The highest human toughness without help is 4, I believe.
So, no.
Paladin85
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Too expensive, should have at least made it an instant
Though the art is rather...disturbing. The Red Skull must have been revived
lorendorky
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Bad art and effect
Minus_Prime
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Latest entry from the template 5-mana common mono-black sorceries that can destroy black creatures and then maybe get a bonus. Weed Strangle did this better and had a pseudo-scry attached. Also compare with Gloomlance and Spread the Sickness.
Vividice
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(9 votes)
Unconditional Lifegain, Lower CMC, Anti-Regeneration clause... So many ways to make this card not THAT bad... and yet it sees print as... thisabomination.
Toquinha1977
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
If no other removal spells are available in draft/sealed, this card might see use, but when you have Doom Blade, Go For the Throat, Dismember, or Victim of the Night, you can do better.
majinara
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Commander Review: sucks. The "human" part will nearly never matter. And if it does, the little bit of lifegain won't be that important either. Not to forget it's sorcery speed and five mana, yuck... 1/5
Lord_of_the_Real
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
"Doctor, how bad is it?" "It's bad." ... "Is there any chance of recovery?" "No, and if we're not careful, we could spread the sickness." "That's awful!"
CastleOrange
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This card crushes in limited. Every time I casted it, I won. Blew out a geist honored monk and other great things. There are so many humans in this block.
SeiberTross
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
This is a great limited card. Fantastic power level for a common.
Removal in Dark Ascension and Innistrad is more expensive, but that doesn't depower it for the limited crowd. This often will ditch a huge threat, and be worth every bit of 5 mana.
Splizer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The flavour text should have been "MMMPH, mmmrrmmphhh, MMMMPPPHHHH, mmhmmhrrrmmph, MMMRRRPPHH-SNAP!"
Actually no, that's too dark.
bfugitive
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Great limited card. Its current rating doesn't reflect that. The ISD draft format needed removal, kids. Trust me.
blindthrall
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(5 votes)
I had that same look on my face when I saw this jank. I really hate cards that only work in-block.
drpvfx
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Meh. This card would be even less well received if Limited formats didn't exist. At that cost and sorcery speed, this is too ridiculous to use in any constructed format (maybe EDH if you just really need another kill spell?).
Vastly inferior to Sever the Bloodline, from the same block. I get that it's common and shouldn't be as good, but look at Tragic Slip and tell me this isn't garbage in the same set, rarity, and color.
@NoobOfLore- you are forgetting cards that let you destroy *any* permanent, or exile creatures. Off the top of my head, this is utter trash compared to Vindicate, Maelstrom Pulse, Mortify, Putrefy, Wrecking Ball, Unmake, and the Standard-legal Beast Within and Sever the Bloodline, which, as I mentioned before, is from the same block, costs 1 less, EXILES, and can potentially hit more than one threat.
This card is inferior to almost every alternative in Constructed, unless you happen to be fighting a mirror match where Sever could actually hurt you.
TL;DR- totally draftable, but this has no place in a Constructed deck.
Radagast
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Horribly... 5 cost, sorcery speed... oh, but it helps against Humans, not that anyone cares. Okay, in Limited, it is better than nothing, but still... bleh!
NoobOfLore
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
There are better. Not many at common, though, not for unconditional destruction.
Tiggurix
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What puzzles me is why this gains human related bonuses when Death affects all living creatures equally.
Still, it is nice to have something that has not requirements at all. This still isn't as good as Sever the Bloodline, and the cost makes this almost impossible to put in despite its lack of restrictions. But I just love matches with my Zombie constructed deck when I find out the opponent put a multiple copies of Doom Blade and Victim of Night in their deck.
A little bit of tweaking and this might actually be playable; 1 less cost, as an instant would do it for me at least.
Ferlord
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
@ blindthrall I agree, but we can't all have what we want.
if we always got the cards that could fit into every format, we'd just be playing 4 sets of Magic 2012 in each block and whatnot: That's the set where standard, normal, "can be put into many decks" kind of cards come from. It's the base which a block uses to support their own strategies and styles.
Mind you, This is in no rights a good card, and it shouldn't have had such a high CMC. 4 may have been acceptable.
1/5.
RedAtrocitus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Come sweet Death, one last caress.
DaJoshMaster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ThisisSakon Nope not 4 in any format. Zhou Yu, Chief Commander has 8 in legacy, Auriok Survivors has 6 in Standard and Hanweir Watchkeep has 5 in Block. Although your point is still reasonably vaild. :P Though this is meant to be limited jank.
barbakki
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I can just imagine that hand saying, "There there, it's okay."
Alienblaster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That probably her own hand, and the reason she's making the face is because her hand really smells bad like rotting flesh. I wonder whey, eh?
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yeah.. But tell me the red skeleton hand wouldn't make a bada$$ mask! :D
gut.gemacht
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Strictly worse than toilet paper, which can at least be used to wipe your ass.
Comments (29)
So, no.
Though the art is rather...disturbing. The Red Skull must have been revived
"It's bad."
...
"Is there any chance of recovery?"
"No, and if we're not careful, we could spread the sickness."
"That's awful!"
Removal in Dark Ascension and Innistrad is more expensive, but that doesn't depower it for the limited crowd. This often will ditch a huge threat, and be worth every bit of 5 mana.
Actually no, that's too dark.
This card would be even less well received if Limited formats didn't exist.
At that cost and sorcery speed, this is too ridiculous to use in any constructed format
(maybe EDH if you just really need another kill spell?).
Vastly inferior to Sever the Bloodline, from the same block.
I get that it's common and shouldn't be as good,
but look at Tragic Slip and tell me this isn't garbage in the same set, rarity, and color.
@NoobOfLore- you are forgetting cards that let you destroy *any* permanent, or exile creatures.
Off the top of my head, this is utter trash compared to Vindicate, Maelstrom Pulse, Mortify, Putrefy, Wrecking Ball, Unmake, and the Standard-legal Beast Within and Sever the Bloodline, which, as I mentioned before, is from the same block, costs 1 less, EXILES, and can potentially hit more than one threat.
This card is inferior to almost every alternative in Constructed,
unless you happen to be fighting a mirror match where Sever could actually hurt you.
TL;DR- totally draftable, but this has no place in a Constructed deck.
Not many at common, though, not for unconditional destruction.
How many of you run Consume Spirit etc? o_O
Still, it is nice to have something that has not requirements at all. This still isn't as good as Sever the Bloodline, and the cost makes this almost impossible to put in despite its lack of restrictions. But I just love matches with my Zombie constructed deck when I find out the opponent put a multiple copies of Doom Blade and Victim of Night in their deck.
A little bit of tweaking and this might actually be playable; 1 less cost, as an instant would do it for me at least.
I agree, but we can't all have what we want.
if we always got the cards that could fit into every format, we'd just be playing 4 sets of Magic 2012 in each block and whatnot: That's the set where standard, normal, "can be put into many decks" kind of cards come from. It's the base which a block uses to support their own strategies and styles.
Mind you, This is in no rights a good card, and it shouldn't have had such a high CMC. 4 may have been acceptable.
1/5.
Although your point is still reasonably vaild. :P Though this is meant to be limited jank.