Pharika, God of Affliction
Oracle Text
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black and green is less than seven, Pharika isn't a creature.
: Exile target creature card from a graveyard. Its owner creates a 1/1 black and green Snake enchantment creature token with deathtouch.
Card Rulings
4/26/2014 The type-changing ability that can make the God not be a creature functions only on the battlefield. It’s always a creature card in other zones, regardless of your devotion to its color.
4/26/2014 If a God enters the battlefield, your devotion to its color (including the mana symbols in the mana cost of the God itself) will determine if a creature entered the battlefield or not, for abilities that trigger whenever a creature enters the battlefield.
4/26/2014 If a God stops being a creature, it loses the type creature and all creature subtypes. It continues to be a legendary enchantment.
4/26/2014 The abilities of Gods function as long as they’re on the battlefield, regardless of whether they’re creatures.
4/26/2014 If a God is attacking or blocking and it stops being a creature, it will be removed from combat.
4/26/2014 If a God is dealt damage, then stops being a creature, then becomes a creature again later in the same turn, the damage will still be marked on it. This is also true for any effects that were affecting the God when it was originally a creature. (Note that in most cases, the damage marked on the God won’t matter because it has indestructible.)
4/26/2014 Your devotion to two colors is equal to the number of mana symbols that are the first color, the second color, or both colors among the mana costs of permanents you control. Specifically, a hybrid mana symbol counts only once toward your devotion to its two colors. For example, if the only nonland permanents you control are Pharika, God of Affliction and Golgari Guildmage (whose mana cost is ), your devotion to black and green is four.
4/26/2014 Numeric mana symbols (, , and so on) in mana costs of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color.
4/26/2014 Mana symbols in the text boxes of permanents you control don’t count toward your devotion to any color.
4/26/2014 Hybrid mana symbols, monocolored hybrid mana symbols, and Phyrexian mana symbols do count toward your devotion to their color(s).
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Posted Apr 14, 2014"Oh, you're gonna reanimate that {insert broken card here}? Nah, I think you can have a 1/1 snake w/deathtouch instead." and "Supreme Verdict? Ok."Taps BBGG on control players turn, gets two dudes.
I like that she is so aggressively costed. I live in Magical Christmas land, where I will have her and Athreos, God of Passage out. "So will you take 3? Or am I getting back my creature?... You take 3? Sweet.I'll make a 1/1 as well."
Surprisingly in Standard the dredge deck is doing well and I think this card will be the mirror breaker like Erebos, God of the Dead is for the mono B decks.
edit: At least I now have a reason to pick up my GB EDH again and switch Skullbriar, The Walking Grave to Pharika, God of Affliction because her foil will look damn sexy.