Quote Originally Posted by Dice_Box View Post
Thing is, what happens if the only mana you have is a Gemstone? Then you need it to fire off a draw spell, maybe a Coliseum and then you have one shot left with it. If you draw a Coliseum and use it to fire off a draw spell then your just a boned. That's 8 of our 12-14 mana so its not like these are unlikely situations when we are talking about more than half our mana base.
I like Nether shadow more than ashen ghoul, but when you are going DR less the ghoul offers more damage, but it cost mana, so...
also, I allways go for the draw spell rather than the creature, the choice is obvious, but it makes ashen ghoul a dead meat in our gy