One damage, to each player? Really? Wow. That's bad. I mean, the card is good because it's Annihilating Fire, but the player-damage mode is awful. I'd suggest against player-damage as a mode on a charm where one mode is already creature-damage, because that makes the card just feel like Searing Spear. If you can't think of any other red abilities, how about a two-card Act on Impulse?
Well, the other two modes are only worth 1 mana even on a charm (Funeral Charm, Misery Charm). Mass gaining of deathtouch has only ever been available at rare (and always paired with lifelink: Ready // Willing, Vault of the Archangel), but I think it ought to be okay at 3 mana at uncommon. It doesn't destroy all the creatures you most care about - ones you can't block either due to them having evasion or due to them vastly outnumbering you.
Ooh, I like that idea.
One damage, to each player? Really? Wow. That's bad. I mean, the card is good because it's Annihilating Fire, but the player-damage mode is awful. I'd suggest against player-damage as a mode on a charm where one mode is already creature-damage, because that makes the card just feel like Searing Spear. If you can't think of any other red abilities, how about a two-card Act on Impulse?
Well, the other two modes are only worth 1 mana even on a charm (Funeral Charm, Misery Charm). Mass gaining of deathtouch has only ever been available at rare (and always paired with lifelink: Ready // Willing, Vault of the Archangel), but I think it ought to be okay at 3 mana at uncommon. It doesn't destroy all the creatures you most care about - ones you can't block either due to them having evasion or due to them vastly outnumbering you.
Whoa. An innocuous looking charm, with mode 3 being "Destroy all creatures, except maybe some of my tougher ones" at instant speed? Ouchie!
Why tapped? This doesn't seem worth playing even if it came in untapped.
This member of the cycle has a much more conditional ETB trigger than any off the others. Does that bother you?
It's somewhat jarring to me that the ETB trigger and the "revive" trigger on this and Herald of Savagery aren't related like they are on Herald of Epiphany and Herald of Sunlight.