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[Gren]

Card of the Day for Friday, September 21st 2012

Card Name »  Slaughter Games

Mana Cost » 2BR

Expansion » Return to Ravnica

Type » Sorcery

Card Text » Slaughter Games can't be countered by spells or abilities.

Name a nonland card. Search target opponent's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with that name and exile them. Then that player shuffles his or her library.

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Legal in »  Vintage, Legacy, Commander, Extended, Standard, Modern

Gren's Thoughts » One of Rakdos' other interesting cards. This would be the answer to my deck if I ran it, and the answer to most, if not all, blue combo decks. It can't be countered, so really, there is very little stopping it. It's also a very good answer for Eldrazi that won't go away. I like it, it's cheap for what it can do, and I'm sure it would see plenty of play.

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[Bedabest]

A bit expencive but good.

[Siyanor]

It's cheap for what it can do? It's the same cost as everything else that does the same thing.

[Gren]

But they can be countered no?

[n00bdragon]

Needing both red and black kind of hurts this card. Red black decks don't generally want or need combo hate. I still think Cranial Extraction is the best card for this purpose for the sheer variety of decks it can go in. If you happen to be running red and black this might be viable but otherwise it's no reason to go red.

[Siyanor]

Well, let's see... Memoricide allows you to choose to exile less than all of the cards with that name, but that situation wouldn't come up very often... Cranial Extraction is Arcane, though, so.. yeah, Extraction is probably better.


I would say the uncounterable from Slaughter Games is better than the potential damage from Thought Hemorrhage, though.

Edited by Siyanor, 21 September 2012 - 09:15 PM.

[n00bdragon]

To be a total pedant Cranial Extraction doesn't have to remove all copies. You can always fail to find cards in a hidden zone. Though I guess with Memoricide you could leave some of the cards in their graveyard with extraction they would have to go. Bleh.