I love how this card lets you feel all altruistic for a minute until the second sentence of text kicks in. Interesting card for white that is great fun in multiplayer.
Chrisrawr
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Seriously, 3 mana for an expensive blue effect. Awesome card.
All you have to do if keep someone else's creature alive and you get it? Holy crap.
Mustached_Stranger
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(6 votes)
Seems too good to be true. Why have I not heard about this card?
MrPink343
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Pre-Oracle, this was a one mana cheaper, white, instant speed Control Magic that couldn't be undone by anti-enchantment cards. Yet another card for that R&D's Secret Lair deck.
Even post-Oracle, it's pretty damn good. I have visions of seeing a juicy creature across the table in a multiplayer game about to die, and I say "hey friend, I can save that guy if you want". So evil...
jeff-heikkinen
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
@ Mr Pink: This card has never worked that way. Remember that it's from before 6th Edtion, when regeneration effects could only be played during a special step that took place when something would actually be destroyed. (One of the many things to which 6E said "good riddance to bad rubbish".) You could never just play this on a creature at will. (Are you kidding? It's powerful enough as it is.)
spirit_of_blue
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
It is white version of False Demise. When comparing with blue enchantment it has advantage of instant speed (surprise effect) and disadvantage of not applying come into play effects. Generally it is pretty powerfull card.
monkeymonk42
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Han solo?
Cyberium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
EDH and multiplayer Gold. Steal creatures that's about to die under a spell effect, or just when your opponent thinks he can safely let his general die...
wstonefi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome card. A powerful effect, rarely seen in white, that is nonetheless white in flavor terms. If it was printed today, it would probably be blue/white, or maybe even blue/black.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Thank GOD for errata!
*Deep exhale*
bay_falconer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Insanely powerful, even with the errata.
BongRipper420
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wow. This can be incredibly powerful, especially for white.
Oh, also, Debt of Loyalty is a really cool card. Save a creature from death, and it pledges its allegiance to you. You can use it to save your own threat or to steal your opponent's if it's going to die. Surprise! I'll be taking that!
Works well with Beast Within, because regeneration and the control swap will replace the destruction, causing you to become its controller by the time Beast Within checks for it (so YOU get the 3/3 Beast token). Best of all, this means you retain control of Starke of Rath if you cast Debt of Loyalty on his target!
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Even post-Oracle, it's pretty damn good. I have visions of seeing a juicy creature across the table in a multiplayer game about to die, and I say "hey friend, I can save that guy if you want". So evil...
Generally it is pretty powerfull card.
*Deep exhale*
Oh, also, Debt of Loyalty is a really cool card. Save a creature from death, and it pledges its allegiance to you. You can use it to save your own threat or to steal your opponent's if it's going to die. Surprise! I'll be taking that!
Works well with Beast Within, because regeneration and the control swap will replace the destruction, causing you to become its controller by the time Beast Within checks for it (so YOU get the 3/3 Beast token). Best of all, this means you retain control of Starke of Rath if you cast Debt of Loyalty on his target!
Wait a minute...how does that flavor make sense?
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