MTG Salvation

...I totally missed "that many" the first time I read this card. It does what now?!

This card is horrible. It costs 3 mana and 4 life to destroy 1 creature? And it can’t even help you pay life on its own? Why is this a rare?

First, repeatable removal is usually a lot more.

Secondly, you're already paying life. Think of it this way: If you have Arguel's Blood Fast, activate it four times, you've already paid 8 life and 4BBBB and drawn four cards. Now you get to destroy a creature. Seems like a lot, and in Standard, it is a lot.

This is, however, not such a huge thing in EDH. Where of course I have access to much more extort and Aristocrats strategies, and Ye Olde Necropotence. And oh yeah, I start with 40 life too.

The idea is that if you already have a deck that pays life, this card says "destroy a creature whenever you want to and have two mana open" which seems pretty solid to me. There's not a lot of alternatives if you want something like that.

I don't know if this can really do anything in Standard, but Licia, Sanguine Tribune acknowledges its existence.

Someone at the boardroom had the chance and they failed. Garbage combo card

In a W/B Vampire shell this thing could be pretty good. Adanto Vanguard and Doom Whisperer incidentally killing creatures isn't too bad.

Don't forget the fact that we have a full 10 Shock-Lands now.

Also, Arguel's Blood Fast

hope ya'll are not forgetting that Shocklands exists.

also, popping a creature every time you activate Adanto Vanguard's ability doesn't sound like a terrible deal.

Definitely better than it looks in a format with shocklands and a lot of competitive creatures and effects that let you pay life for stuff.

Phyrexian mana incoming?

5 color decks using pay life any color

protective sphere IS modern playable and effectively reads pay 2 life prevent damage from any source with say Mana Confluence


Slaughter in a lifegain deck was pretty good.

Zur's Weirding anyone lol

Protective Sphere is NOT modern playable. It wouldn't even be modern playable if it were modern legal.