A 5/5 with infect is a scary concept, as it
threatens to two-shot you if unanswered. This
one can't attack you unless you've already been
damaged by a source with infect, or if you've
lost a creature to either Pistus Strike or
Virulent Wound, or been the target of Decimator
Web's ability. Any player using Chained
Throatseeker will have no difficulty unchaining
it, at which point it laughs at your attempts to
put Wall of Denial in front of it and quickly
shows you its fangs. And even if your opponent
just can't seem to get that first poison counter
on you, Chained Throatseeker is no less scary
for your creatures when it's available to block.
You have a 6/6 with trample? First strike would
be more useful, otherwise you'll kill the
Throatseeker and be left with a 1/1 trampler.
Even creatures it can't kill, it can quite badly
hobble. Gives new meaning to the term "chump
blocking". I'm only glad it doesn't have flying
or vigilance.
It's unfortunate this card doesn't have room for
flavor text; I would have liked to hear what the
people holding the chains thought of their job.
Regardless, Chained Throatseeker is a pretty
scary card in a deck with lots of infect cards,
and although it lacks the all-round solidity or
impact of Skithiryx or Phyrexian Hydra, it can
definitely get the job done. If infect wasn't
the strongest strategy in Scars of Mirrodin
draft before, it might just be now.
Magic The Gathering Card of The Day: Chained
Throatseeker
Welcome back readers today’s card of the day is
an interesting blue infect creature from New
Phyrexia. In standard, extended, and eternal I
don’t feel this card will ever see play unless a
blue infect deck desperately needs a wall or a
beefy attacker, even then it’s a horrible card
that is outclassed by most everything else
going on in the formats. In casual and
multiplayer this card is almost as bad and one
of the few reasons to play it is the fact you
have no better options, although it can be a
beefy wall and some opponents are hesitant to
shrink their own creatures so it may be
passable. In limited it’s a decent filler
creature whether or not you are in infect it may
be a beefy wall or an infect beat down creature
it is also splashable. Overall a card best
suited for limited.
Today's card of the day is Chained Throatseeker
which is a six mana 5/5 Blue creature with
Infect that can only attack if the defending
player is already poisoned. This isn't
that major of a drawback in a dedicated Infect
or Proliferate and Infect deck as by the time
this comes into play they should have at least
one or more counters on them. The casting
cost and lack of Flying or any other form of
evasion are bigger issues that make it less
attractive compared to cards that can be played
earlier in the game. While Blue doesn't
have many Infect options it can play artifacts
or Proliferate and this can be used defensively,
but again the card design leaves it a poor
choice as a finisher with no supporting effect
to augment the Infect.
For Limited if you can draft or open multiple
sources of Infect this can be a decent threat,
but without that it makes for an intimidating
wall that will shut down most offensive efforts
until it can get removed.
Easily splashed into a Black or Green pool in
Sealed as the mana cost only includes one Blue
and an aggressive draft can benefit from 5/5
with Infect. Overall this is a common with
a small drawback if properly supported and as a
large creature can be drafted relatively early
in Booster either to use or prevent others from
using it against you.
Welcome to the
last preview card this week at Pojo.com. Today’s
card is Chained Throatseeker. Chained
Throatseeker costs five generic and one blue
mana. He Chained Throatseeker is a 5/5 with
infect, but cannot attack unless the defending
player is poisoned.
With all the different ways of poisoning someone going around
(kind of like a flu), getting his attack
condition off isn’t that big of an issue. So
what is more fun is ensuring you do so in blue,
so you don’t stretch yourself thin. Some easy
ways are using artifact creatures with infect,
but there are some new cards coming in New
Phyrexia that make it even easier. Once poisoned
though, this guy could prove fatal as the final
blow by comboing him with another blue spell,
and that is Distortion Strike. Use Distortion
Strike with Chained Throatseeker and it well
could be game over, especially with how much
Proliferate blue has.
All in all this card could be better, but in terms of
getting his ability to fire off, I don’t see it
being a problem. That means that this card could
see some serious play, especially for the
prerelease and launch parties. Make sure you are
there yourself!
