crazy stuff, we ended up tying 1/1.
Lord_of_the_Real
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
@card
Totally going to animate it with Karn's Touch, let it hold a Runed Stalactite, then attack. Once blockers are declared, MOONMIST! HA! And you thought I was just trying to bash you for 8! (that's an exclamation mark, not 40320) Alternately Xenograft to Humans, which is also good for Angelic Overseer and Ludevic's Test Subject (w/ Moonmist).
You know what's cool about EDH? You can do whatever the hell you want if your playgroup lets you. It's still primarily a casual format, and even if it weren't you could still play it casually! :D _
@phyrexiantrygon
I hope the people you play EDH with will let you! It sounds like fun. :D _
@majinara
Seriously? Yeah, it costs , but once it's down it doesn't take much to equip. Sure; it can be blown up, but so can almost every creature and artifact. At some point you're going to have a creature that you think will get through, so you just equip it then (or pay to equip it to whatever on the offchance it actually connects). Sure, they can kill the creature, but that's no different from many other pieces of equipment, like Loxodon Warhammer. If it does connect, its effect puts an enormous, must-deal-with threat on the board. Sure, it dies to removal, JUST LIKE 90% OF CREATURES! And being black at least makes it immune to SOME removal, unlike, say Reya Dawnbringer, which dies to practically everything and has to live all the way to your next upkeep and, even once it makes it that far, requires your opponents to NOT remove the creature in your graveyard that you're targeting for reanimation. AND THEN THE CREATURE YOU REVIVE COULD BE KILLED! WHOOP DEE FREAKING DOO!
GOD! You have begun to irritate me.
In the end, think of it this way: no matter what card you play, it can be removed somehow or another, in which case Elbrus wouldn't fare better than anything else. If you don't have the to equip it to a creature, you're probably going to lose. If you don't ever have a creature that can hit your opponent(s), you are also going to lose. In other words, Elbrus is bad if you're already doing so badly that you're going to lose. I don't see how that makes Elbrus bad.
I don't think it's fantastic, but it's certainly not *bad*. Especially considering it could be cheated in and equipped at instant speed using a number of different cards available in EDH.
StoicChampion
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
...and Hans quickly learned that you don't run in the house with the ceremonial dagger.
Davidian
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I put it in my deck for pre-release, never saw it. 2-3 for the evening, not bad for my first limited tourney, didn't know the 40 card limit. 3 color deck (green, black, white, some artifact). Play post tourney game (12 hours total for the day) Only to get dagger in the last game. Hit with it in my red/black standard deck using Chandra's Phoenix,. Card flips, then friend casts Act of Treason. Then kills me with it...
They said I couldn't flip it, they said it was unplayable.
the_sixth_degree
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Now on my Magic bucket list: Pick up one of these in a draft, then grab as many fliers, intimidaters, and Artful Dodges that I can. Hey, I never said it'd be effective, but I'd still love to try it.
Kindulas
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
That might be the coolest looking demon in all of MTG, and I collect Demons.
RedJaron
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Are people here really saying the high CMC will keep this from competitive play? With the number of cards that decrease artifact CMC, I'd be surprised if this doesn't see some play, especially with the dirt cheap equip cost. Mix this with Artful Dodge from this set or of course Invisible Stalker and I can see this hitting as early as T5.
Dragonmaster3.0
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Back when I saw this card's name and that it transformed, but didn't actually know what it was, I thought it could've been one of two things:
1: A demonic blade that "binds" you to it, eventually doing something demonic and game changing.
2: A holy blade of the Avacynian church that transforms into an aura that acts like an Arrest and back again. That would also tie in with the motto of the church of Avacyn: "What cannot be destroyed will be bound."
Still, this card is awesome.
pedrodyl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Animate Dead on Sharuum or even Bringer of the White Dawn, then this, then swing. Just in case, you know, you wanted to reanimate Withengar (I mean he is a giant demon coming out of a crack in the ground).
According to daily magic double face rules this card can be used in a EDH deck that isn't black, since elbrus is an artifact and does not count as a black card when it is in a deck
morugatu
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
You know R&D were sitting there at a table wondering when Timmy and Johnny would stop arguing. Finally one guy stands up and proposes this as a solution. Both Timmy and Johnny can't do anything but get out a feeble, "Why?..." The mysterious man simply answers, "For teh lolz"
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.6/5.0)(5 votes)
@ morugatu. I'm a Johnny, and I understand this card perfectly. :D
It's telling me to play it in Kaalia of the Vast EDH. What's that? Withengar can't be hacked by Kaalia?
