Barrin\'s reusable creature kill.

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Barrin, Master Wizard

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard

Urza's Saga

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, Sacrifice a permanent: Return target creature to its owner's hand.

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Flying When this creature enters, exchange control of this creature and up to one target creature an opponent controls. If you don't or can't make an exchange, sacrifice this creature. This ability still resolves if its target becomes illegal.

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Date Posted: Sun May/05/13 at 8:45 pm

Boyachi

Posts: 1553
Joined: 02-Nov-11

Another reason to hate monoblue, straight from Urza's Saga!

All you need is 4 mana (3U to be exact).

1)Have Barrin in play
2)Play the Gilded Drake. (1U)
3)Sacrifice the stolen creature to return Gilded Drake to your hand. (2, for a total of 3U/4)

So it is one more cmc than a Murder, takes two cards, and the first part MUST occur whenever you can cast creatures (typically sorcery speed). The upside to this combo is that it creature destruction for blue that is reusable and a very cruel thing to do to your opponent.

Date Posted: Mon May/06/13 at 2:34am

knarf_the_dwarf

Posts: 1370
Joined: 30-Nov-11

Nice find!-)

Date Posted: Mon May/06/13 at 10:39am

Academic

Posts: 1305
Joined: 29-Mar-12

Nice, Boyachi. To be honest, I'm still surprised that more people havn't found exploits for Barrin.