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CardName: Phyrexian Obligator Cost: {pb}{pb}{pb}{pb} Type: Artifact Creature - Horror Pow/Tgh: 5/5 Rules Text: Intimidate Phyrexian Obligator enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it for each 2 life spent to cast it. When Phyrexian Obligator dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life for each counter on it. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Cards With No Home Rare

Phyrexian Obligator
{pb}{pb}{pb}{pb}
 
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Artifact Creature – Horror
Intimidate
Phyrexian Obligator enters the battlefield with a -1/-1 counter on it for each 2 life spent to cast it.
When Phyrexian Obligator dies, you draw a card and you lose 1 life for each counter on it.
5/5
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Updated on 12 Dec 2014 by Link

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2014-12-12 02:16:50: Link created and commented on the card Phyrexian Obligator
on 12 Dec 2014 by Link:

I can't decide whether this is OP or craptastic.

on 12 Dec 2014 by Alex:

Hmm. So ignoring Norn's Devoted for a moment:

  • Spending just 8 life, it's a 1/1 intimidate with a death trigger of a double Sign in Blood (costing 12 life in total)
  • Spending {b} and 6 life (on turn 1) it's a 2/2 intimidate with a death trigger of Ambition's Cost (costing 9 life in total)
  • Spending {b}{b} and 4 life (on turn 2), it's a 3/3 intimidate with a death trigger of one Sign in Blood (6 life in total)
  • Spending {b}{b}{b} and 2 life (on turn 3, if you're lucky), it's a 4/4 intimidate with a death trigger of Phyrexian Rager
  • Spending {b}{b}{b}{b} on turn 4, it's just a 5/5 intimidate.

The -1/-1 counters help avoid it being too aggressive early on. For typical aggro you probably want to cast it as a two-drop 3/3 intimidate; or I could see some aggro decks that would cast it as a one-drop 2/2.

It's a better chump blocker the more life you invest into it early on, but that comes with an increased risk of losing that investment if it gets bounced or exiled.

Pretty interesting. Clearly strong, but I don't think it's worryingly overpowered on its own.

­Norn's Devoted breaks most other pure-Phyrexian-mana creatures, but I think that's a problem with Norn's Devoted, not with this card.

on 12 Dec 2014 by jmgariepy:

As a separate side note, spending BBBB for 'just a 5/5 intimidate' is pretty good. It's incredibly good, however, if you happen to block a five power creature with infect. It's like you smashed in a quick Promise of Power in the trade.

I'm not sure how often you can reliably expect to get enough -1/-1 counters on a creature like this for it to matter. But New Phyrexia and Eventide would sure like to give it a try. At the very least, this makes a good creature to have around when you're tossing out the Incremental Blights.

on 12 Dec 2014 by SadisticMystic:

And for just 17 life, if you hardcast Phyrarion at full cost and then go all Phyrexian for this, I guess it's like a bad Necrologia?

on 12 Dec 2014 by Alex:

Hm, how come they haven't reprinted Necrologia in any of the EDH precons?

on 12 Dec 2014 by Link:

This also interacts with +1/+! counters, by the way, with the current wording.

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