No, but Elbrus can still be hacked by Stoneforge Mystic >:D
White is also the color of the only card that can directly exploit this one's ability:
Shahrazad. Yeeeeep. That's...definitely going to be a lot of counters.
Judgemaster_Rolan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card can provide a serious power boost to ANY deck (since it requires only colorless mana to play).
@Teotanek: Not sure where in Daily MtG you supposedly read that, but that is absolutely incorrect. This is a black card. Rule 202.2e: "An object may have a color indicator printed to the left of the type line. That object is each color denoted by that color indicator" and rule 903.4: "The color identity of a card is the color or colors of any mana symbols in that card’s mana cost or rules text, plus any colors defined by its characteristic-defining abilities (see rule 604.3) or color indicator (see rule 204)." While in the library, the card is indeed colorless, but its color identity is still black, and thus cannot be played in Commander decks without black.
So no, this card only fits in Commander decks with Black. Why? Because the card is black. Try telling me a 13/13 flying, trampling, intimidating demon isn't black; just because it starts as a colorless equipment doesn't make it otherwise. Yes, it sucks you can't use it in blue, white, or red artifact based decks, but there are plenty of decks where this crappy equipment turned amazing creature fits.
busdriverdan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
got this for ten dollars cuz some nice guy saw me talking about how much i wanted it and he gave it to me FOR TEN DOLLARS :D *dies from epic joy siezure*
Wait... if he damages two players at once, he transforms BACK but stays unattached? Interesting mental picture...
"Tremble, foolish mortals! I, Withengar, devourer of all that breathes, have awakened from my unholy slumber! Prepare for oblivion as I- oops, nope, I'm a knife again. Oh well, maybe he'll stab a third... wait, where did he go? Hello? Pick me back up, willing slave, your service to me is not yet finished! You have fled in terror prematurely!
...
I don't suppose some epic wizard would like to trip and fall on me anytime soon?"
RuscoJames
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
Step 1: Play Tatsumasa Step 2: Turn Tatsumasa into a dragon Step 3: Play and equip Elbrus to the dragon, hit player Step 4: Kill dragon, equip Tatsumasa to demon.
So I heard you like swords, so I equipped a sword to your sword so you can wield swords while you wield swords.
t1: island, delver of secrets t2: island, invisible stalker t3: island, grand architect, tap your 3 creatures for wurmcoil engine or batterskull t4: island, tap delver, tap grand architect, play and equip elbrus, the binding blade to your invisible stalker and swing to transform.
tried this deck out quite a bit on ***atrice. it's savage.
Arachnos
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
@Totema: to be fair, it's hardly any stranger than an army being led by Isamaru, Hound of Konda.
-My general, the enemy has got us surrounded and his troops outnumber us 3 to 1! What shall we do? -ARF! -Excellent idea sir! But how shall we deal with the enemy's Baneslayer Angels? -Grrrrrr... -You heard the general! MOVE OUT!
Trygon_Predator
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Should have been Legendary Tribal Artifact - Demon Equipment. Having it command an army would be hilarious.
kameenook
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
4 of these in multiplayer!!! With Blood Tyrant would be epic.
Viridian-Dusk
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I can see the combo already...
Turn 1: Kitesail Apprentice Turn 2: Stoneforge Mystic to get Elbrus in your hand Turn 3: Use the Stoneforge's ability to get Elbrus on the field and use your last mana to equip to Kitesail and attack with your new 3/2 flying. Flip Elbrus into Withengar
Shame it is so easy to get rid of...
Ligerman30
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
overpowered, but, then again, you payed 8 mana for it.
5/5
Paleopaladin
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(3 votes)
My all-purpose rant: Let's get out of the way the fact that no one over the age of 13 will ever play this card and the fact that for all the trouble one needs to go to to cast and transform this, Withengar Unbound is a little disappointing.
That being said, I'm glad this card exists. I'm just irked because I wish that "Not a Spike card" didn't have to mean "complete tactical abortion."
Lagren
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Casting cost: 7. Equip cost: 1. Noncreature in its Artifact form. Hello, Arcum Dagsson, would you like to summon a 13/13 demon? Not really? Too bad, you're doing it anyway.
Doom_Lich
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Totema, I don't see why a cult wouldn't follow a possessed sword as their leader. It makes plenty of sense.
