MTG Salvation

More removal on a body...as if Death Doge was not enough for one day.

I don't run Palace Jailer, but he seems to be better than this. You won't always have a big body to exile and attack with, at least Jailer can give you card advantage.

Pass.

Compare the upside on this to that of Hostage Taker, and you start to see the problem. Higher risk, lower reward.

It’s also kind of an ugly tribal design. Even in a constructed vampires deck you want this to target itself at least 9/10 times, so why even pretend?

Also, what is up with higher CMC 1/1 Vampires in this set? LAME.

I don't think it's that bad, but jailer is actually great and I don't see myself cutting any other 4. If this was sometime before 2010, I'd prob be playing this.

Yeah... I've been impressed with the palace jailer since testing it, but that's backed on the power of the monarch. Don't want another effect like this at 4 CMC.
This is a solid card though. Exiling a big monster and creating a huge attacking threat is certainly a powerful effect.

Not testing, but not mad at it

Palace Jailer is much better, and I don't even run that.

This would be cool at 1WW, but not close to cracking white fours.

I might add it. I don't run the monarch because the cards don't have reminder text (I'm asking my drafters to know enough about the game already), and I'm happy to see a Fiend Hunter with a little more going on, even it it's weaker than other cards. The vampire thing is a little silly, but it might buff another vampire someday, and I don't mind having minor synergistic nodes.

right now i have selfless squire in my flex spot and i think i might play this over it as much as i like surprise crackbacks.

I first read the card as during your combat step target vampire gets +x/+x not a trigger when the bishop himself attacks... i would have liked the idea of pumping my vampire nighthawk or even kalitas, traitor of ghet for some nice lifelink.