Oracle said this is for opponents but the card reads "target player." Couldn't I use this on myself to drop a huge creature into my graveyard early on and then play a Reanimate?
Really good, and you get to do it a second time when your creature dies, at which point you'll have a better idea of what he's packing. Better than duress.
Malnourished_Student
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Cadenblade.
Yes, yes you could. And I intend to do just that. Eldrazi here I come!
Turn 1: Swamp -> Dark Ritual -> Cabal Therapy (Yourself) -> Exhume -> Cake!
With the tiny change of exhume to avoid the life-loss of reanimate. At turn 1 your opponent will unlikely have a creature to put out too.
The_Trendkill
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
It's so ironic that the best discard spell since Hymn to Tourach was in a set that was supposed to be anti-black.
MrCleric
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the best discarding spells best used with unearthing creatures like rotting rats or sedrixs spector... So u killed my spector well next turn I will swing 3 u discard a card than flash back discard what ever left:P..
Use with Duress or something similar so you know what he has in his hand. Use the flashback to sacrifice your Abyssal Persecutor when your opponent is at 0 or less life and is desperately holding on to his counterspell to prevent you from removing it :)
ZirilanoftheClaw
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This + telepathy + festering goblin telepathy, you know exactly when to cast this Then when you need to block do so with festering goblin and sac him in response to the therapies flash back cost, playing the therapy a second time And when festering goblin goes to graveyard target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn
I'll leave it to you guys on how to figure it out. haha, I didn't get it the first time either.
tcollins
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@ZiralanoftheClaw:
I have two words for you that ruins your diabolical scheme....sorcery speed
Challenge_Accepted
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It is obviously very good, but sometimes I don't know what to call. If i play it in dredge, what do i blindly call? Force of Will?
OmegaSerris
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(10 votes)
Should have cantripped if you got it wrong. Then it would have been perfect for Go Fish.
"Do you have a Jace?" "Go Fish" "Damn it." -Draws a card-
Chamale
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I play 4 of this card in my Vintage deck. I almost always name Force of Will, and then I flash this back (or cast another Cabal Therapy) to safely remove the biggest threat from their hand.
stille_nacht
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@ challenge accepted- call out whatever would be most annoying/possibly end the game. also, if you got iona, call out whatever would kill her thats not of the color you chose ex: elephant grass, etc.
DacenOctavio
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Gitaxian Probe into this. Duress takes valuable mana. Probe om noms only a little bit of life. And that only matters vs. Burn.
ZestuXIII
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@challenge_accepted
Generally, if you know your decks, you should either already have a good idea on what your opponent is playing either on the draw first turn, or before hand. So, if they drop, say a Dryad Arbor off the bat, then you can be reasonably sure they're either playing Bant or NO . So the first thing I would call is going to be Natural Order. If it turns out thats not the case, then I know to alter my game plan. Or cast another therapy to kill their Deeds or their Goyf, or in Dredge's case (I play this in my Ravager Affinity), their GY Hate/Sac Engines. All in all, this is an extremely flexible card that can be tailored to its users need.
For that, 5/5.
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And @cadenblade: Yes.
Yes, yes you could. And I intend to do just that. Eldrazi here I come!
Turn 1: Swamp -> Dark Ritual -> Cabal Therapy (Yourself) -> Exhume -> Cake!
With the tiny change of exhume to avoid the life-loss of reanimate. At turn 1 your opponent will unlikely have a creature to put out too.
So u killed my spector well next turn I will swing 3 u discard a card than flash back discard what ever left:P..
telepathy, you know exactly when to cast this
Then when you need to block do so with festering goblin and sac him in response to the therapies flash back cost, playing the therapy a second time
And when festering goblin goes to graveyard target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn
I'll leave it to you guys on how to figure it out. haha, I didn't get it the first time either.
I have two words for you that ruins your diabolical scheme....sorcery speed
"Do you have a Jace?"
"Go Fish"
"Damn it." -Draws a card-
call out whatever would be most annoying/possibly end the game. also, if you got iona, call out whatever would kill her thats not of the color you chose
ex: elephant grass, etc.
Generally, if you know your decks, you should either already have a good idea on what your opponent is playing either on the draw first turn, or before hand. So, if they drop, say a Dryad Arbor off the bat, then you can be reasonably sure they're either playing Bant or NO
For that, 5/5.
Quicken. Then you can go fish whatever happen!