this would be so good for madness if it was just cheaper to cast.
kylenyu
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
This card is freakin amazing, enough said. This is a very good mana engine in the right deck.
TheSwarm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
madness, nuff said
Kryptnyt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I don't get the flavortext. Is it a pun, trying to be funny? That's common in Urzablock. But what is the double meaning, then? Is it serious flavor, and Priest of Yawgmoth is a guy who likes to be mutilated by his pets?
Hrmm
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@Forgeling If you discard it and then cast Animate Dead, it's a bargain. With Entomb and such you can get it out early in the game.
@Krytnyt I think it's trying to be "ironic."
Opined_Fluke
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@kryptnyt I don't think the text is ironic, just phyrexian. What we would see as mutilations, the phyrexians would see as 'upgrades.'
MacBizzle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This guy reads: Madness costs you pay cost B less to play.
Think about it. Mana abilities do not use the stack. You discard the card as part of the cost, then before madness can trigger (as it is a triggered ability), you get the mana. Immediately. No stack, none of that waiting to resolve stuff. You immediately use that mana to PLAY the card with madness that you just discarded, because madness will trigger after you get the mana.
Combos alright with Greed for ridiculous amounts of deck-sifting, provided you can pay the life costs.
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It's really cool how this is a potential combo engine from Urza Block which is good, but not broken. It even has its own niche in Magic because of the fact that, unlike Cadavorous Bloom, it doesn't exile the cards.
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Is it serious flavor, and Priest of Yawgmoth is a guy who likes to be mutilated by his pets?
@Krytnyt I think it's trying to be "ironic."
I don't think the text is ironic, just phyrexian. What we would see as mutilations, the phyrexians would see as 'upgrades.'
Think about it. Mana abilities do not use the stack. You discard the card as part of the cost, then before madness can trigger (as it is a triggered ability), you get the mana. Immediately. No stack, none of that waiting to resolve stuff. You immediately use that mana to PLAY the card with madness that you just discarded, because madness will trigger after you get the mana.
Bog Witch can do the same amazing thing.