nice card better than doom blade but not as powerful inside of RTR
lorendorky
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Give it Rakdos or Golgari or even guildless flavor but don't put freakin' Orzhov in here when I want more relevant flavor.
Avensai
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(6 votes)
I appreciate the reminder that the other guilds besides the five featured in RTR are still operating. Also, this may become the new Go for the Throat, even if it doesn't hit some really relevant gold creatures like Huntmaster of the Fells or any of the Guild leaders. Say what you wish, but this is the cheapest piece of removal in the block. Gone are the days of Dismember and Doom Blade. Black mages are just going to have to find more creative ways to Murder one another, I guess.
Merlin117
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Very focused creature removal for a "low" price. Sideboard for sure in monoblack control.
Goatllama
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Another great potential legend, The Cozen. Let's hope he (it?) doesn't go the way of Geralf.
Still, a great, focused kill spell, as Merlin117 said. And it's definitely still a valid choice in any black mage's arsenal.
Ferlord
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(3 votes)
No no no no!
Have any of you played this during the Prerelease?
This card was exceptionally hard to play! There are way too many cards that couldn't be targeted at all, and they were to most dangerous ones! Auger Spree, as weird as it is, was easier to play.
The best thing that this could've killed was Deadbridge Goliath, and your opponent won't be sore when that dies.
It is nowhere close to Go for the Throat. In fact, this is strictly worse, considering that it can't kill Artifact creatures anyway (since they don't have a colour).
I suppose Black Removal was at it's peak right before Return (with Doom Blade, Go for the Throat, Dismember, Murder, Geth's Verdict, and Tragic Slip) and we're just spoiled, but people should not consider this to be better than any of the removal spells played in the last standard block.
GruesomeGoo
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Very strong removal. The name seems a little unfitting for the card, (I'd have preferred something like "Cull the Guildless" or something) but still strong and well designed.
Domak
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
@Ferlord I found this card very useful during the pre-release. While the best creatures were in fact multi-colored it was ALWAYS worth having this in hand to cut my enemy's board down a bit.
BilliamQ
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Solid removal, but the real reason I'm here is to upvote Goatllama's comment. I was SO P1SSED when Geralf didn't get a card... maybe if/when they return to Innistrad...
Gcrudaplaneswalker
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Excellent sideboard material, considering we lost Doom Blade and mono-colored creatures are often seen, even in Ravnica.
shotoku64
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
As of the release of return to ravnica, there is a total of 61 multicolored creatures against 530 monocolored creatures in standard. So that equals 10% of the total creatures in standard are multicolored, I'm pretty sure the odds are in your favor that this will hit whatever you want, especially considering that there are no multicolored tokens
hottychick88
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(10 votes)
Go for the Throat 1B Instant Choose one - destroy target multicolored creature or Ultimate Price target monocolored creature.
In the grand scheme of Standard, this card is very good removal. A great replacement for the aforementioned Go for the Throat.
However, in RtR limited, I've found it's hard to cast. A lot of Ravnica's good creatures are multicolored, so it's viable targets are on a short list.
Overall, it's Standard viability make it a solid workhorse of a removal spell.
TheWrathofShane
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Go for the Throat is stronger. Most of the time, this is not going to hit an artifact creature anyways. Go for the throat will take care of most monocolored creatures, and multicolored creatures, with the only exception being artifact creatures that have color to them. This is a decent card, but that just gos to show you how strong Go for the Throat was.
Diachronos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's not as bad as some would think. Yes, it's in the first set in years to come with more than a single-digit number of multicolor creatures, but there's still the fact that many of the cards that see a lot of play in Standard now aren't from RtR, meaning they're mono-color.
Not as versatile as GftT, Doom Blade, or Tragic Slip, but it's still something that's at least sideboard material.
Opined_Fluke
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love the way the restrictions on the 2 mana kill spell are branching out! What else will we see? Target non-homelands creature? Target non-brushwagg creature? Target non-female creature?
Moxxy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If you look at top deck lists you'll notice that almost none of them use multicolor creatures in standard right now and a few even use this card. This deserves to at least be above 4.
drecoterie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
When clone's enter the battlefield ability triggers would ultimate price be able to target it while it is still a clone?
handoflazav_414
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
should be Dimir, but we aren't complaining. Just have to look over that flavor text. *whistles* ... Oh, WHY oh WHY, Orzhov? We never *sob* did anything to you! Just *sob* tried to take over your world once or twice but that's just business! No need to *sob* steal our assassin stuff! *sob*
May Master forgive us...
chrome_dome
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(2 votes)
4/5. Coveted removal in limited and possible constructed applications.
