Not nearly as bad as it looks. It can be combined with any sort of mass damage in a creatureless deck to do serious harm. Or, just toss it down in multiplayer after a late-game wrath to kill everyone.
izzet_guild_mage
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Heh, this card is great...forgot all about it though. I think it's time to bust out the nastiness again :)
qaq456
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
blast walls with this also good with first strike and wrath of god etc
Zaneshift
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Would be much better if black's equivalent to Pyroclasm or Volcanic Fallout wasn't a -1/-1 counter sort of deal. Yes, I mean Marsh Casualties. Still, it's a wonderful card for my skeleton deck, since regenerate makes the creature killing easy enough to take advantage of and it does plenty of extra damage when I need it. A bit too situational to be that useful outside a more casual deck though.
TheHandyman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Great in a Tim deck.
blindthrall
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I don't like it. Pestilence is the cheapest way to wrath with it, and that's still five mana and two cards, plus four mana earlier for pestilence, and you lose the pestilence barring shenanigans. Pyroclasm ups it to six mana and two colors. Tack on another three mana for a massive life loss that can hurt you too.
wail of the nim and this both entwined see what happens >:)
LordRandomness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Respond to the sacrifice trigger of Subterranean Shambler to get away with killing everything grounded for 7.
Tezz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
works well entwined with so many red cards, the entwine cost should have been {2}{R}.
The_Murderauder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Surprised nobody has mentioned this earlier: this card is best in EDH, when one player swings all-out at another player (ideally, neither of these players is you). Play after blockers are declared, everything that blocked or was blocked dies, and hits its controller for a nice chunk of damage.
I regularly take out two players at once with this, and nobody sees it coming.
NARFNra
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
And that was how Goblin Sharpshooter became the happiest guy on the battlefield.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This also curves nicely with plague spitter. Attach with him, if they block, drop this. If they didn't go for it, you can just do it on your next upkeep!
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tl;dr Overcosted.
I regularly take out two players at once with this, and nobody sees it coming.