"Tempt with Immortality: The Reanimators offer"

"Tempt with Immortality: The Reanimators offer"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.

EDH is a game of multiple decisions. Successive decisions that could either make you win or lose.It was not so surprising then that Tempting Offer became a mechanic for cards in the 2nd set of Commander 2013. The interaction that this creates is potential chaos.Beautiful Beautiful Chaos. 

Take for example the card Tempt with Immortality. For 5 mana you could reanimate a creature from your graveyard and in turn your opponents are faced with a decision either to reanimate one of their best creatures as well. The catch though is that for each of your opponents who become tempted with this necromantic offer you get to put one more creature on your side of the board. It sounds like Sepulchral Primordial and it is the spell equivalent of this excellent card and speaking of Sepulchral Primordial it is actually one of the best targets for this particular spell.

"Pick me...Pick me!"

Timing is everything of course. And you need to look for a few things before investing your 5 mana on this spell:

- Creatures on all of your opponents graveyards. 3 or more preferably. Casting this spell is probably better after a Mass Removal spell has just been resolved.

- Open mana available to your opponents. A measly counter can ruin your fun.

- If the creatures on the opponents side of the board is much weaker than the monsters you could reanimate. Otherwise you could just hold off until there are worthy targets.

- Some control mages would actually let this spell resolve if they believe that they could have some sort of advantage over you so check that out before casting it as well.

Tempt with Immortality is a really great card for multi-player games because of all the decision making involved. Making games more interactive instead of just waiting for something to give or an extended war of attrition.This card will really shake things up come November.