Tuesday, May 14, 2013

A pox on both your houses

You gotta love any time a magic card busts out fractions. And we're not talking P/T, we're talking old school straight up, fractions. Combine that with my favorite casting cost of all time, BBB, and you get one hell of a card.

Pox

And the icing on the cake? "Round each loss up", magnificent. Apparently the guys at Wizards also like this card because they keep bringing it back. Originial printing 1995, then the core set in 1997. But I guess someone realized cards like Pox and Balance didn't belong and it disappeared for a while. However they did find a way to sneak it back in. Sort of. Sadly the fractions were gone but for those of use who remember the good old days this guy did the trick. In 2006 we got Time Spiral's Smallpox.

Smallpox

Oh baby that's a card. Sure you have to lose one life, that blows. But everything else is all upside, discard a card, don't mind if I do

Haakon, Stromgald Scourge

Oh you mean I must sacrifice a creature? Too bad I haven't played one yet. Sacrifice a land, ok fine if I must

Flagstones of Trokair

It might as well be



And they brought it back for standard in 2011 with new, albeit, much shittier art.

Smallpox

Which brings us to today. They made the card 1,000,000 times worse by upping the cost to "unplayable" and unfortunately it now only targets one player. But hey they can't all be winners.

Undercity Plague

1 comment:

  1. I really wanted Undercity Plague to be my kill card... but six to case is just insane EVEN IF you guaranteed to cause your opponent to lose two life, two cards, and two permanents with a successful attack.

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