This is both good for and against monoblack devotion... and hilarious in the mirror match!
CopySix
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Should have been called 'Token Blight' . . . :)
DaLucaray
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
The obvious comparison here is to Echoing Decay. Blight just hits for more, but Decay can be cost easier and most token hordes are 1/1's anyway.
j_mindfingerpainter
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Really, not a bad card. I just don't see it with a spot in Modern- Abrupt Decay and Maelstrom Pulse are crowding the place- but I suppose there are {B} decks without {G}. I hope eventually gets that spot in Modern, where most played creatures have toughness ≤ 3.
No, there's pretty clearly an arrow near the bottom left. /nitpicking Nice card. I enjoy punishing decks who are too linear in strategy.
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Even if they don't have tokens, it's getting close to Grasp of Darkness, reaching Last Gasp levels of decent removal.
Highly usable, especially in Mono-Black Devotion.
djh119
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Poor Pack Rat. He just wanted to spread some diseases...
sweetgab
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Despite this, Pack Rat will still see play. Mono-black mirrors are determined by Pack Rats at least half of the time, Bile Blight isn't going to make mono-black players give up such a good card in the mirror.
Lord_Skoonie
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Guaranteed to take the place of Pharika's Cure in Mono Black. Extremely powerful early game removal.
orzhov20
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
opponent: finnaly! I have ultimated ajani, caller of pride! with my spear of heliod, nothing can stop my army of cat tokens me: that's what you think...
So I guess this is kind of like Echoing Decay if Echoing Decay needed to be powercreeped. Which it didn't. Which makes this card all the more odd simply because generally when you have a decently powerful card you don't go ahead and make a strictly better version of it for no reason.
LordOfTheFlies87
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Brutal.
N03y3D33R
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
It's good instant speed removal that has the potential to kill token swarms. It's also not picky about what it can kill as opposed to doom blade. If you're running heavy black like devotion this is your best early removal spell you have access to, although it becomes more of a combat trick later into a game.
pudginamancer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Thank you wizards. Black needed this. more Sideboard material for those times you go against those annoying pack rat , ogre slumlord or any other kind of un neutered deck. I will run it along side illness in the ranks just to add insult to injury
So first they reprint Thoughtseize, and common knowledge says that to fight it you should build your deck with more 3-ofs and 4-ofs. And then they print this.
hiplaneswanderer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
may I ask for verification, please: so, two copies of this card cast on the same turn will send an indestructible god with toughness 6 to the graveyard?
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Nice card. I enjoy punishing decks who are too linear in strategy.
Highly usable, especially in Mono-Black Devotion.
me: that's what you think...