That life drain is...so bad. You don't gain a straight 4 life so if you use this to kill smaller things, it gets worse.
The card looks okay as a sorcery honestly.
If this was a 4/4 for 5 mana that dealt 4 damage when it came down, drained life, and milled 4, maybe we would look at it differently.
This is not correct. Even if you use this on a 1/1 you do gain 4 life. Creatures don’t die in the middle of a spell resolving, so the spell fully resolves, then the game sees the targeted creature with 4 damage on it and then, if it has less than 4 toughness it dies.
To the confused Standard/Modern players in this thread: Tomik seems to specifically target a tier 1 legacy deck known as "Lands" that plays 40+ lands and abuses Life from the Loam, Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage
So... People used to moan and complain about how ridiculously OP Baneslayer Angel was, but I haven't really heard a peep about this one. What happened? Has powercreep continued since 2010?
Basically, it narrates Jace's investigation throughout Innistrad going off from clues found in Tamiyo's Journal and Markov Manor, enhanced by his telepathic skills. He finds that something is wrong with the sea, with the moon, with the werewolves (who have "a network of tough sinew of varying thicknesses that had grown to such an extent...They connected in some places in thick nodules, clustered together.").
His search leads him to the Drownyard Temple, where a bunch of monoliths are twisting the mana and leylines of the plane to an unknown purpose.
Most interestingly, he finds these pieces of information in the Journal: "Taken in total, the findings presented in this work support the presence of an object of significant mass. Most likely a new astral body, an eldritch moon of sufficient size as to provide a gravitational pull able to disrupt the normal patterns of both the tides and magical energy."
"Recent measurements of moon phase durations have shown asymmetric alterations. The implication is that the moon's orbit itself is being pulled in some direction by a very large, very nearby object still invisible to humanoid eyes."
Emmara wins, with a little help from her friends. (defeating a few nasty villains along the way, in the form of Exava, Mirko and Melek).
Niv shows up and is mad. He is defeated after a gruelling duel against Jace and Ral, who feels betrayed by his guild.
Teysa casually kills the Obzedat and assumes control of the Orzhov, which now become less dark and ghastly and zombies and stuff.
Aurelia fails and is replaced by Feather, when everyone realizes how stupid she is. Gideon cameos.
Borbo gets replaced by Ruric after a big boys brawl.
The prize from the maze doesn't exist because what really matters is the journey and how the guilds learned to coexist and blablabla. Lazav is still there and plotting at the end.
Moderator Action: Warning
Per the Forum Rules, use of the word "retarded" outside of an appropriate mental health context is not allowed.
~kaburi
Mono Blue in general, be it Vendilion, Azami, Arcum or whatever else.
I've also gotten some flak about my Teysa, Orzhov Scion, mostly when i manage to setup a Grave Pact/Martyr's Bond lockdown or Darkest Hour infinite combo.
This is not correct. Even if you use this on a 1/1 you do gain 4 life. Creatures don’t die in the middle of a spell resolving, so the spell fully resolves, then the game sees the targeted creature with 4 damage on it and then, if it has less than 4 toughness it dies.
Lemme introduce you to The Scarab God
As it says in the flavour text of Structural Distortion: As Zendikar bled, so will Innistrad.
She's out for the whole plane.
Basically, it narrates Jace's investigation throughout Innistrad going off from clues found in Tamiyo's Journal and Markov Manor, enhanced by his telepathic skills. He finds that something is wrong with the sea, with the moon, with the werewolves (who have "a network of tough sinew of varying thicknesses that had grown to such an extent...They connected in some places in thick nodules, clustered together.").
His search leads him to the Drownyard Temple, where a bunch of monoliths are twisting the mana and leylines of the plane to an unknown purpose.
Most interestingly, he finds these pieces of information in the Journal:
"Taken in total, the findings presented in this work support the presence of an object of significant mass. Most likely a new astral body, an eldritch moon of sufficient size as to provide a gravitational pull able to disrupt the normal patterns of both the tides and magical energy."
"Recent measurements of moon phase durations have shown asymmetric alterations. The implication is that the moon's orbit itself is being pulled in some direction by a very large, very nearby object still invisible to humanoid eyes."
Confirmed enough?
Niv shows up and is mad. He is defeated after a gruelling duel against Jace and Ral, who feels betrayed by his guild.
Teysa casually kills the Obzedat and assumes control of the Orzhov, which now become less dark and ghastly and zombies and stuff.
Aurelia fails and is replaced by Feather, when everyone realizes how stupid she is. Gideon cameos.
Borbo gets replaced by Ruric after a big boys brawl.
The prize from the maze doesn't exist because what really matters is the journey and how the guilds learned to coexist and blablabla. Lazav is still there and plotting at the end.
Moderator Action: Warning
Per the Forum Rules, use of the word "retarded" outside of an appropriate mental health context is not allowed.
~kaburi
I've also gotten some flak about my Teysa, Orzhov Scion, mostly when i manage to setup a Grave Pact/Martyr's Bond lockdown or Darkest Hour infinite combo.