Pyroclasm-style effects are a lot rarer nowadays
than they used to be, much less at instant speed
- that alone made me sit up and take notice of
this card. When I realized that it's also
on-theme for the Eldrazi (and Rise of the
Eldrazi) in discouraging opposing small-creature
swarms while leaving your larger creatures
relatively unharmed, and clears the path of
anything up to and including Siege Rhino (almost
uncounterably, too!) when your big Eldrazi
finisher is on its way, I started to think it
was a top-class card. And when I remembered what
devoid does and how much misery Kor Firewalker
still causes people, I decided I'd be surprised
if it didn't end up being one of the most
in-demand cards in Oath of the Gatewatch.
How to make pyroclasm a $20 card. add additional
1 mana cost, make it instant speed with a
useless keyword (seriously, i'm glad this is
probably the end of Devoid), make it mythic, and
add a recursion effect that benefits a very
small minority of players who use big eldrazi.
