I don't really understand why they put cards like this in the decks.. They could've reprinted something that actually deserved it.
ZeroSheep
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(13 votes)
Angel upskirt ftw.
Thrull_Champion
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(7 votes)
Clearly Greg, you never gained over 200 life with this card. Alas, such are rooks these days.
Kazuhiro
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I know how OP this is, but all the same, it's coming right out of my Kaalia deck. Lifegain? What is this nonsense.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Doesn't War Report make this almost obsolete?
NoobOfLore
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
War report only nets you 1 per creature or artifacts(even though artifact creatures count twice), whereas this gets you two for every creature. Also, this is more easily used for player politics, since you can heal an ally in a precarious position.
scumbling1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
"Doesn't War Report make this almost obsolete?"
No. In a vast majority of games, there are going to be more creatures on the board than non-creature artifacts. You'll usually gain more life from Congregate than from War Report.
NeoKoda
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Someone used this on me in FFA. I love politics.
durdent
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Exarch-Twin player: I cast Splinter Twin on my Deceiver Exarch. I create 1 billion tokens. All my creatures attack you. (smug smile, anticipates scoop) You: I cast Congregate before damage-dealing. I gain, hmmm... 2,000,000,002 life.
kiseki
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card kills much of the fun in a multiplayer setting when it comes out. On the Urza's side of this cards comments, someone posted that we should use more board sweepers. This card is most often used, in my experience, as a response to board wipers, leaving someone with a painful about of life (60-100+ is not uncommon). I don't want to kill every player in casual multiplayer by turn four, and if you know their deck has the card focusing on someone who hasn't put any power on the board is seen as puppy kicking. Cards like this create a catch-22 in those situations. You can't have fun because there is too much life to widdle down, or you can't have fun because your best friend got taken out in the first 20 minutes of a 2-hour game.
This is a classic example of an instant that should have been a sorcery. Can be so much fun mid combat when you have a pair of Kavu Predators coming in hot. It can also help you transform Chalice of Life a few phases before your turn.
This is one of the few "just gains you life" cards that is actually worth playing in multiplayer games, since you can often gain a massive amount of life from this one card, putting you out of range of death for awhile.
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Also, this is more easily used for player politics, since you can heal an ally in a precarious position.
No. In a vast majority of games, there are going to be more creatures on the board than non-creature artifacts. You'll usually gain more life from Congregate than from War Report.
You: I cast Congregate before damage-dealing. I gain, hmmm... 2,000,000,002 life.
On the Urza's side of this cards comments, someone posted that we should use more board sweepers. This card is most often used, in my experience, as a response to board wipers, leaving someone with a painful about of life (60-100+ is not uncommon). I don't want to kill every player in casual multiplayer by turn four, and if you know their deck has the card focusing on someone who hasn't put any power on the board is seen as puppy kicking. Cards like this create a catch-22 in those situations. You can't have fun because there is too much life to widdle down, or you can't have fun because your best friend got taken out in the first 20 minutes of a 2-hour game.
This is a classic example of an instant that should have been a sorcery.
Can be so much fun mid combat when you have a pair of Kavu Predators coming in hot.
It can also help you transform Chalice of Life a few phases before your turn.
What? What do you all mean, 'I'm not rich'? Pff.