Just what Orzhov wants: A good defender with Extort to bleed the opponent out, not to mention the ability to attack if needed
Dabok
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
"After our duel is done, your 100$ debt shall go down to your family. Oh don't worry about the funeral, I'll take care of that for you. Free of charge."
Redgurr
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Would have looked much better in a gold boarder card, or even a hybrid card. Mono-white? disappointing indeed.
occamsrazorwit
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(13 votes)
This art belongs on a legendary.
flavioal28
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.9/5.0)(4 votes)
The art is amazing. Could have easily belonged to a mythic, or a legendary creature. What a waste of art on such a "meh" card
TakOZ
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(12 votes)
NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD
Tiggurix
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(3 votes)
The flavour text makes it sound pretty blue, but I guess mathematical savantness falls within the purview of the Orzhov.
Purplerooster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Well Pillarfield Ox is still better in Ox tribal, right?
Ok, well, this is Hussar Patrol's goth brother. Instead of having Flash, he gets Extort. We'll see which will be better in limited.
GearLeader
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Love the art and the flavor...
The card, its eh
Frenzy13
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Orzhov always gets the best art. Always.
NoobOfLore
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(4 votes)
@Tiggurix Remember, white and block are adjacent to blue on the color wheel. There's a little bit of bleed.
Asmodi0000
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I managed to bribe this guy into working for Boros for my prerelease. Thankfully, he took his payment out of my opponent's life, thanks to all the small creatures I kept casting.
chrome_dome
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
3/5.
Specter_Fanatic13
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The flavor and art are amazing, but what you get isn't that great. Honestly, I don't really want to attack on the ground in an Orzhov/Extort deck, so his vigilance has never really been useful. And his high cost makes him hard to use extort when you cast him. I'd honestly rather run Crypt Ghast as my four mana extorter.
Still, I love the flavor and art. Just wish it was on a better card.
OrgasmandTea
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Fun fact... the flavour text is actually referring to the horse. That artwork is so badass. I love how faceless the taxman is.
Smoke_Stack
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(4 votes)
overcosted. boring abilities. BUT LOOK AT THE ARTWORK HOLY $#!* THATS AMAZING!!!
Enemy_Tricolor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Every time I activate his extort ability, I use it as an opportunity to remind my opponent that he needs to call his mom, or return that overdue library book, or file his taxes this week, or dust his shelves. As you can imagine, I'm the most popular person in my group.
Kaleidostorm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Works surprisingly well with Boros. A good basic blocker, vigilance synergizes with Battalion, and Extort can be hilarious.
EamonnMR
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm gonna run this guy as a one-of in my casual knight deck, mostly because he's the pink knight.
Mistralis
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
One of my favorite Extort cards. Pretty fairly costed. Vigilance makes it an attacker when needed, and it's 2/4 makes it a good blocker. And it has extort. Doesn't die to Lightning Bolt.
Also, art is amazing.
RAV0004
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
FUN FACT TIME
Extort is a dual ability that appears equally in both black and white, like first strike is dual colored ability that appears equally in both white and red. (see boros recruit, Tundra Wolves, Striking Sliver) In fact there's no reason at all it should say "pay w/b", since only white and black cards have the cost... It should have just been printed as "pay an extra 1,..." Except for one reason:
Mark Rosewater specifically requested the design team to make Extort have the hybrid w/b cost in it so that extort cards could only be used in white AND black EDH decks, not one or the other.
Or, more accurately, he designed it so that the people in charge of the EDH format would remove the ridiculous (in his mind) rule that hybrid cards can't be played in mono colored EDH decks. In Magic Design, Hybrids are cards that can fit into either of the colors it is (for example, Merfolk of the Depths is a card that could be printed at 4GG OR 4UU, without changing or editing anything besides perhaps it's creature types in any way. Gold Cards on the other hand, are cards that give abilities that exist solely because the card is that color (Skyward Eye Prophets gets vigilance because it's white, card draw because it's blue, and land accel, however bad, because it's green. With any one of those colors lacking, they would not have printed skyward eye the way it was).
It's interesting to note that the people who run Elder Dragon Highlander changed the entire rule on color identity just to spite the entire design philosophy behind hybrid costs, and the whole point of extort, while still allowing this card to be run in mono White EDH decks.
adolphus
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
love Extort
Burningsickle
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
@orgasmandtea: mind = blown
bobw123
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I always will think of this like an leveled up basilica guards. For just one extra mana, you get a knight that loses defender and gains vigilance and gets +1/+1. And I always picture him leading an squad of guards when the church is under assault. As a result I know him as the captain of the guard in my basilica
TPmanW
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Only one thing in life is certain: death by taxes.
Comments (28)
No?
Ok, well, this is Hussar Patrol's goth brother. Instead of having Flash, he gets Extort. We'll see which will be better in limited.
The card, its eh
Remember, white and block are adjacent to blue on the color wheel. There's a little bit of bleed.
Still, I love the flavor and art. Just wish it was on a better card.
That artwork is so badass. I love how faceless the taxman is.
Also, art is amazing.
Extort is a dual ability that appears equally in both black and white, like first strike is dual colored ability that appears equally in both white and red. (see boros recruit, Tundra Wolves, Striking Sliver) In fact there's no reason at all it should say "pay w/b", since only white and black cards have the cost... It should have just been printed as "pay an extra 1,..." Except for one reason:
Mark Rosewater specifically requested the design team to make Extort have the hybrid w/b cost in it so that extort cards could only be used in white AND black EDH decks, not one or the other.
Or, more accurately, he designed it so that the people in charge of the EDH format would remove the ridiculous (in his mind) rule that hybrid cards can't be played in mono colored EDH decks. In Magic Design, Hybrids are cards that can fit into either of the colors it is (for example, Merfolk of the Depths is a card that could be printed at 4GG OR 4UU, without changing or editing anything besides perhaps it's creature types in any way. Gold Cards on the other hand, are cards that give abilities that exist solely because the card is that color (Skyward Eye Prophets gets vigilance because it's white, card draw because it's blue, and land accel, however bad, because it's green. With any one of those colors lacking, they would not have printed skyward eye the way it was).
It's interesting to note that the people who run Elder Dragon Highlander changed the entire rule on color identity just to spite the entire design philosophy behind hybrid costs, and the whole point of extort, while still allowing this card to be run in mono White EDH decks.