I guess this isn't so bad as a sideboard option if you're planning on using Life's Finale...
but this card seems pretty bad all around. Especially due to the existance of black sun's zenith in the same block.
I guess its maybe a serviceable option in limited against puny flying aggro. If you live long enough to spit it out.
Posted By:
SeiberTross
(5/16/2011 10:47:55 AM)
2.5 for the flavor text XD
Posted By:
BastianQoU
(5/18/2011 12:33:52 AM)
Awww! Poor Babar! :'-( C'est tres mal!
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(5/26/2011 3:49:26 PM)
7 mana and a creature to pay for a card that will kill your other creatures as well as your opponents?
Even if it only affected your opponent's side of the board this would be way over costed.
The only possible situation I can think of for this, that isn't done better by another card in the exact same block, is if your opponent has out Melira and Asceticism with the mana to regen his important creatures. That would make him immune to targetted removal and BSZ, as well as effectively immune to Day of Judgement/Life's Finale. But how often is that going to happen even in standard play that you would feel the need to side this crap card in?
Posted By:
JoralG
(5/30/2011 10:07:08 AM)
Here's the only decent-sized art image for Ichor Explosion that I could find:
http://img.aegen.nl/NPH/Ichor%20Explosion.jpg
...This was disappointing. I wanted exploding elephant wallpaper.
Posted By:
Salient
(12/30/2011 1:25:34 PM)
With phyrexian mana symb it would have been too good and maybe rare , 3 and two black should have been the cost , it's the same cost as havoc demon which you can sacrifice to something to get the same effect or keep it as a 5/5 flyer and use it when you want .
Posted By:
MojoVince
(9/30/2012 5:27:22 AM)
Well, it IS only an uncommon. Sorry guys, but you're not geting a Damnation replacement at Uncommon, even if saccing a big enough creature is required. You're just gonna have to accept there are particular standards that have to be adhered to in card design (even if Wizards does completely miss the point with some).
Posted By:
psychichobo
(4/27/2013 4:02:24 PM)
One area in which this beats Damnation is it's not only going to wipe anything >9 toughness, indestructible or not, but it's going to wipe anything >9 toughness that comes out as a triggered ability from something dying (e.g. Moldgraf Monstrosity. Mind, anything that triggers from those creatures ETB/dying would take place as well.
Posted By:
jfre81
(12/4/2013 7:26:37 PM)
haha, any Hyalopterous Lemure type effect means that this can give infinite +X/+X to all creatures :)
Posted By:
OstravaBoletaria
(12/29/2013 9:30:08 AM)
If you sacrifice a creature with power less than 0, such as a Hyalopterous Lemure whose ability was activated 5 or more times, Ichor Explosion counts the power as if it was zero. It doesn't suddenly give +X/+X because the creature has negative power. See 107.1b. Ichor Explosion and the Lemure is just 7 mana spent to sacrifice your Lemure and do nothing else.
I agree that it seems this should have cost at least {1} less. My guess is WotC didn't want it to be too good as its an uncommon and could have warped draft, and at 7 CMC it would be safe from doing that. I wish it were cheaper, as I'd be much more tempted to run it. I guess iIf I had a deck with a sacrifice theme and wanted one more board wipe, I would consider running this. I think it'd be better in Kresh, the Bloodbraided than Wanderer25 gives it credit for, and could be run in addition to Bloodfire Infusion, another underplayed card, rather than one or the other... (see all)
Posted By:
sarroth
(2/16/2014 10:28:38 AM)