At first glance, there's not much synergy
between Crypt Ghast's two abilities. I suppose
the ability to produce more mana from each of
your Swamps helps you more easily afford the
extort cost given by this and other cards you
may be playing with? I don't know, I have a
feeling that people are going to be picking this
guy just for his mana-doubling ability. There
are so many black X-spells and shades and the
like that it's hard to fail to find a combo deck
that he can go in.
Welcome back readers todays card of the day is
either heinously overrated or herald’s the
return of mono black control decks. In standard
doubling your swamps is a unique effect and this
card combines perfectly with the black aligned
shocklands making it a potential contender for
heavily black based decks. The extort ability
obviously combines perfectly with the excess
amount of mana you will be producing. This card
is better than people are giving it credit for
but not as good as some people think, with the
right tools mono black could easily become a
contender. In modern, legacy and vintage this
card provides a unique effect at a reasonable
mana cost but has a somewhat fragile body and
doesn’t slot easily into most decks making it an
awkward choice. In casual and multiplayer this
is an insane effect extort is even more powerful
the more players you add to the mix making it a
fine addition to the already powerful mono black
control decks around the kitchen tables. In
limited it’s a body but its usefulness depends
on how deep you are in black, a reasonable pick
but requires a heavy commitment to show its true
power. Overall a powerful casual card with some
constructed applications.
Today's card of the day is Crypt Ghast which is
a four mana 2/2 with Extort (pay one Black or
White when casting a spell to have each opponent
lose one life and you gain that much life) and
adds one Black to your pool whenever you tap a
Swamp for mana. The cost of getting this
into play is a little high for Constructed or
Casual, but providing reasonable acceleration
and lifetapping once it is in play makes it
useful enough. Pumpable creatures and X
spells are a natural companion to this and if
something like Dark Ritual gets this into play
early it can certainly make an impact for a
mono-Black deck.
For Limited this is weakened a bit by the format
promoting multicolor decks, but adding some mana
and Extort are reasons enough to include this in
Sealed's half-Black decks. For Booster
this is a weaker first pick that at least
doesn't lock you into one guild which allows
some flexibility in later choices.
Welcome to another great card of the day here
at Pojo.com. Today we are looking at Crypt Ghast
from Gatecrash. Crypt Ghast is a rare black
creature spirit. Crypt Ghast costs three generic
and one black mana and is a 2/2. Crypt Ghast has
Extort, which means whenever you cast a spell,
you may pay an additional one white or black
mana to make each opponent lose one life, you
gain life equal to the life lost this way. Crypt
Ghast also says whenever a swamp is tapped for
mana, it produces an additional black mana.
Crypt Ghast is amazing. I love mana
acceleration. Usually it costs a lot of mana to
gain advantage. But at just four mana, Crypt
Ghast is a very cheap means to accelerate mana.
And mana advantage is key, especially when five
mana turns to ten.
And since Crypt Ghast also has extort, you will
have plenty of mana to pay additional mana to
activate the extort.
A really great card that is only a rare.
Crypt Ghast
A little black Mana Flare with legs with a
bonus. There's little reason to not play
this in limited. Extort can help, and the
mana acceleration can help you get out something
huge quick. In draft, I hate to open my
first pack and see this guy, but I'd love to see
him in my 2nd or 3rd after I've already
committed to black. He's not that
dangerous, but it will make a player happy if it
gets passed around. In constructed,
someone is going to try some weird black and
blue clone deck, get a bunch of these on the
board and randomly X spell someone. It
will be very fun, but at 2/2 this guy will die 7
ways to Sunday, and even he even slightly makes
a ripple in constructed, it won't take any time
for people to adjust. In the right
metagame he could be a pivotal component that
wins some big tournament one weekend, and will
never be seen again after that.
