LogFAQs > #881410950

Like basically if you look at all the problematic phyrexian cards it boils down to "you can play this for 0 or 1 mana, usually as an instant"

If every phyrexian card

- Couldn't be phyrexian'd below 3 flat mana cost
- Didn't put more than one phyrexian mana symbol on cards unless they're fairly expensive or very weak at full cost
- If played at full mana cost would be a slightly weak to balanced card

What the ideal phyrexian card looks like is like, Tezzeret's Gambit. Sorcery so you can't abuse the phyrexian symbol as much. Assuming you pay the normal mana cost the card it's playing wouldn't see much play, but useful in a deck that can use the proliferate. Still costs 3 mana if you phyrexian it up.

I can sorta agree with you that phyrexian mana was bad because of how it was implemented, but that's on them for not realizing the implications in real play where life cost is only a thing that matters if you don't have control of the board and making a lot of it undercosted. The mechanic was cool. Stuff like Phyrexian Metamorph, Tezzeret's Gambit, Norn's Annex, Rage Extractor, . Fun cards. It's just the stuff that bottoms out at uber cheap mana costs that is dumb.
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