Nosrac99
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this is one of the best cards i have. one time i played a phyrexian rebirth when there were 13 cards on the battle field and elbrus then transformed it to withenger. all i have to say , that is whhy my friend has been mad at me for a few days now
:-(
mdbaldw
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Everybody sais this is so easy to get rid of...EVERYTHING in Magic is easy to get rid of at first. Especially these days. Nobody in their right mind would put this out without a way to protect it. Like; Mask of Avacyn, Whispersilk Cloak, Privileged Position..etc
just sayin' cuz I'm tired of people complaining
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
First thing that came to mind after reading the flavour text was Frostmourne from Warcraft 3.
immelmann
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
For those suggesting Stoneforge Mystic, may I kindly remind you shes banned in extended and modern...idk abt you, but I won't feel proud winning with banned cards...unless you're playing casual/vintage/legacy
"A double-faced card has two faces. It has no regular Magic back. Its front face, which is marked with a sun symbol and has a mana cost, is the default. A double-faced card always enters the battlefield with its front face up. This is true whether it enters the battlefield from the stack as the result of being cast, or from anywhere else, such as your graveyard (due to a card like Zombify, for example).
"The back face of a double-faced card is marked with a moon symbol, lacks a mana cost, and has a color indicator—that's the dot on its type line—that tells you what color it is. The two faces of a double-faced card are often the same color, but not always. The back face's characteristics matter only if the card is on the battlefield and its back face is showing. Otherwise, only the front face's characteristics count. (For example, Gatstaf Shepherd's converted mana cost when it's in your deck is 2, not zero.)"
The color indicator only applies when the card is on the battlefield and transformed. So when constructing the deck, the default side is the day side, which is an artifact, and is thus colorless.
This means unless on the battlefield and transformed, this card is a 7 mana legendary artifact card that is colorless.
Mount Elbrus, in the Caucasus Mountains, was the mountain Zeus chained the titan Prometheus to for giving fire to humans in Greek mythology.
This is where Withengar is 'chained'. Although he seems more likely to horribly burn humans than hand them new power.
psychichobo
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Mock it all you want for silly cost and awkwardness, but the one time this bugger does turn up and wreck face will be a memorable time indeed. Never seen so many players panic when they realise no-one currently is holding any removal, and they hope to draw into some once he's transformed. Which makes it awkward when you then play another fatty and make them panic.
TheWallinator74
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If killing someone with this blade would release a demon of kaiju-sized proportions upon our world just itching to annihilate all of civilization, they everyone should pray it never reaches my hands. Because I'd be just crazy enough to release him.
polgas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If Withengar is destroyed, does it go to the graveyard as Withengar and can it be the target of a spell that can bring a creature into play from a graveyard like Necromancy?
patronofthesound
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I think ive found my new edh general
Jk jk....it costs 7.
(Im aware its an artifact, that was a subtle joke im subsequently ruining to deter unnecessary responses of the obvious)
Demonic_Math_Tutor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Holy crapola that is a massive demon.
I love the flavor of this card; truly one of the most flavorful cards from the block (rivaled by Helvault, Griselbrand, Avacyn and her ilk).
Continue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Seven mana and then one more to equip... for a Shuko? I hope it's worth all the trouGOOD GOD IT'S A DEMON
xaipe24
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Yikes! Wouldn't wanna take a swing from that guy to the face. Good thing I've got that flying, black 0/14 wall in my deck...
6Mortifer9
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Daijin26, -you- are incorrect. 903.4 should be taken to mean that any color indicators or color-indicative text on either face of a double-sided card contribute to that card's color identity. Were you to ask any member of the commander rules committee, then I suspect they would tell you the same as that is what Sheldon told me.
Ebonblade7
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Does anyone know if this works with Abyssal Persecutor?
If it doesn't, what use is it's effect? Besides having more than one player
ArchangelMarkov
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like this card, but the problem with it, is it's high mana cost and HUGE vulerability as an artifact. I have a w/b mid-range that would kill it with fire from a simple Solemn Offering. However I'd love to see this connected to soething like an Izzet Staticaster because it'd nail em quick and easy with flash. Or maybe something as simple as putting it on Purphoros, God of the Forge and playing a random card to hit em with two damage, then pop out Withengar
Syrtees
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ArchangelMarkov Combat Damage can only be dealt by creatures that are declared as attackers during the combat phase. There are so many cards that would be broken if they didn't say "combat".
Guest548477667
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can you use illusionary mask to cheat it into play.
