imagine if it was ten damage. Everyone would be apalled.
JL_Weber
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(4 votes)
@Kryptnyt: lol yup, they certainly would be now imagine if it was 20, or worse 20,000!!!
tcollins
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Use with Inkmoth Nexus, damage will be dealt in the form of -1/-1 counters to creatures and poison counters to players, not anything groundbreaking but enables this card to get rid of indestructible creatures...
EvilCleavage
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(2 votes)
@tcollins nice one, the only thing i'm wondering is if you have to turn it into a creature before you tap it or not.
djflo
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@tcollins, it only has infect while it's a creature, and it will kill itself with the counter it puts on itself. Still, sets up for proliferate effects OK even if it costs two cards.
humor_love
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I love the comment by JL_Weber.
Wasret
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
This is interesting, its a 3mana pestilence that in a sense gets around the clause "at end of turn sacrifice if there are no creatures in play". But it also uses up a land tap. Perhaps on like Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth which doesn't exactly have a tap effect it would be useful. Shame it can't be activated more than once. Still, in a pestilence deck why not.
DoragonShinzui
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Wasret: Um, dude? Two things.
1. Pestilence requires mana. Which requires a land tap, usually. All this really does is limit how much you can hit per turn.
2. Urborg makes itself a Swamp, giving it the ": Add to your mana pool." ability inherent to swamps.
AllOfTheSpells
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
this card had served me well whenever Azor's Elocutors is out
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Repeatable Tremor that hits flyers and players, not bad.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Usually you'll want Plague Spitter or Pestilence instead. It's nice that T4 you can hit with this right off; but that's when plague would've had 1-2 activations and been able to attack already. Plague requires no mana to keep activating each turn and goes off if they kill it; which is nice.
While Pestilence may initially seem like the closest comparison, the tapping nature of this makes it so that you cannot trigger this multiple times without having more than one copy (or untapping tricks). While it can be a mini-board wipe, it's worth noting that it makes your hand a colorless source of damage, which deals with pesky creatures with Protection from Black or circumvents Circle of Protection: Black.
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1. Pestilence requires mana. Which requires a land tap, usually. All this really does is limit how much you can hit per turn.
2. Urborg makes itself a Swamp, giving it the "
Also consider Last Laugh