Devour in Shadow

I'd say this is very comparable to Doom Blade...

This is...horrible.

Or mabye Im still thinking like a new person and the life loss doesnt matter?

Life doesn't matter at all.

Moved to the correct section. :3

Doesn't seem worth the life loss, frankly. Black's already very suicidal, with Bob, phyrexian arena, Sign in Blood and generally being easily vulnerable, while sporting removal like GftT, Doom Blade, Victim of Night, Mutilate, BSZ, Damnation, Geth's Verdict, Barter in Blood, Liliana... Probably a ton more, and that's only spells.

I see absolutely no selling point to this card.

Thank you, love<3


And in response: Not specific? You get to target the creature?

And what do you kill, that's common enough to warrant the pseudo-cost, that GftT/Doom Blade/Victim of Night doesn't kill?

It doesn't kill off Affinity, Arcbound Ravager, solemn, wurmcoil, etc.
Which are appearing more than a lot of things lately.
Which I would rather use this than GftT because it does it more effectively without being too costly. Lose life, gets rid of the biggies. You can usually still regenerate, which this stops it, so it makes playing safer. If you're going to run black anyways, who cares about losing life when you are still going to win?

Black has lifelink.


Use this, then attack with your Nighthawk. No regrets.

Chandra Ablaze wrote:And what do you kill, that's common enough to warrant the pseudo-cost, that GftT/Doom Blade/Victim of Night doesn't kill?

That all together, nothing at all. Seperately though, many things. Those are specific, and don't hit regeneration. And, if you're going to run too many creature destructions, it just takes up too much space. Why not have just one that does the job perfectly?

Dae Breaker wrote:

Chandra Ablaze wrote:And what do you kill, that's common enough to warrant the pseudo-cost, that GftT/Doom Blade/Victim of Night doesn't kill?

That all together, nothing at all. Seperately though, many things. Those are specific, and don't hit regeneration. And, if you're going to run too many creature destructions, it just takes up too much space. Why not have just one that does the job perfectly?

That's fair enough then.

I was asking out of sheer curiosity, I didn't mean to imply you were wrong at any point. I'm not familiar enough with modern to be able to really know whether it's better/worse than the others. I also forget that it's a much quicker format, so you probably do need to be reckless to make sure you don't lose.

Although the idea of having to use this on a Goyf sounds terrible, but a risk I guess you have to take.

Chandra Ablaze wrote:

Dae Breaker wrote:

Chandra Ablaze wrote:And what do you kill, that's common enough to warrant the pseudo-cost, that GftT/Doom Blade/Victim of Night doesn't kill?

That all together, nothing at all. Seperately though, many things. Those are specific, and don't hit regeneration. And, if you're going to run too many creature destructions, it just takes up too much space. Why not have just one that does the job perfectly?

That's fair enough then.

I was asking out of sheer curiosity, I didn't mean to imply you were wrong at any point. I'm not familiar enough with modern to be able to really know whether it's better/worse than the others. I also forget that it's a much quicker format, so you probably do need to be reckless to make sure you don't lose.

Although the idea of having to use this on a Goyf sounds terrible, but a risk I guess you have to take.

Oh no, f*** that. I'd rather go for Doom, GftT.
If it is something like that, that is a risk you never take.
You never take more than 10 life if using this card, because you usually will have only one life left with MBC. You may be risky, but you also have to make sure you don't lose at all. Cards are better in some situations, but that is what a sideboard is for, not a maindeck.

The Problem is that Dismember kills most of the stuff this thing kills for 4 Lifes Max and costing 1 Colorless Mana

-Griselbrand- wrote:The Problem is that Dismember kills most of the stuff this thing kills for 4 Lifes Max and costing 1 Colorless Mana

Was gonna say this too.

Dismember kills anything with 4 toughness.

Then, if you really need more removal (Which I doubt in Modern), you can use Smother, which would basically kill anything Devour in Shadow can do usually without taking the damage from Dismember.

Otherwise, Doom Blade.

.Rai wrote:Dismember kills anything with 5 toughness.

Fix'd

Also there is Vendetta