I lvoe it, but it can't target nonblack creatures. :(
thaviel
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Kill the swans !
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
This card is even more fun if you animate your opponent's basic lands :D
iondragonx
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
Lifespark Spellbomb + Eradicate FTW!!!
Draugnor
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Wow. I never thought of using this with animated lands. I feel stupid, but am also starting to feel a little devious.
zeyette
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(7 votes)
I target Storm Crow. I win
diplopia7
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Probably one of the coolest black removal spells out there. Works awesome against indestructibility, combo decks that hinge on a creature, and any beat-down win condition. I love it.
IncrediSteve
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Awesome art, awesome ability. It always elicits a "big no" from any Johnies/Timmies . 4.75/5
Beekhead
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I'm building a black/red destruction deck using this and Crusher Zendikon as my cards of focus. I can remove all of their lands from the game on fourth turn, then it's just a matter of picking their remaining lands and creatures off and whittling them down to nothing. Or them conceding.
I give this a 4.5 for use and a 5.0 for awesomeness.
Even though it's wrong to, I'm going to go ahead and comapre this to the new Sever The Bloodline.
Both cost 4CMC, and both exile a creature, although Sever the Bloodline is less colour intensive and is not restricted to nonblack creatures.
Eradicate has a taped-on Surgical Extraction effect, while Sever The Bloodline employs a watered-down Maelstrom Pulse quality. Eradicate thus can rip strategies apart, while Sever The bloodline can wreck someone's board position, so they employ two dIfferent ways of awesome.
Eradicate is an UNCOMMON (Blimey!), but Sever the Bloodline does have Flashback; it can exile at least two creatures that threaten your board with its use...
AAAGGHHH bugger, they both win! It really depends if you wish to establish board dominance or just want to rip a combo to bits, but let's use them BOTH!!!
That's the strength of this card. Most decks include a 3 or 4-of of a fantastic creature as a wincon. Eradicate, and you're not only removing a big threat from the field, but you're also sucking wincons right out of their deck. If this thing were around when GR Valakut ramp was stomping all over standard (thanks mainly to Primeval Titan), I would have been very surprised if it didn't at least see sideboard spots.
I don't know about you guys, but I hope to God that I get a chance, at some point, to use this against someone sporting mountains beefed up with Awaken the Ancient from M14! (http://www.magicspoiler.com/mtg-spoiler/awaken-the-ancient/)
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Eradicate is really funny in casual when you and your opponent don't know each other's decks very well.
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I give this a 4.5 for use and a 5.0 for awesomeness.
That's why this is an awesome card. :)
Both cost 4CMC, and both exile a creature, although Sever the Bloodline is less colour intensive and is not restricted to nonblack creatures.
Eradicate has a taped-on Surgical Extraction effect, while Sever The Bloodline employs a watered-down Maelstrom Pulse quality. Eradicate thus can rip strategies apart, while Sever The bloodline can wreck someone's board position, so they employ two dIfferent ways of awesome.
Eradicate is an UNCOMMON (Blimey!), but Sever the Bloodline does have Flashback; it can exile at least two creatures that threaten your board with its use...
AAAGGHHH bugger, they both win! It really depends if you wish to establish board dominance or just want to rip a combo to bits, but let's use them BOTH!!!
Tinker -> Blightsteel
You
Dark Ritual -> Eradicate
Plain and simple...
That's the strength of this card. Most decks include a 3 or 4-of of a fantastic creature as a wincon. Eradicate, and you're not only removing a big threat from the field, but you're also sucking wincons right out of their deck. If this thing were around when GR Valakut ramp was stomping all over standard (thanks mainly to Primeval Titan), I would have been very surprised if it didn't at least see sideboard spots.
Player 1 casts Mirror Entity
Player 2 exclaims, "Ugh, ANOTHER Mirror Entity?! How many of those do you HAVE in the deck?!"
Player 1 says, "I have four of them in the deck. Yes, that's right."
Player 2 plays Eradicate on the Mirror Entity.
Player 1 does a facepalm.