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12 months ago ::
Jul 07, 2012 - 12:41PM
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You can use Necropotence in EDH, though Griselbrand can work too.
Griselbrand got banned recently. That's why I said that.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 07, 2012 - 4:12PM
#72
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Fine! Yes, Griselbrand isn't EDH legal but it is Standard legal and is legal in every other format thus far. Necropotence covers the inability of Griselbrand to be in EDH. Which leads to the point that a 10 mana enchantment that provides an effect available for less isn't needed. True, once M13 comes in then Griselbrand has three months, but a 10 cost enchantment is highly unlikely to work in Standard without something to cheat it into play.
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12 months ago ::
Jul 07, 2012 - 10:18PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 18, 2004
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Fine! Yes, Griselbrand isn't EDH legal but it is Standard legal and is legal in every other format thus far. Necropotence covers the inability of Griselbrand to be in EDH. Which leads to the point that a 10 mana enchantment that provides an effect available for less isn't needed. True, once M13 comes in then Griselbrand has three months, but a 10 cost enchantment is highly unlikely to work in Standard without something to cheat it into play.
At this point, you should know that virtually all "pay life, draw card" enchantments have or were at one point banned in EDH. Necropotence  was taken off the banned list because, as it turned out, it wasn't as BAD as some of the others ... which traded off their higher cost for removing the massive drawbacks Necro had. In fact, Necro's drawbacks (almost total loss of your graveyard, and the massive life bleed it "lets" you get away with) are the reason it is "balanced" in EDH. It's not always the best target for removal on a board (a Blue player dropping a Seedborn Muse  ? yeah, that's worse than Necro). Cost at this point is irrelevant in EDH. When it comes to players with accellerated mana, the ability to easy get to 5-6 on the 3rd turn -- or 10 mana on the fourth-fifth -- especially using Sol Ring  , Grim Monolith  , Mana Crypt  and Mana Vault  ("staples"), the only problem is ensuring you get the COLORED mana. Necro's drawback in this regard is that you had to use a Ritual to drop it easily that early, and it was hard to cheat into play. It is how any enchantment that pretends it can do Yawgmoth's Bargain  better will get the hammer, and why the amount of colorless cost is only an afterthought or an "elegance" of the card's imagery, when it comes to EDH.
Griselbrand  is a creature, which means he's far EASIER to tutor up, Reanimate  , drop into hand for nothing, etc., than any other Necro-like effect. This is how he got the banhammer.
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