RNA: Final Payment, Instant WB As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 5 life or sacrifice a creature or enchantment. Destroy target creature.

HolyProxyBatman

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#1 Posted Jan 11, 2019

This just seems bad.

hyalopterouslemur

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#3 Posted Jan 11, 2019

Not necessarily. If the enchantment is Demonic Pact or that new Rakdos version of it that I still swear will never see play, I would gladly sacrifice that. I would also sacrifice 1/1 tokens, or creatures with death triggers. And life payment is always an option, possibly in a budget EDH deck.

The modal cost is what makes it playable. Keep in mind, it's still bad relative to Swords to Plowshares, but in Standard? Yeah. In limited? Definitely.

yugm3

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#2 Posted Jan 11, 2019

enables afterlife neat
that and some games no ones gonna care about the 5 life

PoodlestarGenerica

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#4 Posted Jan 11, 2019

This is a vampires card. It works with that new enchantment, and I wouldn't be surprised if it became a good deck soon. Though, it seems terrible vs Teferi decks, so who knows.