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Put it on the opponents big guy he's been saving to block your stuff.

I thought they stopped making crappy cards like this

Guess I was wrong

Nice bear in the art though

Seems good against Spellskite.

Commander Review: utter garbage. Risking card disadvantage to gain once a year 3 life. Ugh.. 0.5/5

Palace Guard combo against those pesky token decks! Just have Gideon Jura force them to attack!

Anyway, this card is truly terrible.

Not even limited-worthy. Now that's the sign of a true crappy card.

Easily the worst card in DKA.

Such a shame when good art gets wasted on chaff.

Why does this feel like a reprint? Isn't there a similar card in Homelands? Alliances?

The tragic thousandth human error happened at the WotC quality control and this slipped through. Favor of the Woods was meant to be the Green 13 card: "Whenever enchanted creature blocks, you gain 13 life". We got this because proofreading failed.

@ZEvilMustache: Gift of the Woods was what I thought of too. That one at least seemed playable at first.

Nope. When you control a permanent, and it produces an effect that says 'you', then 'you 'refers to that is the owner of that permanent. Your oppenent doesn't gain control of enchantments that enchant their creatures. Mind Control wouldn't do anything if that were the case..... Unless gaining control of an enchantment that enchants a creature you control was a triggered ability and went on the stack after the enchantment entered the battlefield... BUT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN WARGLE BARGLES!

I'd love to plonk this on an opponent's Fortress Crab. Stupid invincible crab. Then again people often run the crap when their milling you, and who cares about life when you're getting milled out. Maybe put it on Tree of Redemption? Gain life. Make huge tree. Sac to Feed the Pack? I dunno :P

Every now and then, I have flashbacks to Homelands and Fallen Empires when I look at Innistrad. Maybe it's the extreme focus on creature types, the mechanics that only work in block, or the feeling of doom that fills the set. And then I see stuff like this and wonder... This... thing... belongs in Homelands or Fallen Empires. It costs too much, does nothing, and seems proud of it. Wow!

@Dolorosa, sounds great, but even when you own the enchantment, if it's on a creature that the opponent controls, doesn't that mean that the opponent would benefit? If that was the case, you could cast Lifelink spells on your opponent's creatures to essentially give them Pacificsm.

EDIT: @Wraique, noted and thank you. I made the assumption after I attempted that while playing DoTP2012, resulting in the AI opponent gaining life.

Well, it's an aura, so it loses points there, but I found a certain joy in casting this on Elite Inquisitor.
Vigilance ftw

Apparently someone on the design/development team thought that cards like Viridian Harvest and Luminous Wake were undercosted. Even though those cards were very rarely played, even in Limited. Ugh. Surely there are ways of trying to prevent power creep that don't make you feel as bad as this card does.

@bfellow: Unfortunately, this will only trigger once per combat, and thus doesn't work with Palace Guard-type effects. It would have to say "Whenever enchanted creature blocks a creature" in order for that to work. So it's even more terrible than you think.

The next time they make a shout out to an old card like Gift of the Woods, they better make sure it's playable.

This could easily have been compared to this old card or Contaminated Bond.

the whole flavor text seems like it's referring to DKA going back to homelands
it shouldn't take long to realize why those kessigers were abandoned...

Is this one of R&D's less funny jokes?
Does a bear take a shit in the woods?

R&D Leader: Hey guys we are really pushing things with transform and 2 great planeswalkers, we need to make a bad card to fill some booster packs.

R&D Rebel: Another one?? Our fans pay hard earned money for a quality product, why do we keep wasting good card slots with bad ones???

**Gunshots**

R&D Leader: Okay, but seriously guys, we need some filler cards, what is the weakest card type, and weakest color in the game, and how do we make it worse?

R&D Follower: Auras, we could make Favor of the Woods cost and remove the additional stats. It will be really bad but not bad enough for people to catch on to us..

I have a few friends in high places (if you call being a store clerk for a comic shop a high place), and I usually buy booster packs from them.

I opened a DKA booster and finally found the most deceivingly bad boosters ever: two rares, one Jar of Eyeballs and a foil Seance with no Uncommon lords and a bunch of lack-luster common's: no Young Wolf's, no Tragic Slip's, no Evolving Wilds'.

I found this in there, and promptly threw it at my friend, saying, "Happy Birthday!".

He then legitimately thanked me and started to say how good of a card it was. My eyes then began to gloss over.

"Well, anytime you block, you gain 3 life! That's amazing!" he said.

"Ok, but it costs 3 CMC, it's an Aura, so it's one of the most easiest spells to dispose of, and the life-gain is determined by blocking, which could mean that you'll only get the ability once. Healing Salve is much better, and that's... well, Healing Salve."

"Hmm... whatever, it's still going into my EDH deck".

I then began to cry inside twice-fold: first because of that statement, and second because of crying about that.

Lowest rated card in Standard.

the crap version of luminous wake