Fappy said:
Pretty much what everyone else has said. EA is the Phage of the industry.
Wouldn't a better example have been Emerakul?
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID41950/images/roe_emrakul.png
I mean if you're going by the books, Phage wasn't that bad. She simply beat out the competition that was trying to beat her out first. Victim of circumstance really.
If you're going by the card, it's overly useless these days.
7 mana, 4 of which is colored. 4/4, no first strike so most creatures will smack her down pretty easily. No easy way to put her out, you HAVE to pay that 7 unless you have something to reduce the cost. If you try to get her in any other way you lose, literally. To my knowledge there is only one other card that say, "You lose the game", and that's used against an opponent.
No haste. And 2 mana is the most needed to kill her.
Emrakul however cannot be stopped from coming into play unless you are holding Time Stop, which literally says end the turn, remove this and all spells on the stack from the game. It's protected by just about anything you can throw at it and Wizards had to make a loophole in their poor wording on a card a rule just to hurt it.
It's 15 cost is nullified by the fact that it's all colorless, and was printed in a set that was rampant with mana explosion. I've seen him hit on turn 3.
Phage is nothing, at worst, Capcom.
Emrakul is the product of poor planning, shortsighted business practice, power hunger, and bad ideas. It's too big for itself, is far too unregulated, it does nothing but attempt to squash the competition until it is illegally the only player left in the game and nobody wants it around. JUST like EA.
