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Pojo's Magic The Gathering
Card of the Day
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Mason
Peatross
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Again a card
that won't make it because of "kicker",
Urza's Rage is a great card. It's very playable,
costed correctly - overall a big success from
R&D.
I'd love to see it in 8th
Edition, but I know it doesn't have a snowball's
chance.
Limited: 5
Constructed: 5
8th Edition Readiness: 0
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Judge
Bill
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An extremely
effective spell for what it does. Slices, dices,
kills, and can't be countered. The mana cost is a
bit high, but, these days, it does 3 damage at
instant speed. Nothing does it for cheaper (if you
cast it the normal way) in type 2 these days.
Constructed or limited, a good card for most any
deck.
Constructed: 5
Limited: 5
This thing would be great to
have in 8th edition, but it has the same flaw as
Wednesday's cards do ... kicker. If they could
somehow remove the kicker and just make 3 damage
for 3 mana, uncounterable, it would be a great
card in 8th edition.
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John
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Urza's
Rage is a card I never want to see come back into
type II. The day it does will be the day I
quit Magic.
It manages to house blue a little too well,
especially since the only way blue can even deal
with it is with something like Misdirection or
Divert. Putting aside its kicker cost, which
pretty much means that unless there is a major
policy change this card will not be in 8th. it is
a broken card. It resembles the can cantrip
cards in a way, because it tacks 2 extra mana onto
a pre-existing spell to get something that is
supposedly better (2 Mana for uncounterable to a
Lightning Bolt.) RAge is also very
versatile, because it can be 3 for 3cc, or 10
damage that your opponent has to swallow like it
or not for 12. It is a card that can help
along a speedy death, or help to add to a slow,
agonizing demise against a control deck.
In constructed, it's broken. It's versatile.
It's red's best friend. Most of all,
there is no substitute in your deck. A 4.5
for constructed.
In limited, it was removal. It's good, and
making your opponent swallow 10 is fun, but there
is always better stuff. Agonizing Demise
would go before this in my opinion. Rage is
a good addition to any deck in limited, and will
be picked high, but it does not take precedence
over a spectacular card like Agonizing Demise.
A 4 in limited. With any luck, you get
both.
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Rob
Lawing
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Could
this be the last decent instant speed burn spell
we ever see ?
Although it is more
expensive than it's cousins Incinerate and the
late, lamented, Lightning Bolt, it is without
question a very good card. The uncounterability
makes the 2R cost ok and I have yet to find a red
deck that doesn't need this spell. I hope it makes
8th but with all the blue boys running R&D now
I am afraid that decent red instants are gone for
good.
Rating
Constructed 5
Limited 5
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Michael Garten
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Urza's
Rage is by far one of the best burn spells ever
printed. It offers a solid, almost guaranteed
three damage in the early game, killing smaller
creatures. Later, it provides a nearly unstoppable
ten damage, almost always killing an already
burn-damaged player. A 4.5 in constructed, a 4.5
in limited. Of all of the burn spells in the game,
Urza's Rage should be reprinted in eighth edition,
offering a solution to control decks, where no
solutions existed before.
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