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This seems pretty good.

yeah, saves your ass quite often, but it's quite pricy and you're kinda reluctant to use it if it doesn't bounce back to your hand

the instant speed kinda makes it much better than it should be... for just gaining 4 life.

Ya this could be pretty good, or this could really suck depending on where you're at compared to your opponent.

If your losing by enough for this to return to your hand, then this is not going to save you.
A waste of a card slot in any deck. If you want to save yourself from death, play a
4cmc Sorcery.

People forgot one thing: This card works excellent with any card that requires a life payment (one time or upkeep). Zur's Weirding, for example, is a great combo with this card since you can safely bring your life low without worrying about reaching critical point, thx to this card's ability to return to your hand. If your life is, say, more than 8 pt below your opponent, you can cast this twice and it still returns to your hand. Any card that benefits from you having a bigger hand size would also prosper with this card.

4/5. Not much by itself but is a great combo fodder.

I can see this in a small niche of white control decks... but that's it.

This seems like a good card in multiplayer.

Borderline broken against non-blue aggro. You will live to your win-con. Haters here don't know how valuable this is in mono-white vs. say... Zoo.

Hey look, infect and phyrexian mana!

Lich.

Hm, I draw four cards, and... yeah, I'm pretty sure I get it back too.

Cards that only gain life are only good if they can be recurred. Thus, this is pretty hand against aggro.

Worth it just to see the mono-red player start bolting himself.

This card seems like it can be used for many reasons. For combos, for delaying your death, just plain life gain, and many more.

Person Reading My Comment- "Well, yes it could be used for those things, but that is a pretty generic comment. Put some effort into your comments, ok?"