If it would have been instant, it would be a strong card in limited. Now it's just meh.
SkyknightXi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
Adding a step of power to Consume Strength requires...another *3* mana? Is WotC SURE about the metrics they used for this?
EDIT: And now I notice that this is a sorcery, rather than the instant Consume Strength was. Something's DEFINITELY up with the metrics...
DoragonShinzui
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
...Okay, if you want to triple the effect of Leech Life (An already mediocre card), you don't TRIPLE THE COST and slow it down.
I mean, for christ's sake, you guys have already printed Cankerous Thirst. That card was meh at best. This is just...insulting.
chainsmoker
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Uncommon? Oh come on! For a moment, I thought Nissa was back.
Lotsofpoopy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.9/5.0)(6 votes)
If this is used correctly like how pros like me will use it, you will get a 6 power/toughness swing!
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Thought it said, "Dovahkin elf"
Sorry.
rollinsclone
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Maybe if it was an instant.....
pedrodyl
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This being a sorcery greatly limits its playability in limited
majinara
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Playable in limited, horrible in costructed. Consume strength was good, since it allowed two for ones for just three mana, while beeing an instant. Six mana is far too expensive.
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Your probably made a face just like the elf on the artwork when you compared this card to Consume Strength.
Okuu-chan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"I can't believe they used my art for such a bad card." The guy who designed this card probably desired an early grave.
RAV0004
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Savra? Is that you? Please take the guild leadership back from your ass ugly brother.
ToAsTy42o
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
nah, too much for not enough. i'd rather put down a fatty for 6. if this was cmc4 (but still a sorcery), it'd be playable
Magnor_Criol
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
As said, it's not worth a second look past the Limited tables, but in Limited this is expensive but reasonable. Removal is still removal, and -3/-3 will kill quite a few creatures you care about. It's a shame this isn't a sorcery but you can still get good value out of this by using the buff to make their blocking choices awful, or killing their only blocker so you can swing in unopposed (and then it doesn't really matter it's not an instant).
Because Cankerous Thirst was just too good, we needed to make it a sorcery, increase the cost by {2} and make the colors less flexible.
Love, WotC
OpenSeasonNoobs
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is really good in draft. It's almost always a 2 for 1, and it's a REALLY good bomb for Rakdos. Splashing green for a 6 drop actually makes it easier to include. You get to shoot a dude and pump your Rakdos Cackler to a 5/5 who will almost always trade or get chumped.
Lord_of_Gelectrodes
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@rollinsclone Bro, do you even draft?
swords_to_exile
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Strictly worse than Cankerous Thirst, like, in every conceivable way. Costs more Always multicolor Mandatory targets Sorcery Same rarity. If this had been a common I could understand, but this is terribad.
Subtle_Kay
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It should cost {1}{B}{G}, and be an instant, because it's just a Last Gasp put together with a Giant Growth. To make it cost double that is just crazy.
corkscrew
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
...anyone else spot the anagram in the flavor text? If you rearrange the letters in the word "Devkarin", you get "Dark Vine". Clever, WotC. Very clever.
Vogie
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Because the Golgari need ANOTHER overpriced way to make their creatures bigger at sorcery speed.
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EDIT: And now I notice that this is a sorcery, rather than the instant Consume Strength was. Something's DEFINITELY up with the metrics...
I mean, for christ's sake, you guys have already printed Cankerous Thirst. That card was meh at best. This is just...insulting.
For a moment, I thought Nissa was back.
Sorry.
Love,
WotC
Bro, do you even draft?
Costs more
Always multicolor
Mandatory targets
Sorcery
Same rarity. If this had been a common I could understand, but this is terribad.