Give her a Loxodon Warhammer late game. She is also a zombie, so in an Extended zombie deck her cost is reduced by Undead Warchief and Zombie Trailblazer can make her unblockable. Sick.
And her character is amazing in the story.
MasterOfEtherium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(13 votes)
Dam This Girl Is One Ice Queen Id Still Try To Touch Her Though
ColossusofSardia
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Wow this card has a lot of potential and is fun in a zombie deck. Though in a deck built around her it is possible to win with her by turn 4 without even using her to attack with cheap cards;
Starting Hand, 3 Dark Ritual, 1 Phage the Untouchable, 1 Endless Whispers, 1 Swamp and 1 Mountain.
Start turn one playing the swamp, drawing another swamp. Then turn two by playing the mountain, throw down a dark ritual to play Endless Whispers and also drawing a terminate. Throw down the last swamp on turn three and then use dark ritual twice to play Phage. At this point it does not matter what you do because you terminate her on turn 4 sending her to your graveyard which in turn forces her into play from your graveyard under your opponents control making him loose the game.
Of course you could just pull of a turn two win and play her on turn one with two black lotus, 1 swamp and attack on turn two.
MalleusAetis
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(11 votes)
Opening hand: 1 Swamp 4 Dark Ritual 1 Phage the Untouchable 1 Lightning Greaves
It actually happened. I got this once.
Dragon_Whelp
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(12 votes)
Give her Double Strike and make your opponent lose the game twice.
TheSwarm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
My friend just got 201 legions cards and I pray this is one of them
MagicMTG
★★☆☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(17 votes)
Chuck Norris can touch Phage.
albrochill
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I actually bought a booster of legions for three dollars at a local comic book store and my rare happened to be Phage
Gus.The.Ghost
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
My first rare in my first booster. My experienced friend's reaction is probably what got me into magic. Love this card. I run 6 in every deck next to my Storm Crows and Wild Evocations.
blurrymadness
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@Dragon Whelp Silliness aside, I think that when they lose the first time, they are no longer in the game and thus combat with them/their creatures ceases after the First Strike Combat Step (when someone gets priority) and thus the opponent loses right there. Your second strike never hits I'm fairly sure.
This is actually relevant btw! Because if you have Lifelink or similar, you'll only get the first hit (not both) when it comes to multiplayer.
In the books she was accidentally created by Braids when she tried to kill Jeska, all at the request of the Cabal Patriarch. Phage later served as the lieutenant of the Patriarch during the war between the Cabal/Kamahl and the forces of Ixidor and Akroma, eventually being combined with Akroma and Zagorka (a character in the books mentioned no where else) into Karona, the embodiment of dominarian magic.
Gotta love the books, they make the flavor so much more interesting.
001010011100101110
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
In EDH, I'll have to pay extra to lose the game again.
Heartless Summoning could also help, but, yeah, definitely not as much as Rooftop Storm. or Phage Ramp, anyone? It's just ridiculous enough to work...in casual.
divine_exodus
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(3 votes)
@MasterOfEtherium:
You do that, then you'll get touched back, and then we have one less thing to worry about.
And another thing...
She's a MINION???? Who in all the planes of existence does she serve?
caralhodepica
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
a few time ago this was mine... but instead of this... i've got the Avatar of Woe!!! I am so happy about this... it really saved the universe!!!
Sorain
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I used to run her in my black zombie deck because she was just that bloody cool. Now she is a zombie. Poor enemies, she just wants a hug and a nice Whispersilk Cloak. Of course, she does make me vulnerable to some tricks like Otherworldly Journey, but at least she protects me against Liliana Vess while she is in my graveyard. (apparently having her use her ultimate while Phage is around causes a lethal catfight or something...) Just a sweet card over all.
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Thanks to the way my local card store runs EDH tourneys, I can always have a sure 4-points each game, since every time you kill a player, you get 2 points. It doesn't matter if it's you or not: someone got the 2 points by Ancient Tombing himself
All of the cringe-worthy spells that'll make my opponents happy rather than sad that I killed myself.
See, usually, most people get 2-3 points in the end. This way, I can at least get third or fourth.
... Then again, it kind of defeats the purpose of going to a tournament in the first place...
Equinox523
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Rares like this keep things interesting - while one touch is all it needs to kill you, you need to plan a deck and strategy around how to get that one hit. Cards like Shizo, Death's Storehouse and Shadow Rift just beg to be used to enable this game-winning strategy. I love the effect she has on the game - the minute she hits the board everyone needs to immediately figure out what to do with her.
Captain_Sisay_2591
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I wish they had made Zagorka as a card, or at least mention her in the flavor text on a card or two. That old lady was awesome as was her donkey.
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And her character is amazing in the story.
Starting Hand, 3 Dark Ritual, 1 Phage the Untouchable, 1 Endless Whispers, 1 Swamp and 1 Mountain.
Start turn one playing the swamp, drawing another swamp. Then turn two by playing the mountain, throw down a dark ritual to play Endless Whispers and also drawing a terminate. Throw down the last swamp on turn three and then use dark ritual twice to play Phage. At this point it does not matter what you do because you terminate her on turn 4 sending her to your graveyard which in turn forces her into play from your graveyard under your opponents control making him loose the game.
Of course you could just pull of a turn two win and play her on turn one with two black lotus, 1 swamp and attack on turn two.
1 Swamp
4 Dark Ritual
1 Phage the Untouchable
1 Lightning Greaves
It actually happened. I got this once.
Silliness aside, I think that when they lose the first time, they are no longer in the game and thus combat with them/their creatures ceases after the First Strike Combat Step (when someone gets priority) and thus the opponent loses right there. Your second strike never hits I'm fairly sure.
This is actually relevant btw! Because if you have Lifelink or similar, you'll only get the first hit (not both) when it comes to multiplayer.
In the books she was accidentally created by Braids when she tried to kill Jeska, all at the request of the Cabal Patriarch. Phage later served as the lieutenant of the Patriarch during the war between the Cabal/Kamahl and the forces of Ixidor and Akroma, eventually being combined with Akroma and Zagorka (a character in the books mentioned no where else) into Karona, the embodiment of dominarian magic.
Gotta love the books, they make the flavor so much more interesting.
You do that, then you'll get touched back, and then we have one less thing to worry about.
And another thing...
She's a MINION???? Who in all the planes of existence does she serve?
I'm going to plan to play a terribly defensive and pathetic deck that annoys rather than destroys. It will include Oppression, Jinxed Idol, Subversion, Syphon Flesh, Syphon Mind, Phyrexian Obliterator...
All of the cringe-worthy spells that'll make my opponents happy rather than sad that I killed myself.
See, usually, most people get 2-3 points in the end. This way, I can at least get third or fourth.
... Then again, it kind of defeats the purpose of going to a tournament in the first place...