Spinal Parasite Artifact Card in Magic the Gathering

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Mike Lopez with Expert Village, and today we'll be discussing artifacts from Magic the Gathering. And now I'm going to go over Spinal Parasite. Spinal Parasite, it's one of those great cards that you will see. It is an artifact creature insect, it isn't uncommon, as you see here. Once again this was based when artifact creatures were very, very prevalent. And Spinal Parasite costs you 5 to put in play. Well, he is at a -1, -1. What this means is that, there is something going on. Well if you pause a second, you will see that this card has sunburst on it, which means that this creature comes into play with a 1, 1 counter on it, for each color type of mana used to pay its cause. So once again, if you use all five types of manas, that be white, blue, green, black and red to play this card, it will come in with five 1, 1 counters on it, which 1 will be negated, and it will be a 4/4. And it also has the ability that you remove two 1, 1 counters from Spinal Parasite, and you get to remove a counter from another target permanent. So this card is very powerful if you are using a multicolor deck that has all the colors on it, such as an elemental deck."