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CardName: Virulent Research Cost: 3BB Type: Enchantment Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Lose 4 life: Virulent Research deals 3 damage to each creature and player. Any player may play this ability. {B}, Discard a card: Gain 3 life. Flavour Text: "Today, I had an outbreak. What would happen if my test subjects suffered a breakthrough of boils?" -from the notes of Margol, Field Researcher Set/Rarity: Mashup: the Gathering Workbench Rare |
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Random generator gave me Volrath's Dungeon and Dakmor Plague. I'm pretty sure that dungeon popped up once before, as well, but it was so long ago, I've forgotten what I did with it, or combined it to. I also, recently saw Soul Echo pop up a second time with Kithkin Greatheart. My first thought was, "No good can come of this". After thinking about how to do another Soul Echo card, after the first one was so well received, I gave it the ban hammer. I don't do that often (mostly, for cards that talk about hosing a color, because I've seen too many of them, and they are rarely fun to play with).
Love the flavour text. Not so sure baout the card. It should lead to interesting play decisions, but is much more likely to lead to either "Ok, board is permanently cleared" or "And now Alex has figured out how to build a black lifegain deck"
It's probably true, unfortunately. I think this card might either be too good, or terrible. I can't figure out which. Is it okay to make cards for Johnny-Griefers? Is a card like this fair at any casting cost? Tough to say. I'm going to toy with the numbers. It now deals damage to players as well... though, I dropped the activation to 4 life, from 5, since paying 7 life for an effect is trying on any card. At least, this way, the game will end soon enough.
This is an awesome and mad card, and I quite like it.
Searching comment body shows us the other Volrath's Dungeon card was Volrath's Whim.
Excellent. They aren't even close to similar. This set has a pretty crazy theme of black going all Punisher on everybody, which is fine by me.