Lazrbeams
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
THE FLAVOR. ITS IN MY EYES.
It's worth noting that this character is pivotal in the story of the Geist of Saint Traft. Saint traft, before becoming a spirit, was a super badass even stronger than his ghostly form (yikes!) who had flights of angels at his call, was conned into killing a bunch of cultists with this dagger, therefore summoning Withengar and getting his face wrecked.
For those vorthoses who care https://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/175
j_mindfingerpainter
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Anyone know if you can run this in nonblack EDH? I'm guessing you can't, but I'm not sure.
Darnold
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Probably my favourite card there is. The flavour is just so amaazing. Now I just have to find a way to use it.
S_Jake
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Guest548477667: No, it's not a creature card when it's in your hand as it is "face up".
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Worst case tap out 8 mana for this and swing same turn, flip same turn. Should just include in an EDH deck just for the heck of it. Though in a 1v1 duel, this is harder to use.
arrisnyte
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I've been out of the game for 15 years, so please take it easy on me when I ask this, since the rules have had so many alterations and additions over the last decade and a half, but:
If I cast this, then equip it, then attack with it against player A...does Withengar have summoning sickness? If not, can he then also attack in the same turn, or is it too late because that combat phase is over?
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Also, despite the Invisible Stalker combos, that seven in the mana cost means it will see no constructed play whatsoever!
This story is in one of Matt Cavotta's articles, I'll look for it then post the link here.
"So, who is the mighty commander leading us into battle?"
"This knife."
"...I'm sorry, could you repeat that? I thought you just said, this knife."
"I did. Any other questions?"
Anyways, I can predict some future set shenanigans where an opponent facing this might be able to forcibly transform it back into an equipment. How delicious.
Why pay
I'm not sure how I feel about this card, but with Stonehewer Giant this could be a pretty big surprise.
Shouldn't a demon-haunted blade be a bit more powerful??
"Flesh wound? Your arm's o- GOOD HEAVENS! RUN AWAY!"
T2: Swing for 1 Damage. Cast Stoneforge Mystic
T4:
Enemy: Go for the Throat your Withengar Unbound.
T5: Swing for 2 :(
First, as equipment, it requires a creature you control that you can and want to attack with (and the creature obviously shouldn't have shroud or protection from artifacts or whatever). Playing and equipping it costs 8 mana, for a lousy +1/+0. And next you need an opponent to attack, who won't or can't block your creature. And your creature needs to hit that player successfully, without beeing destroyed, bounced or whatever.
If everything turns out alright, you end up with a large demon. That also has no shroud or indestructible or whatever, and thus can be bounced or killed like any other creature. It's not worth the effort.
1.5/5
Totally going to animate it with Karn's Touch, let it hold a Runed Stalactite, then attack. Once blockers are declared, MOONMIST! HA! And you thought I was just trying to bash you for 8! (that's an exclamation mark, not 40320) Alternately Xenograft to Humans, which is also good for Angelic Overseer and Ludevic's Test Subject (w/ Moonmist).
P.S. @Standard: Xenograft, Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas, and Moonmist.
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@Bazzoka
You know what's cool about EDH? You can do whatever the hell you want if your playgroup lets you. It's still primarily a casual format, and even if it weren't you could still play it casually! :D
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@phyrexiantrygon
I hope the people you play EDH with will let you! It sounds like fun. :D
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@majinara
Seriously? Yeah, it costs
GOD! You have begun to irritate me.
In the end, think of it this way: no matter what card you play, it can be removed somehow or another, in which case Elbrus wouldn't fare better than anything else. If you don't have the
I don't think it's fantastic, but it's certainly not *bad*. Especially considering it could be cheated in and equipped at instant speed using a number of different cards available in EDH.
Hey, I never said it'd be effective, but I'd still love to try it.
1: A demonic blade that "binds" you to it, eventually doing something demonic and game changing.
2: A holy blade of the Avacynian church that transforms into an aura that acts like an Arrest and back again. That would also tie in with the motto of the church of Avacyn: "What cannot be destroyed will be bound."
Still, this card is awesome.
Just in case, you know, you wanted to reanimate Withengar (I mean he is a giant demon coming out of a crack in the ground).
It's telling me to play it in Kaalia of the Vast EDH. What's that? Withengar can't be hacked by Kaalia?
No, but Elbrus can still be hacked by Stoneforge Mystic >:D
White is also the color of the only card that can directly exploit this one's ability:
Shahrazad. Yeeeeep. That's...definitely going to be a lot of counters.
