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Dark Depths
Card Name:
Dark Depths
Types:
Legendary Snow Land
Card Text:
Dark Depths enters the battlefield with ten ice counters on it.
: Remove an ice counter from Dark Depths.
When Dark Depths has no ice counters on it, sacrifice it. If you do, put a legendary 20/20 black Avatar creature token with flying and "This creature is indestructible" named Marit Lage onto the battlefield.
Expansion:
Coldsnap Rarity: Rare Card #: 145
Sure a 20/20 black avatar creature with flying named Marit Lage sounds awesome. It sounds like a game winner, but unless you're playing Ramp mixed with crystal meth there doesn't seem much chance that it will see much actual game owing to the sheer cost of removing those counters.
But wait! There's More!
Enter Vampire Hexmage
Card Name:
Vampire Hexmage
Mana Cost:
Converted Mana Cost:2
Types:
Creature — Vampire Shaman
Card Text:
First strike
Sacrifice Vampire Hexmage: Remove all counters from target permanent.
Flavor Text:
When the blood hunt lost its thrill, she looked for less tangible means of domination.
P/T:
2 / 1
Expansion:
Rarity: Uncommon Card #: 114
Suddenly you play Dark Depths as your land, play the 2 drop Hexmage, sac it and voila, the Marit Lage avatar is out in one turn. That's a Holy Shit moment if I ever saw one.
It's quite probable that many of you already know this and that as per usual I'm just out of the loop, but for those, who like me, were clueless, here's your own Holy Shit moment courtesy of The Mana Pool.
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