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Claustrophobia

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Claustrophobia

Comments (12)

Solstice-273.15
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (8 votes)
I'm so glad they kept that terrifying innistrad artwork. Blue's "arrests" just keep getting better.
Purplerooster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Not one of the better ways to die...
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (6 votes)
Seven days later, the Acidic Slime shows up and Mr. Generic Human here is still perfectly fine.
"Gee thanks, I owe ya one."
"Yeah, that guy over there, he was Dehydrated. And that one? Sleeping Potion got 'im. I still don't exactly know what's going on, but looks like we're winning now."
"Still gonna need therapy after this..."
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
I hope they'll reuse this artwork forever, it's just too damn awesome not to use.

Also i'm really glad the effect is worthy of the artwork and name,
this happened to be one of the first Dehydration variants worth playing.

I'll admit though, the flavor - at least with Innistrad's take seen in the artwork -
seems more black than blue, despite the intensive casting cost.

Claustrophobia as a neurotic disorder makes perfect sense in blue,
but i guess anyone would freak out when getting buried alive (no, not like that).
SoddenPine
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Someone didn't pay attention to the cruel tutelage of Pai Mei...
LordOfTheFlies87
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Great to have in core.
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Being claustrophobic myself, this art always gives me chills when I look at it too long.
troll_berserker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
EDH gold. Keeping their commanders on the board tapped is in general much better than destroying or exiling them.
O0oze
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
1) a few days without air, food or water do not kill a human, apperantly.
2) primordial hydra getting bigger and bigger inside a tiny cascet... but still cant get out.
3) "untap target creature" stuff get the creature out of the cascet for some time, then back in.

this card just doesn't make sense.
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Ho Ho Ho!
Aelvr
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@OOoze That's not what's going on here. Claustrophobia is a hallucinogenic spell; it causes the enchanted creature to have hallucinations of being stuck in a coffin underground, not being able to get out, not being able to be heard--it's all in his/her/its head. In reality, the enchanted creature is probably collapsed on the ground, unconscious. This is absolutely how a mind mage like Jace would fight. It makes perfect sense.
zapper59
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This makes Floodtide Serpent playable.