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Spikes Through The Heart

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Ebonblade Reaper

{2}{B}

Creature — Human Cleric

Onslaught

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Whenever this creature attacks, you lose half your life, rounded up. Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Morph {3}{B}{B} (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for {3}. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

1/1

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Spellbinder

{3}

Artifact — Equipment

Darksteel

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Imprint — When this Equipment enters, you may exile an instant card from your hand. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, you may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Equip {4}

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Quietus Spike

{3}

Artifact — Equipment

Shards of Alara

Read rules for Quietus Spike
Equipped creature has deathtouch. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, that player loses half their life, rounded up. Equip {3}

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Date Posted: Tue Nov/22/11 at 5:54 am

Gregorius
Posts: 412
Joined: 01-Aug-10

Pretty self-explanatory—equip the Spellbinder (exiling Ebonblade Reaper.

When the Reaper attacks the opponent, it'll do one damage... then the Reaper's ability will trigger... then the Spike's ability will trigger... then the Spellbinder will cast the instant for free. (In math terms, 19 ÷ 2 = 4 - 4 = <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" bold;"="">0.)

EDIT: Turns out the Spellbinder's not even needed! As long as you're running a mono-black deck, you can just exile two cards in your hand and cast it!

[Edited by Gregorius on 22/Nov/11 at 6:09AM]
Date Posted: Tue Nov/22/11 at 7:23am

ghostfire86
Posts: 496
Joined: 04-Nov-09

Make this a black white deck using

beloved chaplain: 1W 1/1 cleric Protection from creatures

Stoneforge Mystic: 1W 1/2 Kor when enters the battlefield search library for an equipment and put in hand, 1W Tap: put equipment from hand into play.
Date Posted: Tue Nov/22/11 at 7:45am

rav514
Posts: 329
Joined: 02-Dec-10

both half life cards round up. So they would be at 1, not 0.
20-1=19/2=8.5 + rd up=9/2=4.5+ rd up=5-4=1
Date Posted: Tue Nov/22/11 at 8:14am

Gregorius
Posts: 412
Joined: 01-Aug-10

...go back to your remedial math class, rav.

Nineteen (19) divided by two (2) is nine-and-a-half (9½). That rounds up to ten (10). The opponent loses ten life when the Reaper's ability procs, not nine... then five more with the Spike... then you come in for the kill with Soul Spike.

And just so this gets through to you, read the rulings on Quietus Spike circa 6/5/2010:
In a Two-Headed Giant game, if a creature equipped with Quietus Spike would assign combat damage to the defending team, its damage is assigned to only one of the defending players. After combat damage is dealt, Quietus Spike looks at that player's life total (which is the same as the team's life total) when determining how much life the team will lose, which basically means the team's life total is halved. Here's an example of the math: The team has 19 life, so the player has 19 life. Quietus Spike causes the team to lose 10 life (19 divided by 2, rounded up). The team's life total becomes 9 (19 minus 10).
WotC agrees with me here, buddy.


[Edited by Gregorius on 22/Nov/11 at 8:17AM]
Date Posted: Tue Nov/22/11 at 12:33pm

rav514
Posts: 329
Joined: 02-Dec-10

opps, my bad.


Pss. this is what i'm talking about. Stop being an ass. I was wrong . no big deal. IT happens.


It's the life loss that's round up, not the life total. That was all you had to say. My bad, I read the card(s) wrong. Note, also, i didnt slam your combo, nor was i rude, i just questions the math.

SO GROW UP AND STOP BEING A JACK@$$. i was wrong my bad.



[Edited by rav514 on 22/Nov/11 at 12:34PM]

[Edited by rav514 on 22/Nov/11 at 12:38PM]
Date Posted: Tue Nov/22/11 at 2:30pm

Turbine
Posts: 10194
Joined: 26-Oct-09

Hey, hey. It's all good. No need to get angry.




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