Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.
The card represents the ancestral homeland of Dominaria's shapeshifters, first seen on Vesuvan Shapeshifter. Later, the land was given its own plane card in Planechase: Isle of Vesuva
Posted By:
Missile_Penguin
(12/2/2012 1:23:17 PM)
Vesuva pretty much can gives you:
- Legendary land destruction
- 64 mana with 7 other "Cloudpost"s
- Another Urza's Tower
- More Strip Mine
- "Ha ha ha, now I have two of the same non-basic land in EDH! I am the greatest!"
- NOT Domain 6
- Another Island (Who wouldn't want that?)
- An untapped nothing (Just what everyone needed!)
- Avoids Cornered Market
- 5 Mishra's Factorys
- And the most important task of all:
Italization.
Posted By:
001010011100101110
(8/6/2010 9:06:01 PM)
64 colorless mana when combined with Cloudpost, that puts Urzatron to shame.
Posted By:
MTGFreak
(2/7/2010 2:09:32 AM)
Also: can be good for hosing legendary lands. :D
Posted By:
Gwafa_Hazid
(12/15/2009 11:37:06 AM)
i guess the italicized text is just another power of vesuva
Posted By:
brunsbr103
(2/21/2010 11:29:29 AM)
One good reason not to copy a land is if you have something like Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth in play and you need a land to come into play untapped.
Posted By:
Kelrath
(6/8/2010 1:04:11 PM)
It'll work with Lotus Vale because it doesn't become a copy after it's already hit play. By the time it's a Lotus Vale, EtB triggers have already gone off, so you won't have to sacrifice the lands.
Posted By:
Dragon_Nut
(11/24/2011 10:47:58 PM)
How in the blue hell did those people think it would give domain 6 ? Sheesh. People just make up rules as they go.
Posted By:
Belz_
(5/18/2010 3:35:30 PM)
Why the hell is everything italicized? Neat card.
Posted By:
ArtBell
(2/15/2010 8:36:59 PM)
It's already a good card, yet it would be quite awesome if it came into play untapped...maybe too useful then, though.
I guess one of the best lands that combines with this card is Cloudpost. It enters tapped anyways and given that there's at least already one cloudpost outside you'll be effectively able to run 8 Cloudposts.
And it should not be forgotten that you can target an opponent's land as well, this might also be handy from time to time.
Thaviel, you're wrong by the way. When you copy something, this includes the cip / "enters the battlefield" trigger. That is, if you copy a lair (e.g. Crosis's Catacombs) or one of the common Ravnica duals (e.g. Boros Garrison), you'll have to return another land as usual.
Concerning corner cases: there's an example stated in the ruling section of this card:
10/15/2006: Cornered Market won’t prevent Vesuva from being played (unless there’s a Vesuva in pla... (see all)
Posted By:
Mode
(8/6/2009 5:51:30 PM)