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Damnation
- Planar Chaos
Reviewed August , 2017
Constructed: 4.25
Casual: 4.25
Limited: 4.50
Multiplayer: 4.25
Commander [EDH]: 4.38
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David Fanany
Player since
1995 |
Damnation
The Time Spiral block sometimes feels like it
was made up of nothing but talking points, from
the timeshifted cards from the past to the forum
wars over Tarmogoyf. It's sometimes easy to
overlook the interesting alternate-universe card
interpretations from Planar Chaos, and although
not all of them have made it into "mainstream"
sets, they were certainly influential in their
way. Damnation may in fact have been the most
influential card from that set. In the short
term, it provided blue-black decks like Dralnu
du Louvre an option that would previously have
required them to add white (and probably become
an entirely different deck in the process). In
the long term, it paved the way for the
increased volume and playability of black
sweepers, from Life's Finale and Toxic Deluge
to Crux of Fate and Languish. It has become just
as much a part of Magic and Magic's history as
the white card it was once described as merely
"imitating".
Constructed: 4/5
Casual: 4/5
Limited: 5/5
Multiplayer: 4/5
EDH/Commander: 4/5 |
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James H. |
Damnation (8/16)
It's simple, and it’s
effective: kill all of the things for four mana.
The reason it's been so coveted, though, is that
it's the cheapest unconditional board sweeper
available to black in Modern (without a massive
rider on it), and Toxic Deluge does cost you
life to make the most of it (and is locked to
Legacy). It's efficient, cheap, and powerful,
and there's a reason why it was pushing $60
before its reprint.
Constructed: 4.5
Casual: 4.5
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 4.5
Commander: 4.75
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