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Frantic Purification

Multiverse ID: 29841

Frantic Purification

Comments (10)

AlphaNumerical
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (4 votes)
Bad even for its madness cost.
mrredhatter
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
Lateralis0ne
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0) (4 votes)
It's a Demystify for its madness cost. And you're right. It's still bad.
A3Kitsune
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (4 votes)
Would it have been too powerful if it destroyed target artifact or enchantment at that madness cost? Or if it just destroyed target enchantment but had a madness cost of 0?
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
DUMBLEDORE!
Cloudchaser.Kestrel
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I see this working well with spirit cairn or some other discard card
HellkatOverlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Strictly worse than Erase. (the urza's legacy one)
Mike-C
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Guess I'm the only one so far that liked the flavor text enough to say it, huh? Any whoo.. Pretty awesome :)
Kelther
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Bog Witch. This. Use the three mana to play that Haakon, Stromgald Scourge you dredged using Stinkweed Imp. Card advantage is better than a Demystify, if the situation arises.

Nothing I know of is "strictly better" than this. If you can find a way to pay a cost by discarding a card and then PLAYING that card in your deck, this card has some uses.
MacBizzle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Madness cards cannot be so easily compared to their non-Madness counterparts. I would like to introduce everyone to three things: Card Advantage, alternative casting costs and "Discard a card from your hand:". (Note the colon, free abilities are great.)

I would call this and Fiery Temper better than Demystify and Lightning Bolt, but I also would build synergistic decks that have a real focus when using the former. If a non-Melvin built a deck, he'd prefer the latter, and the latter would probably work better for him.

Regarding the card: it sucks. But I'll take what I can get. White only has two Madness cards.