*** Prey’s Vengeance – One of the First I Ever Owned, and Possibly Capable as a Winner Using Poison

Prey’s Vengeance predates the idea of dealing damage via poison counters, and at the time it came out is was not a very useful card.  Likewise, all the reviews of cards I write are dated, of course.  That is all MTG cards are usually to a certain extent, as MTG can seemingly resurrect any card it wants and make it an awesome card, especially as later sets come out, which of course is subject to the idea that Magic the Gathering will always continue to put out newer cards.  Paying 1 mana to deal 4 damage is a pretty good deal.  If you are using poison, then it is a fairly awesome deal.  The problem with this card is that it deal the damage over 2 turns, and if you are using poison, you should be thinking of winning during turn 3, where Prey’s Vengeance may be consider of falling short of that, as it will most likely require at least 4 turns to win if you are playing poison.
Using the formula I discussed in my review of Contagious Nim, if you are playing poison then it is possible to consider that Prey’s Vengeance is a card where it is as giving +4/+4 for 1 mana over the course of 2 turns, a total of +8/+8.  That’s really good, but if you are not playing poison, then currently this is not a great card.  It would have been awesome if it were a common, and thus could be played in the Pauper format.  However, it is an uncommon, and to my knowledge MTG has yet to create a format that focuses on the use of uncommon cards.  However, this card is likely to become more useful if a format evolved to focus around playing uncommon cards, but in my opinion there is already enough formats though I might consider making a deck for another type of formats than the ones that currently exists.