This card rocks Brings back Demigod of revenge and Reanimate also makes your oppenent whos playing blue has to ether waste counter on it or discard there hand.
best played with a reanimator or drugeing type of deck :P
KikiJikiTiki
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
This card says, "Win" to me in a discard deck. If they're smart, they'll keep those cards in the graveyard while you pull your Burning Inquiry out of the graveyard to nuke 'em with Megrim/Liliana's Caress
thedarkheathen
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
You guys seem to be missing one of the best strengths of this card, which is in a Storm deck. Play a bunch of spells, then this. Sacrifice a Lion's Eye Diamond in response for mana, get back Tendrils of Agony and either protection or free mana or what have you as appropriate and then get them for lethal.
Lord_Sauron
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
It's a pitty that there is no way to react between the discarding and the drawing of cards.
Now the only combo I can come up with is indeed Leyline of the Void, while this card is crying out loud of "use me in combos".
There's a deck named after this card, because it's broken. Baaaaaaaaaaaaroken.
It goes like this: Play Lion's Eye Diamond and whatever mana acceleration you've got in your hand --> play Infernal Tutor or Grim Tutor --> activate Lion's Eye Diamond before tutor resolves, discarding --> when tutor resolves, search for Ill-Gotten Gains --> cast IGG recovering LED, Tutor, and a mana accelerant like Dark Ritual --> repeat the tutor loop with a second or third IGG if necessary --> eventually play like twenty-seven copies of Tendrils of Agony for the win.
I've completed the combo kill without a Lion's Eye Diamond before, just by IGG-looping Grim Tutor and two copies of Cabal Ritual.
A lot of folks only run one copy of IGG because even one loop is usually enough to generate lethal storm, given all the mana acceleration you cast. Or you can use the IGG to set up a Doomsday-based finish.
Sweet card. If you play Storm, you play it. If you play against Storm, you fear seeing it -- it signals the end is nigh...
nunyaJs
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
used properly this almost (ALMOST) starts to feel like a black Balance.
It just takes more effort to 'break' it. Way better than Persecute, which was in the same set. *shrug*
Really good with Leyline of the Void. T2 non-targeted discard that eats their entire hand for a Dark ritual, then puts back into your hand whatever it was you needed. Seems like an easy way to secure a win.
Good in zombies for a way to swap your gravecrawlers into the yard and get back other stuff.
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best played with a reanimator or drugeing type of deck :P
Now the only combo I can come up with is indeed Leyline of the Void, while this card is crying out loud of "use me in combos".
It goes like this: Play Lion's Eye Diamond and whatever mana acceleration you've got in your hand --> play Infernal Tutor or Grim Tutor --> activate Lion's Eye Diamond before tutor resolves, discarding --> when tutor resolves, search for Ill-Gotten Gains --> cast IGG recovering LED, Tutor, and a mana accelerant like Dark Ritual --> repeat the tutor loop with a second or third IGG if necessary --> eventually play like twenty-seven copies of Tendrils of Agony for the win.
I've completed the combo kill without a Lion's Eye Diamond before, just by IGG-looping Grim Tutor and two copies of Cabal Ritual.
A lot of folks only run one copy of IGG because even one loop is usually enough to generate lethal storm, given all the mana acceleration you cast. Or you can use the IGG to set up a Doomsday-based finish.
Sweet card. If you play Storm, you play it. If you play against Storm, you fear seeing it -- it signals the end is nigh...
It just takes more effort to 'break' it. Way better than Persecute, which was in the same set. *shrug*
Good in zombies for a way to swap your gravecrawlers into the yard and get back other stuff.
Opponent has 7..
You cast this, both now have three cards.
Yeah seems broken.