I'm sad.
So no, this card only fits in Commander decks with Black. Why? Because the card is black. Try telling me a 13/13 flying, trampling, intimidating demon isn't black; just because it starts as a colorless equipment doesn't make it otherwise. Yes, it sucks you can't use it in blue, white, or red artifact based decks, but there are plenty of decks where this crappy equipment turned amazing creature fits.
I sincerely hope you're joking.
"Tremble, foolish mortals! I, Withengar, devourer of all that breathes, have awakened from my unholy slumber! Prepare for oblivion as I- oops, nope, I'm a knife again. Oh well, maybe he'll stab a third... wait, where did he go? Hello? Pick me back up, willing slave, your service to me is not yet finished! You have fled in terror prematurely!
...
I don't suppose some epic wizard would like to trip and fall on me anytime soon?"
Step 2: Turn Tatsumasa into a dragon
Step 3: Play and equip Elbrus to the dragon, hit player
Step 4: Kill dragon, equip Tatsumasa to demon.
So I heard you like swords, so I equipped a sword to your sword so you can wield swords while you wield swords.
In the same deck put Dancing Scimitar and Leonin Scimitar for more swords holding swords.
t2: island, invisible stalker
t3: island, grand architect, tap your 3 creatures for wurmcoil engine or batterskull
t4: island, tap delver, tap grand architect, play and equip elbrus, the binding blade to your invisible stalker and swing to transform.
tried this deck out quite a bit on ***atrice. it's savage.
-My general, the enemy has got us surrounded and his troops outnumber us 3 to 1! What shall we do?
-ARF!
-Excellent idea sir! But how shall we deal with the enemy's Baneslayer Angels?
-Grrrrrr...
-You heard the general! MOVE OUT!
Turn 1: Kitesail Apprentice
Turn 2: Stoneforge Mystic to get Elbrus in your hand
Turn 3: Use the Stoneforge's ability to get Elbrus on the field and use your last mana to equip to Kitesail and attack with your new 3/2 flying. Flip Elbrus into Withengar
Shame it is so easy to get rid of...
5/5
That being said, I'm glad this card exists. I'm just irked because I wish that "Not a Spike card" didn't have to mean "complete tactical abortion."
:-(
just sayin' cuz I'm tired of people complaining
http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/157b
I quote:
"A double-faced card has two faces. It has no regular Magic back. Its front face, which is marked with a sun symbol and has a mana cost, is the default. A double-faced card always enters the battlefield with its front face up. This is true whether it enters the battlefield from the stack as the result of being cast, or from anywhere else, such as your graveyard (due to a card like Zombify, for example).
"The back face of a double-faced card is marked with a moon symbol, lacks a mana cost, and has a color indicator—that's the dot on its type line—that tells you what color it is. The two faces of a double-faced card are often the same color, but not always. The back face's characteristics matter only if the card is on the battlefield and its back face is showing. Otherwise, only the front face's characteristics count. (For example, Gatstaf Shepherd's converted mana cost when it's in your deck is 2, not zero.)"
The color indicator only applies when the card is on the battlefield and transformed. So when constructing the deck, the default side is the day side, which is an artifact, and is thus colorless.
This means unless on the battlefield and transformed, this card is a 7 mana legendary artifact card that is colorless.
Mount Elbrus, in the Caucasus Mountains, was the mountain Zeus chained the titan Prometheus to for giving fire to humans in Greek mythology.
This is where Withengar is 'chained'. Although he seems more likely to horribly burn humans than hand them new power.
Jk jk....it costs 7.
(Im aware its an artifact, that was a subtle joke im subsequently ruining to deter unnecessary responses of the obvious)
I love the flavor of this card; truly one of the most flavorful cards from the block (rivaled by Helvault, Griselbrand, Avacyn and her ilk).
If it doesn't, what use is it's effect? Besides having more than one player
It's worth noting that this character is pivotal in the story of the Geist of Saint Traft.
Saint traft, before becoming a spirit, was a super badass even stronger than his ghostly form (yikes!) who had flights of angels at his call, was conned into killing a bunch of cultists with this dagger, therefore summoning Withengar and getting his face wrecked.
For those vorthoses who care
https://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/175
If I cast this, then equip it, then attack with it against player A...does Withengar have summoning sickness? If not, can he then also attack in the same turn, or is it too late because that combat phase is over?