Mutilate or Killing Wave
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Posted on April 4, 2013, 5:47 p.m. by Trumbone
I have 2 blood artists on the field, a diregraf ghoul, and a geralf's messenger without the undying counter. My opponent has a Boros reckoner, a Burning tree emissary, and a Gyre sage. I have 8 Swamps on the field and untapped. Mutilate or Killing Wave?
theemptyquiver says... #3
also...this is almost certainly going to get moved to the general forums, or deck help if this is in regard to a specific deck.
April 4, 2013 5:54 p.m.
Well, with Mutilate everything will die no matter what, which means twice as many Blood Artist triggers as there are creatures on the field. They'll also lose two life from the Geralf's Messenger , and you'll be gaining a ton of life also.
With Killing Wave , you can tap for 7 as your X, which means they could possibly save one or two of their creatures, but it's so much life lost that they'll probably just let everything die.
In the end, Mutilate will be less mana intensive.
April 4, 2013 5:55 p.m.
MindAblaze says... #5
It depends on how much life they have left.
If they can afford to pay the 7 life, lose 12 from the Blood Artist bleeds AND have 2 to spare for the messenger trigger, it might be worth it for them to save their Reckoner...but I would hope they have less than 19 life by the time you're at 8 mana lol.
You probably want to Mutilate killing everything and have the Messenger come back to put pressure on.
April 4, 2013 6:04 p.m.
Zen_Toombs says... #6
Killing Wave for 7. If they save a creature, it comes at a heavy cost. Regardless, the field will be wiped, you will gain 14 life, and they will lose 16 life and have a tapped Geralf's Messenger . If you can't win at that point, I'm not sure you deserve to.
April 4, 2013 6:04 p.m.
RussischerZar says... #8
Why not both? Depending on the life situation and cards in hands, you could think about a Killing Wave with X=3-5 to save one or even two of your or blood artists and if they save some of their own creatures or play some more on their turn, cast the Mutilate afterwards.
April 4, 2013 6:16 p.m.
theemptyquiver says... #9
porque no dos? indeed!. evil genius at work. RussischerZar.
theemptyquiver says... #2
Mutilate . you seem to be a creature disadvantage...without knowing each player's life-totals and what the X cost of killing wave would be it's hard to factor that in...
April 4, 2013 5:53 p.m.