At lot
seems to have been made of Lyzolda's future as a
constructed powerhouse. I have to say that I'm
not convinced. For all her power and speed, I
just keep coming back to her casting cost and
her toughness. On the one hand, her 3 casting
cost is quite cheap. However, three mana is a
tricky number. Even playing first, your opponent
has two mana available to them. And two mana is
enough for about a thousand ways of countering
or destroying a 3/1 creature. I think Lyzolda
may find a place, but she's not going to become
a huge legendary powerhouse like some of the
things we've seen out of Kamigawa block. As for
limited, she's obviously very good. There are
some decks which will be nearly shut down by
repetitive burn. Then again, some decks will be
packed to the gills with Electrolyze, Pyromatics
and Darkblast. And she's going to be taking a
lot of that in the next few months.
If you're going with the Red/Black builds
that are supposed to be pretty solid with
the Dissension set, then Lyzolda is pretty
damn good. Damage on the stack, and
your creature is about to die, you pay 2
and either do to damage to creature or
player, or draw a card, or BOTH. Very evil.
One thing that Red beats and burn can always
use is more cards in hand, and Lyzolda gives
you a way to accomplish that.
Very solid, in any format.
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CONSTRUCTED: 4.5
CASUAL: 4
LIMITED: 3
BMoor
Lyzolda, the
Blood Witch
Basically, she lets you sacrifice a creature to
either draw a card, or kill a creature of
theirs. If you know anything about card
advantage, you know killing your opponent's card
is equivalent to getting a card yourself. So
often your sacrifice will result in the
equivalent of two cards gain. Remember the last
card we had that let you sacrifice a creature to
get two cards? It was called Skullclamp. It was
banned after about two months because it
completely broke every format wide open. Well,
this time you can do it at instant speed, in
colors where creatures are expected to die
frequently, for one more mana. She's also a 3/1
for 1RB, which could either make her even more
powerful (at least Skullclamp needed another
creature out to be any good) or less powerful (Darkblast
anyone?). I suppose only time will tell, but
keep your eyes on this crazy witch.
Constructed- 4
Limited- 4
Casual- 4
This card is neat, because it fits a couple of
different deck types. And its one of the few
cheap and efficient ways that Black and (more
importantly) Red have that allows them card
drawing. She is gold. She is easy to kill.
However, those drawbacks are worth it.
