Pointed Discussion

Goes great with stasis and winter orb to make you the most annoying player in a game.

If you have a way to consistently control the amount of permanents on the field, either with sacrificing outlets or with removal, this card can be a powerhouse.

I use it in my mono-red EDH deck to have another way to double my mana along with Gauntlet of Power and Extraplanar Lens, since I can't afford a Gauntlet of Might.

People will physically throw you out of EDH games for this sort of shenanigans. Still fun.

It's mostly nice to stop and count every permanent in play. Sloooowly. Even if nothing's changed since last turn.

Your opponent should concede eventually.

Despotic Scepter.

You should hope that if you get the bonus, you just win that turn.

I gave this a 3/5 back in february 2009.

Now that this card's rating is even lower when i think about it again, i think this might be worth a 3.5.
All you need for it to work is a card that you can reliably switch from the battlefield to somewhere else, e.g. by using flicker effects. Or you could either use a sac outlet and/or a token maker.

If you have control of whether the effect works out or fires backwards, this can become more than just a potentially unreliable Gauntlet of Might - if you play against other monored decks, particularly if they don't run many instants, you can screw up their turn pretty badly as well.

I was thinking this could be good in a Prossh Commander deck since you have the sac outlet/token generator built in to your commander and giving those Kobolds an attack wouldn't be a bad thing. Of course if it ever goes against you your Kobold army is wiped away.

Guys. Don't listen to the text. The card in no way cares about the number of permanents, only odd/even. Count off when it enters play and get a coin; heads is even, tails odd, and flip it over each time a card enters/leaves.

I saw a player use this with artifact walls and sac outlets. When the moment was right he would fireball for large LARGE amounts.