Against my mates small white creatures that keep givin him life,well goodbye and those pesky flying creatures you just cant seem to block,byebye

  -- By phil from england on May 07, 2004

Looking to build a burn deck? Begin here. This card is the key to a non-creature red deck. Put 4 of these with 4 Aether Stings in there and you'll take over instantly. With only 2 in play, noone can cast a creature with toughness less than 5 without it being killed instantly. Only minor drawback is mana cost (ain't Sandstone Needle grand?).

  -- By Telojan from Toledo on April 23, 2003

A cheap but extermly useful enchantment destroy those 1/1 tokens or 1/1 tap to do 1 damge and since many decks I have seen have a vast number of 1/1 or 2/2 creatures to attack fast and hard when joind together.

  -- By Bponzer from oshkosh,WI USA on August 06, 2002

This card is very handy in decks without creatures, when your enemy plays with an Squirrel deck, he or she will lose all of her/his lovely squirrels that are most of the time 1/1 creatures, it is also very handy against White Weeny decks wich play with about 8 1/1 creatures one mana and 12 2/2 creatures two mana, and still this card is not very good, because it takes four or five turns before you can play Aheter Flash, then that player will have 6 creatures in play. And... this card is wortless against decks with large creatures.

  -- By W-J from DC Washington VS on February 09, 2002