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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Chris
Gerhardt |
Contaminated Bond - At least this guy is somewhat
useful in limited. If you are already going black,
it can be a way to slow something down, or make
attacking or blocking a really ugly proposition
for your opponent by costing him 3 life each time
he does. Not for constructed, but decent
late pick in draft and sealed.
Constructed:
3
Limited: 3
Current Price:
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Judge
Bill
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Friday -
Contaminated Bond
While this card can
be useful in limited, it is not in constructed.
This card requires a specific creature that
you've put this on to attack or block, or else
it is a dead card. It is true that you've
prevented that creature from attacking, but most
decks that run creatures have redundancies that
would basically ignore this card. So you need a
better card to get rid of the creature. This
gets oushed out in that department by Smother,
Terror, Dark Banishing, etc.
In limited, while it
suffers from the same limitations, it's a little
better, as limited decks can't rely on the same
redundancies as constructed decks can. Still, it
doesn't totally prevent the creature from
attacking or blocking, so it will usually either
continue to swing (if its power is >3 and its
controller has board control), or sit back and
block a 3+ power creature. I wouldn't play this,
but in a REALLY weak pool, I might be able to
see why you would have to.
Constructed: 1
Limited: 1.5
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Contaminated Bond
If there were more Juggernaut-type creatures, this
would be more
interesting. As it is, it is removal that is, in
most cases, worse than
just bouncing the creature, doesn't even actually
prevent anything,
including no penalty for activated abilities. So
it only goes in a very
aggressive deck, and only if you've got no other
pseudo-removal. limited 2.2 constructed 1.4
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Elazul |
Contaminated Blood:
Interesting. I can see this possibly finding its
way to MBC Sideboard. The
bad thing is, they would be willing to take that
3, while they hurt you even
more. It could possibly slow them down at best. a
simple Astral Slide and
its wasted. I really dont see very many Enchant
Creatures in this format at
all thanks to all the Astral Slides.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 3.5 |
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Shylo Elliott |
(Neurok Familiar)
This might be useful in some Mirrodin Block decks
that require many artifacts (Affinity). It can
fetch any artifact if you stack the deck right. In
Type 2 no artifact deck has taken control so it's
less useful. In Mirrodin Limited, if you're
playing blue and you got a lot of artifacts, go
for it. The 1/1 body might be fragile but it's
still a flier.
Type 2: 2
Mirrodin Block Constructed: 3
Mirrodin Block Limited: 4 |
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Luke |
Contaminated Bond
A poor attempt at a black pacifism. Play this on a
creature, and your opponent will use it to block
one of your bigger creatures. In contstructed, try
comboing with Onslaught uncommon, Walking
Desecration. Other than that, it's a waste of a
slot.
Constructed rating - 2
Limited rating - 1 |
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