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Horobi, Death's Wail
- Champions of Kamigawa
Reviewed
Feb. 6, 2017
Constructed: 2.00
Casual: 4.50
Limited: 3.50
Multiplayer: 3.75
Commander [EDH]: 4.50
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David Fanany
Player since
1995 |
Horobi, Death's Wail
The symmetry on Horobi's ability will probably
be a turn-off for some players; to be fair,
though, it's hard to make an effect like this
asymmetrical while still giving it a cost that
anybody can actually pay. The fact that it's a
double-edged sword and allows, for example,
direct damage spells to kill creatures that
would usually have too high a toughness makes it
more appealing for theme-based decks that
specifically build to take advantage of it. You
could go the Privileged Position route, or kill
huge things with Prodigal Pyromancer, or even
just stuff your deck with things that look for
creatures dying and ride the chaos. The
important thing is, Horobi poses lots of
questions for the deckbuilding process, and
that's a good thing.
Constructed: 2/5
Casual: 4/5
Limited: 3/5
Multiplayer: 3/5
EDH/Commander: 4/5
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James H. |
Horobi, Death's Wail (2/6)
Horobi’s stats are pretty
acceptable for his spot on the mana curve; a 4/4
with flying for 4 mana is actually a really good
deal. What makes Horobi unique isn’t his stat
line, though; it’s his ability, which attempts
to kill anything that gets targeted by anything.
This changes how a lot of
things interact, and the list includes:
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making Equipment useless. Since
Equipment attaches to
target creature as its
ability, that creature dies.
-
turning burn spells into Murder.
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giving cheap, reusable targeting
effects lethal power. This
includes things like Hex
Parasite’s ability to remove
counters, since it activates for
2 life.
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turns your targeting lands into
lethal lands, like Tower of the
Magistrate and Urborg.
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gives a use to weird and useless
old cards like Touch of
Darkness.
Horobi makes the game very
weird. Unfortunately, he's a fragile creature,
on virtue of his own ability marking himself for
destruction when he gets targeted. He's a blast
in Commander, since he forces the game along a
different axis, but I think you should stay away
in Constructed.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 5
Limited: 4
Multiplayer: 4.5
Commander: 5
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