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First Boab article dedicated to extended in months. I guess when they give you a preview card that doesn't work well in standard this is what happens. Without storm a turn 1 Bop or llanowar elves is almost always going to be better than this for enabling combos. I guess desperate ritual , and pretty much every ritual printed to date were just too good so now we have the worst ritual in history.

Jun 30, 2010 -- 4:59AM, lathspel wrote:

I'm happy to see another option for Extended and Classic, but this is going nowhere in Limited.

Jun 29, 2010 -- 9:59PM, Lina_Inverse wrote:

Or i could drop an elf or bird turn 1......

Acceleration that your opponent can counter with Lightning Bolt are not that great.

Acceleration that your opponent can counter with negate isn´t that great either..

you see, a moot point.

R is already running our of steam too fast in standard, with Firewalker, 4 toughness walls and Baneslayers turning the game around everywhere you go.

Unless we get some good 3-4 costed Red BOMBS for constructed, this will see NO PLAY.

Jun 30, 2010 -- 5:12AM, MadMageQc wrote:

Personaly, I find it quite natural that this card got printed. It really feels like the true fixed Dark Ritual , in the correct place in the color wheel and with the correct mana cost, without the rarely useful, unprintable-in-core-sets Arcane mechanic of Desperate Ritual. It's not very impressive, but I'm confident that it will find a place.

It kinda is a shame that Time Spiral block, which on its lonesome gives Pyretic Ritual so much usefulness, rotates so fast, but oh well. After that, the only remaining true combo deck I can think of will be Scapeshift , which is good and on the other hand not too hard to fight (especially for the Faerie Boogeyman), but some more variety in combo would have been nice. We'll see what comes next.

It would not have overpowered this card to give it scry 1 since scry is in the current set. The fact that you could splice desperate ritual onto another one meant that you really didn't need any other arcane spells in the deck to give it that extra usefulness. In my version of the lava spike / izzet guildmage / desperate ritual deck I played a couple of blaze because there were many games where I just couldn't stick a creature and I could just cast the lava spike 's I drew and then when I hit 6 mana with 2-3 desperate ritual in hand I could usually blaze for the win.

If you're looking for a "fixed" dark ritual look no further than coldsnap's rite of flame . They are both 1 cmc. rite of flame was never overpowered. All in red is the deck that best utilized both rite of flame and desperate ritual and that deck was not overpowered. My conclusion is that pyretic ritual is too underpowered to be a "fixed" anything. This is a card that needs fixing.