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Costs way too much for what it does. If you sink a bunch of creatures into a graveyard you ought to have won already.

4 mana is way too much for what could be a massive life gain?

Its really situational. Somecases it rocks, somtimes its almost useless. Personaly I perfer a lifegain that is consistent.

With a substantial manna base this can be pretty fun in a white green deck that's running Mirari's Wake. The turn goes something like this;

Folk Medicine, played twice for 3 G W, then attack with everything you've got (pressumably lots of tokens and 1/1 white soldiers), then play Toil to Renown.

Then give them a turn to try and recover from the onslaught. When its your turn again hit them with Wrath of God, or Day of Judgement, followed by Invigorating Falls and end by dropping Lhurgoyf.

I think this card has a home in EDH, Archenemy, and other multiplayer formats.

I suppose you could reasonably use this in a mill deck.

Nice art.

Run some mass destruction, something generic here, and I dunno, set up the most backwards and inefficient way to trigger Felidar Sovereign's win condition after you blinked the damn thing with something, some white exile bounce or Venser.

Something that stupid, I like it's style.

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Can be used efficiently in a non-mill deck with Mesmeric Orb.

@Silverware: You want lifegain that's consistent? Ok, just Imprint this onto Panoptic Mirror. Total cost = for, what, at least 10-20 Life gain every following your upkeep? Per player? (once in mid-llate game).
Without having to run a specific color or Elves?

Combos with Milling & Killing for awesome gain.