Great in limited and may even get to see play in budget token decks. Love the art - Werewolf pwnage in the background.
RAV0004
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Soul Warden PLUS gather the townsfolk after fateful hour is active nets you the five humans in addition to five life, bumping your health past that five life death range. play with immolating souleater/tresspasser to nix your life to lower numbers when neaded. With New Phyrexia still in standard, I can see some devastating plays, and easy ways to make the lower life total either cancel out or be completely irrelevant.
MrBarrelRoll
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(9 votes)
Anyone else notice they have guns in the artwork?
ZEvilMustache
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Most exciting card in DKA.
MrBarrelRoll: I think those are crossbows. We've seen them elsewhere.
Shadoflaam
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I kind of wish it was instant speed, but that would be broken, eh? I don't even care about the Fateful Hour thing, I was gonna run 4 in Monowhite Humans and Pauper anyway! Second-best common in the set after Faithless Looting, although that doesn't mean much. 5/5
Hackworthy
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(9 votes)
The card is important but not as important as it's artwork. Here we see that while Innistrad has mostly been depicted with a mix of Medieval technology and Victorian style, they do in fact have guns.
GrimjawxRULES
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I had two Champion of the Parish on the battlefield, 5 life, and three of these in my hand at the prerelease. I can definitely see how the Human hate (Zombie Apocalypse among others) is justified, this card pretty much breaks the deck.
Atali
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
The perfect Fateful Hour card: a playable, solid spell normally, but it gets a +150% bonus when you're in a tight spot.
Gabriel422
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Scary card. But then again, unless they're aggro too, you probably won't dip below 5 life anyways... and RDW could always save burn spells for the last 5 points.
krauser-gogetthegirl
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
finally! Ive been looking for more stuff to run with mentor of the meek.
Most people have already mentioned Champion of the Parish, Mentor of the Meek, and Soul Warden with this. I can also see a deck using those cards as well as Village Cannibals, Unruly Mob, Skirsdag High Priest, Thraben Doomsayer, and/or Devouring Swarm. Bringing in tokens lets you draw cards and pump the Champion. Sac the tokens to the Swarm to pump the Mob and Cannibals and trigger the Priest for fatty fliers.
MagnaLynx21
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(2 votes)
Ever since this card was spoiled, right up until I opened it at the pre-release, I thought this was an instant. I was a bit disappointed, I've recently been spoiled by Raise The Alarm's appearance in the boros deck in Duels Of The Planeswalkers. However, not to say that it's bad, it's at sorcery speed for a reason and I can respect why, thus a solid and reliable card either way.
Radagast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Flat out better than Dragon Fodder (barring comparisons between Goblins and Humans), so it is pretty good to me.
The_Stray
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This card rocks my socks on toast. / Tokens with this as the 2 drop is insane.
And the Fateful Hour ability is very, very relevant. It swings games.
Dolorosa
★★★★☆ (5.0/5.0)(26 votes)
"The hounds of Hell are on our doorstep! Quickly! Round up everyone you can! On this day, the entire village must stand together to hold back the creeping darkness! WE WILL NOT FALL!"
2 people show up.
Cyberium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Gather everyone!
(Vampires, demons, and dragons waiting impatiently for their dinner.)
I have but one thing to say for the Fateful Hour mechanic: Form of the Dragon. Casual ownage, here I come!
EDIT: After having played my Dragon Cult Fateful Hour deck a few times, I've found that it exceeds expectations. I even survived an infinite Pyromantics combo by playing a Faith's Shield when I got to 5 life, and just watched the fireworks, then swung for the win.
Serecin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of my favourite cards.
I think it's a perfect card in form and function.
Will be a good turn 2 on the way to casting Odric, Master Tactician.
Geistmage7
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Stop with the comparisons to dragon fodder. Can humans be sacrificed to goblin grenade? Can your friends repeatedly make you groan with {fodder launch? I didn't think so. Humans have better tribal recently, but with the amount of shenanigans goblin decks get up to in past sets, no one should compare this to dragon fodder.
Works great as a follow up to Parish Champion and before Odric in a human white weenie deck!
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm thinking these would be good with Tainted Sigil, mostly if you use Immolating Souleater as a beater in the same deck. You pay a bunch of life, swing for 8-10. Play this and the sigil (or already have the sigil out) and get 5 dudes and gain 8-10 life for your troubles (probably)
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Excellent progression with Champion of the Parish.
Love the art - Werewolf pwnage in the background.
play with immolating souleater/tresspasser to nix your life to lower numbers when neaded. With New Phyrexia still in standard, I can see some devastating plays, and easy ways to make the lower life total either cancel out or be completely irrelevant.
MrBarrelRoll: I think those are crossbows. We've seen them elsewhere.
I don't even care about the Fateful Hour thing, I was gonna run 4 in Monowhite Humans and Pauper anyway!
Second-best common in the set after Faithless Looting, although that doesn't mean much.
5/5
Turn 1: Champion of the Parish
Turn 2: Gather the Townsfolk, beat face with your 3/3 dude.
Turn 4: Thraben Doomsayer or Lingering Souls, and a whole ton of chump blockers/face beaters.
And the Fateful Hour ability is very, very relevant. It swings games.
2 people show up.
(Vampires, demons, and dragons waiting impatiently for their dinner.)
EDIT: After having played my Dragon Cult Fateful Hour deck a few times, I've found that it exceeds expectations. I even survived an infinite Pyromantics combo by playing a Faith's Shield when I got to 5 life, and just watched the fireworks, then swung for the win.
I think it's a perfect card in form and function.
Will be a good turn 2 on the way to casting Odric, Master Tactician.
Humans have better tribal recently, but with the amount of shenanigans goblin decks get up to in past sets, no one should compare this to dragon fodder.
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