This is pretty much the cornerstone of mono-red EDH.
Feralsymphony
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Awesome in the regular card frame. If only they had given us Damnation too...
Kazuhiro
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I LOVE T HIS CARD. But I can't use it very well when Kaalia is out. Really, they give me this awesome ass-beating general that encourages a deck full of fatties, but she dies to a Pyroclasm.
sarroth
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@Kazuhiro: Welcome to balanced card building. Luckily my deck has Eldrazi Monument. Or, if you really need to use Pyrohemia, then you can afford to lose your commander as well - no different than if you cast Wrath of God.
Pyrohemia would seem to translate roughly as "fire blood". Ouch.
scumbling1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card is awesome, and it looks so much better with a traditional border. The one thing I have to question is how useful it can be in a three-color deck with a dodgy manabase.
I love having this card in my Jund Vampire EDH. It makes Bloodlord of Vaasgoth a real threat once Mephidross Vampire is out on the board.
axiobeta
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Gotta love planeshifted stuff. And this card's name, damn.
infernox10
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
We don't need no water, let the mother ****er burn, Burn mother ****er, Burn.
Grumman
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Once Gisela, Blade of Goldnight comes out, she'll double the damage this does to your enemies and negate the damage it does to your allies. Win-win!
2097
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great card and I’m all for it, but the sickness theme and top down design make it not a “tom”. Always loved Pestilence. (Planar Chaos cards were divided into neat alternate universe things, vs “toms”—see af156.) I think Pyrohemia makes total sense as an alternate universe card but Pestilence is the “right” card—as a disease, it can only live while there are creatures out.
syrazemyla
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It does combo well with Stuffy Doll. He doubles the damage your opponent is taking, and is conveniently indestructible so you don't have to sacrifice Pyrohemia.
@2097: What the hell is a "tom"? And Pestilence doesn't makes more sense at all, in my opinion. For Pestilence, to be a perfect card, it should be: (or whatever...) Enchantment At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice ~. : put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.
Or, I think even better, like a crossover between Midnight Banshee and Pestilence: At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature. At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice ~.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Any protection from red creature for a classic color shifted combo.
Very controlly card for an aggro color. I will say I wish they had made it green, the built in synergy with fatties would have been stellar. Green is also hardest pressed to wipe out little threats such as mana dorks and royal assassins, and this would have done it. It's crazy how one card can shape a whole color's metagame.
poultry
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This + Tamanoa + Manabarbs. Very upsetting board state for your opponents. I use Darksteel Myr usually to keep mine on the board.
Antsache
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ leomistico
"Tom" is a term that originated in the Time Spiral block that usually refers to cards that finally correct a perceived misplacement of an effect/ability that really "belongs" in one color (or that has experienced some other sort of color shift that brings the pie closer to what it "should" look like). The name "Tom" comes from Prodigal Pyromancer, who was given this nickname as a riff on "Tim," the nickname of Prodigal Sorcerer (which I think he got from Monty Python? I was never really clear on that). Before the introduction of "Tom" the unconditional, vanilla "ping" was most commonly printed on blue creatures, despite it feeling much more at home in red's slice of the pie.
This card might be considered a "Tom" in that sense because universal damage is much more commonplace in red than in black. However, I agree with 2097 that it has some problems, mostly stemming from the "at least one creature has to be out" disease angle. That feels very black, and as such this card feels like a cross between a "Tom" and a typical shifted card, with one half bringing red an effect that fits well within its pie, and the other introducing something foreign.
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Burn mother ****er,
Burn.
And Pestilence doesn't makes more sense at all, in my opinion. For Pestilence, to be a perfect card, it should be:
Enchantment
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice ~.
Or, I think even better, like a crossover between Midnight Banshee and Pestilence:
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature.
At the beginning of the end step, if no creatures are on the battlefield, sacrifice ~.
Very controlly card for an aggro color. I will say I wish they had made it green, the built in synergy with fatties would have been stellar. Green is also hardest pressed to wipe out little threats such as mana dorks and royal assassins, and this would have done it. It's crazy how one card can shape a whole color's metagame.
"Tom" is a term that originated in the Time Spiral block that usually refers to cards that finally correct a perceived misplacement of an effect/ability that really "belongs" in one color (or that has experienced some other sort of color shift that brings the pie closer to what it "should" look like). The name "Tom" comes from Prodigal Pyromancer, who was given this nickname as a riff on "Tim," the nickname of Prodigal Sorcerer (which I think he got from Monty Python? I was never really clear on that). Before the introduction of "Tom" the unconditional, vanilla "ping" was most commonly printed on blue creatures, despite it feeling much more at home in red's slice of the pie.
This card might be considered a "Tom" in that sense because universal damage is much more commonplace in red than in black. However, I agree with 2097 that it has some problems, mostly stemming from the "at least one creature has to be out" disease angle. That feels very black, and as such this card feels like a cross between a "Tom" and a typical shifted card, with one half bringing red an effect that fits well within its pie, and the other introducing something foreign.