Editing Elesh Norn (section)

==In Game==
[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214352 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite] is a fuckawesome Legendary 7-mana creature that continuously gives your creatures +2/+2 (except her) and your opponent's creatures -2/-2. A resolved Elesh Norn is just completely backbreaking against any creature based strategy; she immediately kills any opposing creatures with 2 or less toughness (through stuff like Protection from White and Indestructible), neuters the rest, and turns any other creatures you may have into game ending threats. Seriously best of luck pushing through damage into an Elesh Norn when your 15 Saproling tokens are wiped, your 5/5s ''are now trading into 1/1s mana dorks'', and Elesh Norn's 4/7 ass is blocking anything that's not an Eldrazi Titan (after a -2/-2). Elesh Norn singlehandedly ends games if the opponent doesn't have a clean answer, and even if she's immediately [[/d/|plowed]] or pathed she's still murdered all the X/2s and X/1s around for their trouble.

In competitive play, Norn is used in Reanimator lists as the anti-aggro target of choice. Other reanimator targets are great against a specific problem permanent ([http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=373689 Ashen Rider]) or locking out future spells (blowing up lands or [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=401636 Iona]-esque effects), but can struggle against established boards with a lot of creature threats. Whereas Norn smacks down "a lot of creature threats" ''really'' well, regardless of how many Spirits or Elves or Humans the opponent mustered beforehand. There are creatures more bullshit than Norn, but they either can't be reanimated (first set of Eldrazi titans, Blightsteel Colossus, Progenitus) or have their big effect tied to ''casting'' the card instead of cheating it into play (second set of Eldrazi Titans), so she gets the love of the necrophiliacs. Though since she has vigilance, they don't get to tap her fat 4/7 ass.

As an interesting tidbit where fluff and crunch overlap, Norn is fully capable of defeating any of the other praetors, even [[Vorinclex]] despite his higher stats since her debuff on enemy creatures means she can survive the damage he deals out while dealing enough to kill him