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Posted on Oct. 12, 2013, 3:10 a.m. by redpiano
Why is this card legal in standard? Or at all? Or in existence?
vampirelazarus says... #3
I like it in EDH, but outside that... Its hit or miss.
October 12, 2013 3:50 a.m.
vampirelazarus says... #4
Oh, and its legal in standard because it was printed in m14, one of the sets currently legal for standard play.
:P
October 12, 2013 3:51 a.m.
pookypuppy6 says... #5
Traumatize is lots of fun in The Mimeoplasm commander or in other places in that format, but elsewhere it's more a kind of less-than-first-class milling tool and not much else. Again, like most rares of it's worth, it has a niche to fill, and isn't in any way all-out busted.
October 12, 2013 6 a.m.
You got to remember that the longer a game goes on the less this card actually does. As an expensive card to cast that just means it becomes less and less cost effective with every turn that goes by. In a dedicated mill deck (the kind of deck this card should be played in) you should have milled quite a few cards already by the time you can actually play this card making it even less effective, add that to the fact that it falls into the same slot as Jace, Memory Adept a card you most definitely want to play over Traumatize and it easily becomes a card you don't need to mill your opponent out.
Epochalyptik says... #2
Traumatize isn't even good. As a mill effect, it's kind of clunky and slow. Its power is reduced as the game continues. The cost is also high, sitting at 3UU.
October 12, 2013 3:25 a.m.