Very funny card, when people use Beacon of Immortality. I also got a black white deck, where I use False Cure, together with Life Burst and Laquatus' Champion to great effect.
Note that if you play two false cure in one turn, the effect is not doubled but tripled. The opponent still gains 1 life by whatever lifegain effect was played, and then loses 4 for each life gain that way (2 from each false cure).
Elysiume
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
It would only be a turn 1 win if you could manage to play 4 Skyshroud Cutters. For every life they gain, they lose 2, effectively making them lose instead of gain life. That said, a hand of Overgrown Tomb, Dark Ritual, False Cure, and any combination that was four of Skyshroud Cutter and Reverent Silence, and you could win of turn 1, with or without the draw.
KillerWhiskey
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(11 votes)
Phage looks funny on the picture. She's like:"Hey there, Jimmy! Up for coffee and cookies?"
touchdown
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
It's time to reprint this card. Lifegain is out of control.
allmighty_abacus
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Please come back my beloved : (
ForOfTrumps
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is a hilarious counter to Chant of Vitu-Gazhi.
Thinking about this in conjunction with Transcendence makes my brain hurt.
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(8 votes)
I know anything referencing Isochron Scepter is cliche and obvious, but this would be hilarious in stick form. It would be like the anti-lifegain taser.
Personally my favourite combo is with Congregate, making Congregate double as an offensive spell: a great killer in a multiplayer game.
andoroth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
multiplayer games would be sooo much fun with this card! me- I'll play Hunters' Feast... Opponents- :D me - and then i'll play False Cure! Opponents- D:
Axelle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Make an enchantment version, and this Johnny will be satisfied.
Transcendence says "whoops, you just broke the game."
(Actually, I suspect it says "you lose the game while False Cure's ability is on the stack once your life total gets above 20", but where's the fun in that? Go find a Platinum Angel, I guess).
Mike-C
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@Majinara: Dude.. The EFFECT is not tripled.. For that to be true they'd have to lose 6 life for every 1.. The number of life is cubed. The effect is doubled..
Gargantula
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I like the skyshroud cutter and rain of gore suggestions. I'm going to build a deck around effects that give other people life and punishing them for that. Because that's the type of deck I like to build.
divinewind08
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Mike-C Uhm...no, the life lost is not cubed. If it cubed the life loss, gaining 5 life would result in 125 life lost. Majinara is correct. The effect of this card (losing life when attempting to gain it) is tripled (as in the life lost as a result is tripled). Using the five life example, if a player would gain five life, that player does so and then both False Cures cause the player to lose 10 life each. 5-(10+10)=15. With only one, it would go as follows: 5-10=5. And as I'm sure we all know, 15/5=3. So, if you are going to criticize people on the term's that they use, be sure that you have your OWN term's correct.
ThePieManOfDeath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
One of the most stupidly broken cards I've seen. Anyone who tries to use Beacon of Immortality is instantly dead.
wholelottalove
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
If I could use this card to win the game, it would be fing HIL-AR-IOUS.
Silver-Paladin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wall of Shards. Wait until the lifegain would double their current, put the Cumulative Upkeep on the stack, False Cure, have fun.
RunedServitor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The best thing to respond to Exsanguinate with in a multiplayer game.
Averyck
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Alms Beast says so long, and thanks for all the fish.
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This could use a reprint
4/5 Stars
adamsos1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So what happens if I'M running the lifegain deck and gain a few life with a purity on the field then I play this?
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Runedservitor: Well, people mostly cast Exsanguinate as a win condition so sure you'd kill the caster but you'd still die and if everybody died, the game would draw.
JarieSuicune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fortunately, this is Lose Life, not Damage, so doesn't infi-loop (or even interact) with cards like Purity. But that would be hilarious, since they'd just trigger off each other forever, lowering your life points down to "Negative Infinity".
Combos with opponent's (or own) Exsanguinate, immediately followed up with Angel's Grace, followed up with a truly evil laugh.
orzhov20
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You know, Pharika is the goddess of poison and medicine. Maybe this will be reprinted in Journey into Nyx with this flavor text "you gave me a poison, not a potion!" "eh, potato potato" (jk on the flavor text)
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since the lifegain replaces the mana cost, all you need is a land (at best Bayou or Overgrown Tomb) and another mana souce (like Dark Ritual or Lotus Petal).
Note that if you play two false cure in one turn, the effect is not doubled but tripled. The opponent still gains 1 life by whatever lifegain effect was played, and then loses 4 for each life gain that way (2 from each false cure).
"Ajani's Mantra again, huh? BZZZZZZTTT!"
A deck like this can win turn one semi consistently. And by turn two or three most of the time
http://www.mtgvault.com/ViewDeck.aspx?DeckID=168497
me- I'll play Hunters' Feast...
Opponents- :D
me - and then i'll play False Cure!
Opponents- D:
way too fun
add berserk to double the fun
(Actually, I suspect it says "you lose the game while False Cure's ability is on the stack once your life total gets above 20", but where's the fun in that? Go find a Platinum Angel, I guess).
4/5 Stars
But that would be hilarious, since they'd just trigger off each other forever, lowering your life points down to "Negative Infinity".
Combos with opponent's (or own) Exsanguinate, immediately followed up with Angel's Grace, followed up with a truly evil laugh.
"you gave me a poison, not a potion!"
"eh, potato potato"
(jk on the flavor text)
-Swag_Crow