Westvale Abbey
Oracle Text
: Add .
, , Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 white and black Human Cleric creature token.
, , Sacrifice five creatures: Transform Westvale Abbey, then untap it.
- Rarity:Rare
- Type:Land
- Set:Shadows Over Innistrad
- Reverse Card:Ormendahl, Profane Prince
- Banned in
- Legal in UKN MDN CMD LGC VIN CAS CLA
- Artist:Min Yum
This card doesn't do its thing until turn 5, or maybe turn 4 if you're running ramp. Having five creatures on turn 5 is HARD. You'd either have to be running weenies or get a perfect curve of creatures, and even then, you'd have to choose not the attack or block for fear of losing one. Unless the opponent is braindead, you're gonna be attacked for four turns straight. Even the smallest amount of interference from your opponent means you'll have to wait more turns to get your demon. Five creatures isn't easy to come by, and at the end of the day, any bounce spell gets rid of the guy and forces you to replay him as a land. This card is in no way broken or overpowered.
On the flipside I think that this could be an interesting consideration for B/W tokens in modern.
It does produce waste mana, which help casting Spatial Contortion / Warping Wail / Reality Smasher / THought-Knot Seer and with the amount of thopter it can produce, it just add a win con that can suprise your opponent once in a while without impacting your deck strategy.
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