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Because that's a really silly "fake" drawback. It's something you would put on a creature thinking it's a drawback, but then you realize that it would just go in a deck with no lifegain. Suddenly, it's not a drawback at all.
how about the reverse? when you gain life, you lose 1 life.
Also, see Patron of the Kitsune and Righteous Cause, which are vaguely comparable.
Of course, this also doubles as an Urza's Armor with a body attached that's slightly better in some situations, yet worse in others.
I agree.
Looks to me like it's a
cheaper than it should be, I fear.
Actually it doesn't win with Carrion Howler due to the -1 toughness. There isn't much that I can see that this does break with; Wall of Blood still needs a Fling (or Rolling Stones) effect... Yawgmoth's Bargain was plenty broken already... Spatial Binding and Mischievous Poltergeist get better but aren't exactly snapped in two. Same with Unfulfilled Desires and Vile Consumption.
Maybe I did and I forgot about it. I haven't tried to make a control deck for a while... It's too miserable to try in Standard right now.
Huh? But... how could you not? It's Power Sink crossed with Dissipate - as in, it's literally named as a direct mix between them, Sink-ipate. It's Power Sink, but giving up the "remove all their mana" clause to exile instead.
Improved wording.
Upped CMC.
I'm pretty sure this is broken at this CMC.
Nice; all life loss reduced by one. Very VERY nice for 'pay life' effects. Hopefully people can't find a way to repeatedly lose 0 life. (Though this plus, oh, Carrion Howler is pretty much a win condition.)
I never even noticed the exile clause on Syncopate.
I was thinking of Assert Authority. But I guess that has a way of becoming cheap.
Although; gosh. Syncopate actually obsoletes one of my other favourite counterspells.
Dissipate is the bunny. They worded it that way to make it not counter uncounterable things like Scragnoth.
(There's also Mindbreak Trap, which does work that way, but you have to pay a bit more for.)
Nope, it's not. See Dissipate and Mindbreak Trap.
Just "Exile target spell" was freakin expensive, if I remember right. (The wording must be different, gatherer can't find that)
But yeah, this costs more than Counterspell. That's the only bar, you've jumped it, go wild.
I feel like Wizards might cost this more, but it seems fine to me at this CMC.
Hmm. Spelljack except you have to pay the mana cost, making it more like Grinning Totem. Interesting.