Thought it is very weak with just its 1 toughness I can tell you from experience that this card helps you dominate the battle aspect of magic like no other for such low mana cost. I dunno how many times I started a game with a dark ritual and a sorceress queen and locked the board til Im good and ready to start putting down the hurting.

  -- By Jones from Banana Isle on February 10, 2009

In addition to the value that is clearly valuable, this card works very well with Swords to Plowshares

  -- By Lunaticfringe from So Cal, USA on May 22, 2008

a lot of good combos with this card, 2 timmys or a buffed abyssal hunter turn a 10/10 into a 0/2 then into nothing! freakin awesome!

  -- By wufu from philly,pa usa on March 06, 2008

now this baby did make it into my decks from the formative years when i played almost exclusively black and red decks. didn't have the dough(in '97) for the arabian nights version so i had to get it in another set i forget which one. awesome art , too kool for words! yeah baby! anyway, alot of fun, i don't know (like 'royal assassin' also) if you could play it in a competitive deck today. but multiplayer might be fun! but you'd probably still lose....with panache though!

  -- By Anonymous from gainesville, FL USA on February 24, 2005

my freind actually managed to play both bfms at the same time, and at that time i only had 1 queen out, but then i pulled my second, and he was screwed he was driven insane thinking that he had the strongest creatures in the game, and yet i can turn them in to sushi by just tapping my queens great card!

  -- By D from on July 28, 2002

this is one of the best cards in magic. it can turn any one creature into a 0/2. This makes every big creature a joke, even if its 10/10 flying,trmple,first strike,ect. Good combo with duel grounds or crawlspace. this card has serious power, cant belive its so underrated.

  -- By Lethal from Lancaster, PA on May 29, 2002