My favorite Black card, hands down. Combine this with a fully stacked Bloodchief Ascension for bunches of fun.

  -- By TSJ from Gilroy, CA on September 04, 2010

This is one of the most dangerous mono-black deck spells in existance, I used it in a 4 way against friends with white/blue, green/white and Black/red. Within my 6th turn, Dark ritual+Death Cloud+Megrims(3)= Nuked and a smile. By far a last resort spell, but a powerful one to get out there with the right situation.

  -- By Nicholas Maurer from Orlando, FL USA on June 09, 2010

It's like; either I win, or we both lose. One of my friends played this blue/black deck back in the days, consistring of some sort of counters, card drawing, discarding and some small creatures to go in for the kill. His late game plan B was to cast a humongus Death Cloud, leaving the board shredded and life totalt usually uncomfortably close to 0.

  -- By Jens from Denmark on November 03, 2009

The "pox ball" is a monster, and can make for a seriously dangerous deck for 1 on 1 or chaos, the trick is to offset its recklessly destructive tendencies, artifact mana sources, especially the kind that doubles as a creature i.e. phyrexian totem, guardian idol ect. and straight up fixers like moxes(if youve been playing for a while or have one hell of a bank roll) sol rings, charcoal diamonds, coldsteel hearts ect. and plenty of mass destruction back up, namely the cards that spawned the idea for this abomination, pox and small pox, and some other good chaos bombs like innocent blood, mutilate, damnation, chainers edict, barter in blood, oblivion stone, curse of the cabal, ect. creatures that wont stay dead or help further complicate things for your opponent, myr servitor, nether spirit, undying beast/gravebane zombie, greater harvester, desecration elemental, eater of days, ect. and if ya pack a couple of feldons canes you can hang in there for the long haul as well as recover from overextending. All ya have to do is play out lands and mana fixers till ya have enough to turn on the gas and cripple every body at the table and activate the phyrexian totem for 5 to the dome against the helpless souls, and bust out the occasional consume spirit/Drain life to gain the life advantage and spread even more harm around the table(or to your 1 on 1 adversary) This card is definitely no joke in a mono-black build...Oh yeah, dont forget the dark rituals, they can do amazing things with those X cost spells.

  -- By Dustin Ethridge from Dacula, GA USA on September 09, 2007

This card is great for a last strike, but it is also great if you have more lands than your opponent and have enough life to survive, you kill all thier lands then eat them alive. I dont know if light of sanction would work with this but if you can use it with this card that would be awesome.

  -- By Anonymous from inside my head on January 20, 2007

My favorite card ever printed, period.

  -- By Ian from Plainville, MA on February 12, 2006

I think this card is great for a last strike.

  -- By Anonymous from Falls, Pennsylvania on December 10, 2004

By far one of the toughest black cards we've seen yet. Death Cloud's versatility is going to make it hard to defend against in any Type tournament. When combined with megrim, gravepact, or a well timed living death, this card is sure to be in every sideboard for those die-hard's who can't seem to build a deck without at least SOME black elements. If Death Cloud were an instant it would be restricted by the end of the month. However, seeing as how it is a sorcery, I predict we'll see it on the restricted list by this time next year. Trust me... it's a lot tougher than you think.

  -- By Bubba Keltch from Tonkawa,OK USA on February 11, 2004