Great card. 6 power for 6 mana is fine, one black to regenerate it is great too, and making them lose 6 while the champion is in play is even better. Not to mention that when you play False Cure when the champ gets finally killed, they lose another 6.
lord_of_obscurity
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Six mana for a card that deals six, just by coming into play is good. Six mana for a 6/3 with one mana regeneration is good. Six mana for a 6/3 with regeneration for one mana and deals six damage hwen it comes into play is crazy! 5/5
Furnace of Rath only doubles damage. The life loss from playing Champion isn't doubled, so that's "only" 18 life lost.
RisingZan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
My friends and I used to run a friendly all Black Halloween tournament. I made a deck that used 4 of these plus 4 Buried Alive, 4 Entomb, and several Living Death and Dance of the Dead. It probably needed some more tweaking but it was fairly effective.
mtear
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.9/5.0)(7 votes)
I don't like how it has an apostrophe THEN an "s" when it ends in "s". ENGLISH GRAMMAR FTW. Great card though.
Luke_BPC
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
The grammar is right, the apostrophe and s after a name that ends with s is used when you're refering to the name of a famous person or entity, in this case old Ambassador Laquatus
XTwistedsoulX
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of this dude in hand.... bloodbond march in play, buried alive cast, dumping the other 3 into the graveyard... 6x4=24 life loss.... usually a problem for most players.
powerdude
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
you can't get more badass then nightmare horror
Mister_Tapwater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wow, he's not even legendary. What a beating.
auriscope
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Belz_, Yeah, but if you can't have them below 19 by turn 6 you probably suck.
Snafinturtle
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
You could simply add wound reflection instead of the furnace, in which case, the life loss WOULD be doubled, however, i'll admit that the two extra mana for the reflection can be a little crippling since red/black is mana accel and not ramp...
Japicx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
With the Champion, why not use Rain of Gore instead of Wound Reflection?
Boakes2047
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Target your self when this comes into play. Next turn, play Sanguine Bond. Unless they see it coming and get rid of him before the Bond gets out, they wont want to remove him. Or if you don't care to lose him, just go with false cure.
GengilOrbios
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
brutal finisher for black... and since it won't die so soon because of the regeneration its really really strong 5/5
I understand this is farfetched, but it has happened before. This card is very good for a resurrection deck, no matter the speed. I just demonstrated the fastest speed it could go at.
ZerotheHero
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Combo this and any card that prevents life gain and this becomes a great life loss card on top of having a pretty reliable creature.
OmegaSerris
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@mtear No, this is correct. It is one of those weird exceptions to the rules of English that make it such a pain in the ass to pick up as a second language.
I don't see a legendary super-type, so use him in conjunction with a kicked Rite of Replication. Outright kill one person at full health and bring another down to half. since this a late game trick, more likely than not the second person will be killed as well, or at least be dangerously low on life.
@Japicx: Rain of Gore would not work, since your opponent doesn't control Laquatus's Champion. Of course, you could use a Bazaar Trader to "fix" that "problem." If you also run Sulfuric Vortex, you can make sure they can't gain the life back by killing it before you Donate it. (The combo will still work because you get to choose which replacement effect to use.)
Kirbster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
He was unbelievable in draft, where your opponent essentially had 14 life. Otherwise he's still very good - 6 power and cheap regeneration is never bad - but he can often finish your foe off just by showing up.
Taiomah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Damn. This is almost Titan strong.
atemu1234
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Unless I'm mistaken with MTG canon, shouldn't it be a Legendary Creature, called Burke?
Dream_Twist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love this card. It oozes black.
Only slight complaint : it's 3rd creature type should essentially be skeleton.
LandKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going.
Arachnos
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@majinara: Oh shit, that's pretty damn nasty.
tcollins
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Seems like a pretty worthy target for Mimic Vat, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and other similar effects... I'm sure just having him resolve has ended many games.
Man-O-Megrim
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh my dear friend. How have you been? It has been years since you and I shared our glory days at tournament tables with our classic combo: Dark Ritual + Buried Alive + Balthor the Defiled. Now all that separates us is time and dust...
This is really quite good, even by today's standards. If it was ever reprinted I could see it still having a major impact on Standard as a curve topper.
jonrds
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Blinking this could be fun. Deal 12 damage immediately and they can only gain back 6. Not that you should need the extra 6 damage by the time this rolls around.
Actually, now that I think about it, this could be really fun with a fast blink like cloudshift. You don't even need to cast it in response to him entering the battlefield. The "enters the battlefield" ability is put on the stack above the "leaves the battlefield" ability, so as long as they are at 6 or less health, they lose before they have a chance to gain the 6 life back (yay for losing being a state-based action now).
Pongdok
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Excellent finisher for a graveyard deck, obviously, and not so prohibitively costed that you can't run it in a normal deck. Really sticks it to a white griefer using Worship. He'll have nightmares about tentacles and darkness for the rest of his miserable life. 5/5
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Not to mention that when you play False Cure when the champ gets finally killed, they lose another 6.
Or, target yourself, Tainted Sigil or Children of Korlis or both to negate the damage and make people not want to kill your 6/3 awesome.
Furnace of Rath only doubles damage. The life loss from playing Champion isn't doubled, so that's "only" 18 life lost.
Great card though.
NOTE: I'm sorry, but it only works with Dark Ritual
Turn 1: Swamp, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Buried Alive (Bury 3 Champion's), Songs of the Damned, Songs of the Damned, Living Death
Turn 2: attack.
I understand this is farfetched, but it has happened before. This card is very good for a resurrection deck, no matter the speed. I just demonstrated the fastest speed it could go at.
No, this is correct. It is one of those weird exceptions to the rules of English that make it such a pain in the ass to pick up as a second language.
http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/apostro.asp (Rule 2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Singular_nouns_ending_with_an_.22s.22_or_.22z.22_sound
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/
Just takes a bit of googling. -_-
You could also target yourself and use Boon Reflection, Sanguine Bond, and Tainted Sigil...as if the latter two aren't dangerous enough already.
@Japicx: Rain of Gore would not work, since your opponent doesn't control Laquatus's Champion. Of course, you could use a Bazaar Trader to "fix" that "problem." If you also run Sulfuric Vortex, you can make sure they can't gain the life back by killing it before you Donate it. (The combo will still work because you get to choose which replacement effect to use.)
Only slight complaint : it's 3rd creature type should essentially be skeleton.
Actually, now that I think about it, this could be really fun with a fast blink like cloudshift. You don't even need to cast it in response to him entering the battlefield. The "enters the battlefield" ability is put on the stack above the "leaves the battlefield" ability, so as long as they are at 6 or less health, they lose before they have a chance to gain the 6 life back (yay for losing being a state-based action now).