Old school goodness. This card is still good in my opinion unless its been outdone in some fashion im not aware of. Whats that? Gonna lightning helix my guy? naw, i'll just draw a card and you can forget about the 3 life. Bwa ha ha.
Sironos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use it when your permanent is gonna die/ get destroyed anyway.
JakeTamber
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I am glad I have been reading these comments, being new to the game. Owning one of these cards I set it aside as a "Why?" card. It never occurred to me you could use it before a creature was destroyed.
allmighty_abacus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Also good in a barren glory deck as it allows you to sacrifice your own oblivion rings journey to nowheres at instant speed (IE at the end of your opponents turn since they have almost no time to react between then and your win at upkeep)
The best in its class, appropriately awarded to black. Carnage Altar, Culling Dias and Phyrexian Vault just don't cut it.
myblackplague
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I just discovered this after playing 1 year solid mono black edh...this is amazing. What a fantastic engine, dredge cards, nether traitor, infinte mana and spine of ish sah.
jfre81
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Run with Necropotence or Yawgmoth's Bargain to ensure access to card draw later in the game when you may get dangerously low on life. Also, this can be used as an alternative to either in Legacy. I've come to actually prefer it in graveyard-recursion decks.
Someone throws down a board sweeper, e.g. Jokulhaups or All is Dust, tap everything you can for mana and replenish your hand. Just playing a card like this might make them reconsider their strategy altogether.
I think this is the card MaRo was talking about in a recent podcast... he designed this ability as "cycling for cards in play" but nobody got it. This is why later variations on cycling (Mountaincycling, Slivercycling, etc) actually had the word cycling in them.
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Not being able to sacrifice tokens for value hurts quite a bit. It's one of my favorite tricks with the other sac>draws. Nonetheless, this is nice that it can sacrifice any permanent. Hatching Plans comes to mind, and it's an out to your own Standstill if things go sour.
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I just discovered this after playing 1 year solid mono black edh...this is amazing. What a fantastic engine, dredge cards, nether traitor, infinte mana and spine of ish sah.
Someone throws down a board sweeper, e.g. Jokulhaups or All is Dust, tap everything you can for mana and replenish your hand. Just playing a card like this might make them reconsider their strategy altogether.
Mycosynth Wellspring
Ichor Wellspring
Spine of Ish Sah
Hatching Plans
Gamekeeper (and any "die" effects).