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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Scott
Gerhardt
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Corrupt, the other Drain Life. It's the
other "X" spell that's really isn't an X spell.
You can hit for huge damage late or removal early.
It's a great for what it does. Black decks
can use this with Soul Feast as good kill
mechanisms.
In
limited, if you're playing 40% or more black, I'd
run it. Removal at almost any cost is good.
Constructed:
4
Limited: 3.5
Current Price:
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Chris
Gerhardt |
Just one more of Black
Control's removal spells, this card inflicts
direct damage to a creature or player. It seems
high-costed, and it's a sorcery, but by the time
Black has this kind of mana on the board, it's
done quite a few other low-costed nasty things to
you in the meantime, like Duress, Innocent Blood,
Chainer's Edict, Smother...
Corrupt can take
out a pesky creature, or it can deliver a final
blow to an opponent, or restore your life to a manageable
point when necessary. In limited, you really need
to be going fairly heavy black to make this
efficient. In constructed, it's a nice addition to
Black Control.
Constructed - 4
Limited - 2.5
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Judge
Bill
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At first there was
Drain Life. It cost 2 mana to start, but gave
you 1 life for each black mana thereafter. Then
came Soul Burn, which cost one more to do the
same thing.
Now, we have this
pseudo X-spell. I know, it doesn't have X in its
mana cost, but the X is the number of Swamps you
control. And it costs 6, whether it does 1
damage or 20 damage. That can be good or bad,
depending on how little the creature is and how
much mana you have.
One bonus this does
have over Drain Life and Soul Burn is that the
life gain is not limited by the creature's
toughness.
In limited, it's
removal. If you're playing swamps, you'll
typically want to play this.
Constructed: 2.75
Limited: 3.25
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Jon
Schweppe |
Wednesday - Corrupt
This card is thrilling me
more and more. In the right deck, black can
be a huge force. And it's one to be reckoned with.
Combined with tons of
great black cards, like Cabal Coffers, Haunting
Echoes, Soul Feast, Innocent Blood, Duress, Mirari,
and more, you can build
a mono-black deck that simply relies on spells to
win. Corrupt is deadly
after a lot of swamps are in play. Then Mirari
that. You can win the game in
one or two turns of constant direct damage.
Constructed: 4
Limited: 5 |
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Corrupt replaced drain
life in ye olde mono black decks, and has
the
benefit of being six mana even for a huge corrupt,
but the drawback of not
being capable of moving those small early threats,
and not being plussed by
rituals. It's uses in constructed only go as
far as very specific deck
types though. If you are playing heavy
amounts of swamps in limited, this
card is -amazing-, it can move fatties or
give you a good 10+ point life
swing, which will win a lot of games,
those that were stalled out or
roshambo contests.
constructed: 2.5
limited: 4 |
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