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Combo Name: Rats without Life Submitted By: Turbine
Card Name
Type
Cost
P/T
Editions (ordered by release)

Djinn Illuminatus
 Creature - Djinn 5(UR)(UR) 142 Guildpact, Rare

Soul Warden
 Summon Cleric W (1/1) Exodus, Common

Plague of Vermin
 Sorcery 6B Shadowmoor, Rare

Tainted Sigil
 Artifact 1WB Alara Reborn, Uncommon
Estimated Combo Cost: $1.79
Date Posted: Thu Jan/14/10 at 5:44 am

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Pay most of your life for rats.  Before they come into play, sac Tainted Sigil for life. When they into play, you double your original life total. Next turn, replay the Plague with the Djinn.

 
Date Posted: Thu Jan/14/10 at 7:15am

flagshippredator
Posts: 101
Joined: 22-Dec-09

This doesn't work. You can't sac the artifact while the spell is resolving. And you can't play the sorcery the turn after. That's not how replicate works. The spell needs to be on the stack and the replication cost needs to be played before the passing of priority. Now... You can replicate it in the same turn. Paying most of your life, then before the original spell resolves you can sac the artifact to regain that life.When the copy resolves soul warden will trigger for X amount of times where X is the number of rats in play thus letting you pay even more life for the original spell. And you'll gain all that life back because of the soul warden. But it doesn't work the way you think. This would all have to be in the same turn and cost (14) mana to do.

[Edited by flagshippredator on 14/Jan/10 at 7:15AM]
Date Posted: Thu Jan/14/10 at 1:43pm

BaldEd
Posts: 18
Joined: 03-Jan-10

You don't need the Djinn at all. The way the Plague works, everyone has to pass in a round before the spell ends. As long as you pay at least 1 life each time it comes around to you, the spell continues. The best way I can see to play this is, with the Soul Warden in play, pay 10 life for 10 rats returning the life to you. When it comes back around to you, pay the same 10 life getting 10 more rats. Continue doing that until you feel that you have enough rats. Then play the Sigil and sack it to gain life for all the life paid by everyone. Not playing the Sigil until after the Plague is over helps encourage the other players to pay life that you can then gain as well as your own.
Date Posted: Thu Jan/14/10 at 1:54pm

gericault5
Posts: 2788
Joined: 13-Oct-09

Flagship  is right.  you can not gain life or nothing comes into play, until the spell finishes resolving.  you if want to play it 2 times instead of the djinn you can go with twincast and save some mana
Date Posted: Fri Jan/15/10 at 1:53am

JadeSun7
Posts: 11
Joined: 02-Jan-10

Actually, if you read Plague of Vermin carefully, it sounds like the rats don't even come into play until the spell has resolved.
Date Posted: Sun Jan/17/10 at 4:29am

Rokhan
Posts: 46
Joined: 20-Dec-09

I agree. Pay life X, after all life is payed put X rats into play.
Date Posted: Sun Jan/17/10 at 11:40am

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

This combo works better with just paying all but 1 of your life while having out the Soul Warden.

You get a lot of tokens, and you don't lose any life



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