Pyrrhic Revival is an interesting card, but it's
rather hard to use effectively. There are quite
a few ways to break the symmetry, though, and if
your opponent won't benefit as much as you do if
most of his creatures are cheap and thus have
lower toughness. An interesting card to consider
for a fun kind of theme deck.
Constructed: 1/5
Casual: 3/5
Limited: 2/5
PsychoAnime
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Magic Noob in Canada since 2002
Pyrrhic Revival
A very powerful effect only with something like
Necroskitter on the field. Otherwise it's too
costly since it might not shift the game into
your favour very much, compared to something
like Cloudthresher or Oona which pretty much
says you lose. This is fine in casual though,
but only casual.
Constructed: 1.5/5
Casual: 2/5
Limited: 1.5/5
Miguel
Wednesday 10-1-08
Pyrrhic Revival
Constructed:
Interesting take on living death. I won't stock
my deck with alot of 1/1's. Pointless. Know if
you had some cool come into play abilities than
it can be a fun card to play around with. A
little slow of Standard or Block. Do not really
want their critters coming back because you
never know what will be in their decks.
Casual:
Make a weird Blowfly Infestation deck with
Crumbling Ashes.
Limited:
Not a high pick on my list of stuff to play
with. If you manage to get a Kulrath Knight,
than I might try to use it.
Overall a fun card for the casual and
multi-player crowds.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 4
Limited: 2
One
more day until Shards of Alara.
Later
Miguel
BeJose
Pyrrhic Revival
3(W/B)(W/B)(W/B) Sorcery
Each player returns each creature card in his or
her graveyard to play with an additional -1/-1
counter on it.
Nice mass recursion spell, stops tricks with
persist which is a shame but theres plenty of
ways around it (Heartmender?). Also basically
useless for X/1's. To slow for constructed and
no real use, aggro decks while have plenty of
targets but with tiny P/T afterwards while
control while hardly have any targets.
Interesting in multi, build aroundable in casual
and depending on what your opponent is playing
gamewinning in limited.
Constructed: 1.5/5
Casual: 2.5/5
Limited: 3.5/5
BMoor
Pyrrhic Revival
The fact that it's symmetrical makes me think it
has to be combo potential, or at least that it
wants to be in a deck with a lot of -1/-1
counter tricks. I'm thinking maybe Heartmender,
or Soul Snuffers, or possibly even Tatterkite. I
don't think you'd use it in any reanimator deck,
though, since it will bring back your opponent's
army as well.
