Favourite MtG cards?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Mr. President
I think this guy might have an edge over the Sliver Queen from Tempest in that her ability makes generic Slivers with no abilities.

Imagine having them both.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by loinburger
White and Green can't get out their weenies fast enough and don't have enough mana to fuel a Circle of Protection, and Red is in the same boat (unless Black is stupid and draws so many cards that Red gets an easy win with a lightning bolt). If your opponent got a Dark Ritual and a Necropotence on his first draw, then you were usually ****ed.

I smell Balance

[Urban Ranger]

The Divergent Growth card is pretty vicious.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by loinburger
Library of Leng is fantastic, but it doesn't prevent your opponent from drawing a zillion cards using Necropotence, since it only skips your discard phase, not your opponent's.

That's true, but since the opponent still has a discard phase, he still needs to discard his hand down to 7 cards, right?

[Immortal Wombat]

I just played a game with a guy who brought out Phage.

I knocked him off with a Smouldering Tar.

[Immortal Wombat]

Crap that was close. Wouldnt want to meet Scion of Darkness again in a hurry. He had me royally raped until he used the Scion to gain control of a Phyrexian Delver, which then brought back another Scion, which promptly lost him his last 7 life My life total? 1. (with one creature to his 5, and no cards in hand.)

yay for stupidity

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
That's true, but since the opponent still has a discard phase, he still needs to discard his hand down to 7 cards, right?

Yup, but Black is usually able to reduce his hand size thanks to Dark Rituals. Two swamps and three Dark Rituals spells a lot of Black weenies on the second turn.

IIRC, black draws on the discard phase with Necropotence (I don't have the card text in front of me), so if you were somehow able to Donate him a Library of Leng then you could potentially keep him cardless for life.

There's another card that I thought would always work well with Donate, but I can't remember its name. It's something like, "Cumulative Upkeep: Remove the top card of your deck from the game. If you do not pay this upkeep, then remove your deck from the game. At any time you may remove the top card of your deck from the game and gain 1 life." Could you just imagine getting stuck with a card like that? "Hooray, I have lots of life, and no deck! Clearly I am the winner!"

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by loinburger
Yup, but Black is usually able to reduce his hand size thanks to Dark Rituals. Two swamps and three Dark Rituals spells a lot of Black weenies on the second turn.

True, but that would be a bit costly, unless he's somewhat lucky with his draws. Think about it. If he wants to keep one swamp and 3 Dark Rituals (highly unlikely to pull all 3 of the remaining ones), he has only room for 3 weenies. Speaking of which, what Black weenies are there, except some skeletons?

Anyway, that looks like a Necropotence - black weenie deck is going to have problems with a straight white weenie deck.

Originally posted by loinburger
IIRC, black draws on the discard phase with Necropotence (I don't have the card text in front of me), so if you were somehow able to Donate him a Library of Leng then you could potentially keep him cardless for life.

Now that would be nasty, but probably wouldn't work on the first turn, unless you get to go first. It's also a sorcery. Now if it's an Instant, the card would be just very, very deadly.

Originally posted by loinburger
There's another card that I thought would always work well with Donate, but I can't remember its name. It's something like, "Cumulative Upkeep: Remove the top card of your deck from the game. If you do not pay this upkeep, then remove your deck from the game. At any time you may remove the top card of your deck from the game and gain 1 life." Could you just imagine getting stuck with a card like that? "Hooray, I have lots of life, and no deck! Clearly I am the winner!"

Oooh. That's vicious. Is it a real card?

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Crap that was close. Wouldnt want to meet Scion of Darkness again in a hurry.

What's that?

BTW, what's this "converted mana cost" bit?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
What's that?

Card Name: Scion of Darkness
Mana Cost: 5BBB
Type & Class: Creature - Avatar
Pow/Tou: 6/6
Card Text: Trample. Whenever Scion of Darkness deals combat damage to a player, you may put target creature card from that player's graveyard into play under your control. . Cycling 3 (3, Discard this card from your hand: Draw a card)

BTW, what's this "converted mana cost" bit?

That's what I'd like to know.

[DinoDoc]

Bump

[DinoDoc]

Let's try this one more time.

[DinoDoc]

Sigh

[Urban Ranger]

Stop spamming. You need to wait a bit.

[DinoDoc]

Sorry.