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Yawgmoth's Bargain
Reviewed August 18, 2004
Constructed: 4.41
Casual: 2.83
Limited: 2.83
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Judge
Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
*game store employee
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Wednesday -
Yawgmoth's Bargain
First, there was
Necropotence. Only 3 mana, and you had to
wait until the end of the turn to get the
cards. They apparently decided that making
it cost 3 more would be an OK cost to let
you get the cards right away.
Baaaaaaaaaaaaaad idea. I don't think if this
cost 10 mana that this card would be any
less broken (see: Academy Rector, in the
same set). At 6 mana, it just gives you the
possibility of getting it out sooner.
In casual, this
type card really isn't a card people build
their deck around, because it is a
"hardcore" tournament player's card.
In limited, no
thanks. The benefits this provides are far
outweiged by the drawbacks.
Constructed: 4.5
Casual: 2
Limited: 2
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Jeff Zandi
5 Time Pro Tour
Veteran
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Yawgmoth’s Bargain
Part of one of the most powerful and successful
combo decks of all time, Yawgmoth’s Bargain
delivered all the cards to your hand you wanted,
and unlike Necropotence, you received the cards
whenever you wanted, simply by sacrificing life
points. The downside was that Bargain cost six
mana. To get around this little problem, you
played with Grim Monolith (an artifact source
that taps for three colorless mana) and one of
the most old school mana accelerators of all
time, Dark Ritual. This, of course, was if you
had Bargain in your hand already. If you did
not, simply play Academy Rector, then sacrifice
it to Phyrexian Tower for mana, then search your
deck for Yawgmoth’s Bargain and put it directly
into play. You killed your opponent with either
Skirge Familiar, a very unwieldy 3/2 flyer for
4B that allowed you to discard a card to put a
black mana into your mana pool, or with Soul
Feast, a Drain Life effect for 3BB that did four
damage to your opponent and gained you four life
points. Yawgmoth’s Bargain was never a
particularly important card in limited, mostly
because it was rare and therefore hardly ever
encountered.
CONSTRUCTED: 4.0
CASUAL: 4.0
LIMITED: 3.5 |
Ray
"Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer |
Yawgmoth's Bargain
Hello, and welcome to one of the most broken
cards ever printed. What does Bargain have over
Necro that makes it worth three extra mana?
That’s easy, you get to draw the cards as soon
as you play this, meaning you can “go off” the
turn you play the card, and in a world of fast
mana, it was easy to get this out early and just
kill your opponent in on delicious combo-y turn.
Perhaps we should do a review of Dark Ritual, as
the first two cards this week are as amazing as
they are because of it.
Constructed: 5
Casual: 3
Limited: 4
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The Game Closet - Waco,TX) |
Wednesday - Yawgmoth's Bargain
This card caused so many different problems when
it was Standard legal. It was too easy to combo
with. Personally I think it wasn't limited
enough. It was highly flexible and easy to abuse
in it's day. Any card like this needs to be
better balanced in the future.
Constructed: 4
Casual: 2
Limited: 2.5 |
Paul
Hagan |
Yawgmoth's Bargain --
Paying a life to draw a card? How awful! This
card su...no, I'm kidding. This card is
obscenely powerful, and I'm really shocked that
it ever saw print. I guess that's what happens
when you cut back on R&Ds playtest time. The
ability to draw any number of cards you feel
like is just sick -- there is no surprise this
card is banned in Extended.
I'm not sure casual players would like this card
as much as tournament players, just because
decks using it are unforgiving and tedious to
play. There are much better options available
for fun decks, so I'd say pass this card up.
If I saw Yawgmoth's Bargain floating around in a
draft, I imagine I would scoop it and try
playing it, but I also think that I would only
get a couple cards per game off of it. Bargain,
in limited, seems like it would be just another
form of card draw.
Constructed Rating: 4.0 [or 1.0, since its
banned?]
Casual Rating: 2.0
Limited Rating: 3.0 |
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Andy
Van Zandt |
Yawgmoth's
Bargain
This card is very similar to time spiral in my
eyes- in that it's from the same block, and it's
a "fixed" version of an earlier overpowered
card, and more importantly, though they doubled
the converted mana cost in both cases, they also
made the effect stronger. Bargain doesn't have
Necro's restrictive bit about only getting the
cards at the end of the turn, and only as a
group, and Time Spiral untaps all that extra
mana you used to cast it... making that
basically not a drawback in comparison. In any
case, when you can get such a large amount of
cards in such a short time period, there's
always potential for too much power. And
whoever's idea it was to put Dark Ritual in the
block with this card should be shot.
constructed 4
casual 4
limited 4 |
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