Infernal Offering!
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Posted on Oct. 27, 2014, 6:18 p.m. by erabel
Link Here.
4B Sorcery (Rare)
Choose an opponent. You and that player each sacrifice a creature. Each player who sacrificed a creature this way draws two cards.
Choose an opponent. Return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield, then that player returns a creature card from his or her graveyard to the battlefield.
Thoughts?
There's also a white card called Benevolent Offering, but we don't get to see that one spoiled until later. Source
October 27, 2014 6:21 p.m.
It's a certainly powerful effect, I'm just curious how often it will come up. To me it just feels like an expensive "Draw 2" in Black. Wait...what's that? I've got my Spike hat on? One sec. [removes Spike hat]
This card is a politician's dream. Choose to get rid of a problem creature and help a "friend" get a dude back that they might need, all while you cycle a bad creature into a good one. Don't forget that 
has access to cards like Grim Haruspex
so you get even more card draw.
BTW, this also goes infinite with the 
Twincast
guy.
October 27, 2014 6:23 p.m.
I like that it will give someone incentive to team up with you the effects are nice but it might as well read "Strike a deal with target opponent"
October 27, 2014 6:30 p.m.
Named_Tawyny says... #6
Does it go infinite? I'd have thought the new mage's ability wouldn't go on the stack until after Infernal offering finished resolving.
Unless you're thinking of some other way to make it go infinite?
October 27, 2014 7:37 p.m.
You cast the Offering. In response, you cast the Mage. The Mage's ETB trigger resolves, and copies the Offering. The copy resolves. You sacrifice the Mage, draw two cards, then return the Mage to the battlefield. The Mage's ETB triggers. Repeat until you have enough cards.
October 27, 2014 7:38 p.m.
Named_Tawyny says... #8
Gotcha. I was assuming the Mage would already be on the battlefield. That makes more sense now, thanks.
October 27, 2014 7:42 p.m.
Named_Tawyny says... #9
http://mythicspoiler.com/c14/cards/benevolentoffering.html The white offering is up!
October 27, 2014 7:51 p.m.
SimicPower says... #10
This is better than the white offering in my opinion. This is a very versatile card. It can be used as a hexproof-proof kill spell by targeting a player with only one creature. It can be used as one sided draw by targeting a player with no creatures. You can also target a player with nothing in the yard or only bad creatures for one sided reanimation. If you have nothing in your yard, you can just return the guy you sacrificed. Finally, you can target a political ally to minimize the downside, or target a player who is about to lose anyway. There are a lot of things this card does. It might not be competitively playable, but it is fun.
erabel says... #2
I like it. It takes some doing to make it so only you get any value out of it (Choose a player with no dudes on board and a player with no dudes in his 'yard), but it's not impossible. The fact that the sacrifice happens before you return a creature to the battlefield means you don't even have to lose a creature for the draw effect.
October 27, 2014 6:20 p.m.