Antsache
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
@ drecoterie
No, you couldn't hit Clone before it copied a multicolored creature. Clone's ability takes effect the moment Clone resolves and doesn't provide players with an opportunity to respond. Similarly, if you want to kill it by leaving it nothing to copy, you have to take out all potential targets before it resolves.
If Clone's ability used the stack and allowed an opportunity to respond, Clone wouldn't work. State-based actions would be checked after Clone resolved but before its ability took effect, see that it had zero toughness, and then Clone would die without ever being able to copy something.
azure_drake222222
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Ultimate Price (Not the Return to Ravnica Version) {1B}
Destroy target creature that costs over $1. If that creature costs over $10, its controller loses 6 life.
steev
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If an assassin told me his name was "The Cozen" I would laugh through my slit throat. Then he would feel real bad about how his mom didn't name him good.
troll_berserker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@hottychick: That's a gross oversimplification. Go for the Throat doesn't hit multicolored artifact creatures nor "Ultimate Prices" monocolored artifact creatures. And while this card is certainly worse than Go for the Throat and arguably Doom Blade, it's not strictly worse than either of them, or both of them put together for that matter. Think of creatures like Vault Skirge and Salvage Titan.
O0oze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
go for the throat is almost strictly better, since artifacts are usually colorless, and therefore impossible to target with ultimate price.
This card seems damn good now that Devotion decks have taken over Standard. Even better, one of them is Black Devotion, which makes Doom Blade go cry in a corner. Of course, it doesn't hit Nightveil Specter, but then again neither does Doom Blade.
I can see Red being very happy in rogue decks soon.
bleedingreen925
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
With all the mono-blue and mono-black devotion decks dominating standard now (it kills everything except Nightveil Specter but that's what Abrupt Decay is for), and even gruul monsters and jund mirror matchups making heavy use of Polukranos, Desecration Demon and Stormbreath Dragon, this card is easily a 4-of in the mainboard.
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Sideboard for sure in monoblack control.
Still, a great, focused kill spell, as Merlin117 said. And it's definitely still a valid choice in any black mage's arsenal.
Have any of you played this during the Prerelease?
This card was exceptionally hard to play! There are way too many cards that couldn't be targeted at all, and they were to most dangerous ones! Auger Spree, as weird as it is, was easier to play.
The best thing that this could've killed was Deadbridge Goliath, and your opponent won't be sore when that dies.
It is nowhere close to Go for the Throat. In fact, this is strictly worse, considering that it can't kill Artifact creatures anyway (since they don't have a colour).
I suppose Black Removal was at it's peak right before Return (with Doom Blade, Go for the Throat, Dismember, Murder, Geth's Verdict, and Tragic Slip) and we're just spoiled, but people should not consider this to be better than any of the removal spells played in the last standard block.
Instant
Choose one - destroy target multicolored creature or Ultimate Price target monocolored creature.
Uhhh...no multicolored tokens in Standard? Grove of the Guardian.
In the grand scheme of Standard, this card is very good removal. A great replacement for the aforementioned Go for the Throat.
However, in RtR limited, I've found it's hard to cast. A lot of Ravnica's good creatures are multicolored, so it's viable targets are on a short list.
Overall, it's Standard viability make it a solid workhorse of a removal spell.
Not as versatile as GftT, Doom Blade, or Tragic Slip, but it's still something that's at least sideboard material.
What else will we see? Target non-homelands creature? Target non-brushwagg creature? Target non-female creature?
*whistles*
...
Oh, WHY oh WHY, Orzhov? We never *sob* did anything to you! Just *sob* tried to take over your world once or twice but that's just business! No need to *sob* steal our assassin stuff! *sob*
May Master forgive us...
No, you couldn't hit Clone before it copied a multicolored creature. Clone's ability takes effect the moment Clone resolves and doesn't provide players with an opportunity to respond. Similarly, if you want to kill it by leaving it nothing to copy, you have to take out all potential targets before it resolves.
If Clone's ability used the stack and allowed an opportunity to respond, Clone wouldn't work. State-based actions would be checked after Clone resolved but before its ability took effect, see that it had zero toughness, and then Clone would die without ever being able to copy something.
Destroy target creature that costs over $1. If that creature costs over $10, its controller loses 6 life.
i think the really interesting question is:
whos better, ultimate price or doom blade?
I can see Red being very happy in rogue decks soon.