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This card's pretty sweet. At the time this guy was a little silly, well until u realized the block before this was Mirrodin. This is an absolute BOMB in extended and completly destroys affinaty.
4.5 out of 5

Definitely good againts artifact decks.

Kiss your precious Esperites, Arcbound, and Myr goodbye. Kataki can tax your opponents ridiculously if they've got an Artifact deck. Take out some copies of Disciple of the Vault - because those artifact-lovers are going to lose at least a few artifacts to Kataki's wrath. Throw in a few Saltblasts (pick off lands in order to reduce their mana supply), a little more creature removal, and an Indestructibility or two, and you have yourself a soldi W/B artifact-hoser deck.

Good in EDH, just not as a general.

A blowout against affinity, if they can't remove/counter it. It basically reads, "All permanents you control have an upkeep cost of 1."

"Hey Kataki, remember that block that came before us?"

"Yeah."

"*** it. *** it hard."

i bet this was the most hated sideboard card in standard for a while after mirrodin :P

Does anyone else have the idea of using this with Mycosynth Lattice? Your opponent would have to sacrifice things first...

Man, you would think that this card is pretty self explanatory. However, about half the times I pull out this card, I get asked "your upkeep or mine?" What a silly question.

On topic, I use this as a side-board card in the Modern format. I can't think of a better affinity-hoser than this.

Ok.. I promise I'm not trying to be rude or an a-hole or whatever so can everybody try hard not to get so dang butthurt about this?? Anyone who is using orcish knows at least a little bit about MTG, some more than others but cest la vie! Can we PLEASE stop taking up space to just to have our name pop up on a comment with the most obvious crap you could put?!? If someone takes 1 look at this card and doesn't immediately think to themselves wow this would be pretty good against artifact decks.. Then they're retarded and you can't help them, even by stating that in the comments, all those ppl will see when they read it is banannas and crayons! The rest of us just like you already get it. So think deeper and be more creative or shut up and rate the card. Sorry for edge to my tone and the redundancy.

What I find kind of funny about this card is how little the card matches the short story posted on the website ("War's Wage"). The card is cheap and small artifact hate, while the story is one about a unstoppable spirit consumed by the need for vengeance and the anger it feels at others for stealing its vengeance.

The story itself is still very good, luckily; it was written by Jeff Grubb, who wrote The Brother's War and the Ice Age books.

This isn't the most definite and powerful artifact hate (compared to cards that just destroy all artifacts or give them a life-loss upkeep cost, for example), but it's certainly the most efficient. Cheap as all get out at 2 cmc!

I really wanted it for my Spirit decks, but Long-Forgotten Gohei won that fight. Even if I am using some Drogskol Captains I like my buffs.

Hilariously stubby arms.

This might be useful against artifact decks, but i'm not too sure about that.

Step 1: Play Kataki
Step 2: Play Gibbering Descent and get rid of your hand
Step 3: Use Mycosynth Lattice to turn everything into an artifact
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit

Mycosynth Lattice + Null Rod while sandbagging some lands.