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Squelching Leeches

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Squelching Leeches

Comments (13)

DaLucaray
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I play a slightly more aggro casual Mono-Black

This was the only card in the set that deck was excited about. (Gluttony is too disadvantageous)
anotherfan321
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
He's no heir to the Blackblade, but for a big pile of leeches, he's pretty good.
HuntingDrake
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Huh. They usually make these things "splashable", i.e. require only a single colored mana. I suppose Devotion is a good reason to break that rule...
BorosGreengrocer
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (5 votes)
Can we have more Squelching cards with P/T equal to your number of swamps. I want that to be called "the Squelching ability".

Plays well with Squelching Pegasus.
BolasEvilPlan
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Compare to nightmare:

Nightmare

+ Flying
+ Is a unicorn
+ Has Been around since alpha
+ Less black required (Though doesn't really count seeing as you only run them in mono-black, unless you run Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth and you want to use these guys for some reason)
- Costs 2 more

Leeches

+ Costs less
- No flying
- Leeches are ugly

So discounting all the trollish arguments, it's really a case of would you pay 2 more for flying on your fatty?
captainnermy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So this is an uncommon Nightmare for two less, and all it loses is flying? Am I missing something?
RedJaron
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
The card name alone makes me feel . . . uncomfortable.
Majinkajisan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@captainnermy:
Yes, you're missing Lashwrithe.
Twilly05
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
When I saw this I instantly thought of the leech guy from Resident Evil Outbreak.

Anyone?
Fenix.
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Requires you to shove quite a lot of swamps in your manabase to not suck.
SlushyJones
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Pretty good in mono-black decks, I can dig it. Get this guy as a 4/4 on turn four, which isn't bad. He gets better as the game goes on, which is a problem for a lot of creatures. On turn 6 you he's a 6/6 while you Corrupt an opponent. Not bad.
Kirbster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Squeeches.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@BorosGreengrocer: And Lashwrithe aka Squelching Lash