The Eye of Judgment Cards (strategy & trading)

[oldmike]

Originally Posted by Icemage

If you must discard stuff, there are better cards to use to throw away than Parmetic Holy Feast IMO. Sciondar's Inferno/Fist of Verzak/etc. come to mind. 2+ damage to 3-4 squares for the cost of two creatures that you may not be able to play effectively due to board considerations is pretty big.

I'm not saying that Parmetic Holy Feast is a bad card - it's not. I just think you get shortchanged in the exchange, since there are easier ways to earn a 2 Mana advantage (that and it dilutes the number of creature cards in your deck - not that every card should be a creature, but I've found that 5-7 spell cards is the practical limit, and there are equally good candidates that compete for those slots (Fissures of Gohlie, Beguiling Fog, Summoner Mesmer's Lapse).

All of the incarnations are great if you can find a way to summon them, but the MP cost is huge. Granted, you can replace one of your existing cards of that element with it to get them in play by paying the difference in cost, which is a nice perk, but you still have to be somewhat wary - and there's usually a couple of squares that your opponent can hide on. Generally speaking, you end up spending more Mana than you might otherwise spend killing the same creatures, but it just takes a little less time and fewer cards (which I agree is not a bad thing, but it's very situational).

Generally speaking, I find that games where I use these big Armageddon-loosing creatures tend to devolve into a game of who-draws-their-last-card-and-loses-first, since you just don't have the Mana to power their activation cost and put anything else on the board.

i dont like the trash 2 guy to dam all blank for many things
1 is its 3 cards in all and one must be a set type
2 most my game there realy rarely any more then 2 of any type of area

as for mana the only 2 cards i know are this one and goghlie altar and you can only have 1 per in a deck
(sad thing is i have 4 of these 2 cards and need so many cards_)

as for the big guys i have used them in 2 ways one is a comback card they can turn a game around the other is CUBEs