"There's no candy in there! You get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!"
psychichobo
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
The dying creature does damage. That's pretty awesome if they're rocking deathtouch/lifelink/etc.
RAV0004
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(2 votes)
From the rules: "Creatures that come into play after Showstopper resolves won't have the ability"
Haplo81
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Respond to your opponent's Mizzium Mortars with this. Then make a trollface.
SiamKor
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
The Showstopper! The Icon! The Main Event!
All your dying creatures will apply Sweet Chin Music someone/something's face!
Splizer
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Great with Eldrazi Spawn actually, meaning you can knock out a big creature while paying for big stuff. AND doable with that strategy in Jund colours (e.g: Dread Drone, Emrakul's Hatcher, Nest Invader, etc.)
Curlie-Joe
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
"And, for my next trick... Ladies and gents, pay attention; I can only pull this off once...," said no Immortal Servitude deck ever.
Skeletextman
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
They should have shortened the flavor text to just: "The audience quickly realized that this wasn't a magic trick."
CapmCrunch
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
So many levels of fail. In the original Ravnica, Rakdos was cruel, unpredictable, merciless, a guild to be feared. There was an aspect of deranged festivals there, but it wasn't the only focus. Now, what, all Rakdos are carnies? The art is embarrassing, the flavor joke is worthy of someone who was fired from Roseanne after a season and the effect is negligible at best.
majinara
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
At first I thought "awesome card, you can combo it with guys, such as Sek'kuar, Deathkeeper to kill off a player quickly!".
Then I read it again, and thought "oh, creatures that enter the battlefield after you played this won't have that ability. I guess that breaks most of the combos".
Then I read it again, and thought "oh, you can't damage players with it..., so setting up any more complicated combo ain't worth it, since you don't know whether your opponent will have any creatures at all (or they might have shroud, hexproof, protection, regeneration or whatever)."
Beast-mode art, but the card itself is really difficult to use. Close but no dice 2/5
MechaKraken
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Useful against other aggro decks as a cheap board wipe. Send your creatures in and let them be picked off, then use the damage to blow up anything of interest on the opponents side. Usually if you don't have a kill spell, this can work in a pinch.
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Saw the flavor text: "AHAHAHAHAH NO"
"Creatures that come into play after Showstopper resolves won't have the ability"
All your dying creatures will apply Sweet Chin Music someone/something's face!
Then I read it again, and thought "oh, creatures that enter the battlefield after you played this won't have that ability. I guess that breaks most of the combos".
Then I read it again, and thought "oh, you can't damage players with it..., so setting up any more complicated combo ain't worth it, since you don't know whether your opponent will have any creatures at all (or they might have shroud, hexproof, protection, regeneration or whatever)."
:| Not that good.
That's exactly why I didn't much like Rakdos - until they started printing cards like this.
5/5 for Magic not taking itself too seriously. We're not playing Warhammer, here.
Honk. :O)
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Would have gotten a 5/5 if exploding creatures could damage player... But they don't so...