Against aggro decks, this'll usually stop 'em
dead as a 4/4 or bigger. Against control.... not
so much. It has the potential to be huge for its
mana cost, but it really suffers from the fact
that it gives your opponent a way to kill it,
and that way is by doing something most players
would like to do anyway-- have a lot of cards in
hand. Then again, it's black, the color of
discard spells...
Constricted- 2
Casual- 3
Limited- 3
David Fanany
Player since
1995
Nyxathid
Where was this guy when people still played
mono-black decks with The Rack? I think he can
be a very good creature for that style of deck,
which has a problem with discard spells becoming
less relevant late in the game. Time to dig up
your Delirium Skeins and Smallpoxes (you've
forgotten about Time Spiral's power cards
already? Shame on you!). In other situations,
though, he doesn't really do too much - it's
very difficult to guess with any degree of
certainty whether and how soon an opponent will
have no hand left in Alara block limited, for
example.
Constructed: 2/5
Casual: 3/5
Limited: 2/5
The Missing
Linc
-Balding
for just over 5 years
-Playing MTG for just over 10
Nyxathid
Tarma-Rack is back. Don't be surpised to see
this guy in quite a few discard decks. While
potentially small at first, the fact that you
could end up with a 7/7 for 3 is nothing to
laugh at. Like yesterday's card, the jury is
out. A card for a narrow range of constructed
decks but probably the most efficient creature
ever printed for the discard decks out there.
Constructed: 3 (5 for discard decks)
Casual: 3
Limited: 2
Miguel
Tuesday 3-3
Nyxathid
Constructed:
This was in the winning deck for the PTQ down in
SA Tx. It was a Rack type deck in Extended. With
all of that discard it can stay a good size beat
stick. Standard you need more variety to go
with it. But still a good card.
Casual:
Looks good at first, but in multi-player if the
opponent you choose leaves the game for whatever
reason, like dying, Nyxathid goes away too.
Limited:
Not a top pick in a 2 Shard and 1 Conflux draft.
Even if we were going heavy black, does not look
to good. But I could be proven wrong.
Overall a great card for Extended and older
formats.
Constructed: 4
Casual: 2
Limited: 2
Later
Miguel
Aethereal
Tuesday - Nyxathid
This has the potential to be a great card
against aggro decks...until they hit it with
Path to Exile. Against control, this thing
should never be bigger than 2/2. Therefore, this
won't get much play in standard. In extended,
however, I wouldn't be surprised if people tried
to resurrect the Tarmagoyf Rack deck with this
in there as some additional beef. That's about
the only place I can see this guy getting some
play time, though.
In limited, he could be decent as a 3/3 for 1BB,
but there's probably something better you can
pick in the pack.
