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I like gigadrowse better, altho this card is muuuch more versatile.
4/5, strong but not overpowered. Compare to the 5/5 exhaustion for tapping or murkfiend liege for mass untap in blue.
Posted By:
patronofthesound
(2/16/2013 6:56:09 PM)
So much potential, so little time. Really wish the Eldrazi had been 5 color rather than just Jund colored, this would have made for a lot of fun times.
Posted By:
DoragonShinzui
(4/26/2012 9:02:33 AM)
This is surely one of the most versatile cards in Rise of the Eldrazi. It can:
- lock your opponent by tapping his or her lands
- tap opponent's creatures paving the way to your massive alpha attack
- untap you creatures after a massive attack
- untap your lands for more mana, if you can produce several mana with a single permanent (Gaea's Cradle, Tolarian Academy, Rofellos, Elvish Archdruid, ...)
- make infinite combos with Sigil Tracer or Echo Mage, as someone already posted; these combos can create powerful effects with cards like Fallowsage, Corrupted Roots, Betrayal, Goblin Medic, Hollowsage, Insolence, Judge of Currents, Relic Putrescence and many others.
I don't ... (see all)
Posted By:
Paolino
(1/16/2012 1:20:04 AM)
"At one point in Rise of the Eldrazi design, there were quite a bit more colorless instants and sorceries in the set."
At one point in Rise of the Eldrazi design, there were quite a lot of awesome cards...
"...it was decreed by the creative team pretty quickly that they wanted Eldrazi defined first and foremost by their hugeness and second by being colorless..."
...which apparently got nixed by the creative team. Y'all should have been furious. It's not like the Eldrazi spawnish critters cost 
or more. Creative dropped the ball on this one.
Jason Felix's art for this is fantastic. The electric-blue-tinged-purple vibe is great. Your card as first drafted, mechanically, was much cooler. :)
Posted By:
Salient
(8/29/2011 9:53:03 AM)
Reminds me of Candelabra of Tawnos. I wish we had some kind of High Tide effect in standard so this could have been abused :(
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(6/17/2011 10:00:23 PM)
So many ways to break it...
To begin with, this is really good in Vintage, where you can use it with your Tolarian Academy, Urza lands, and the like.
Posted By:
bay_falconer
(6/17/2011 1:20:50 PM)
I use this in my mono-blue proliferate deck which also runs everflowing chalices.
It's a nice card for when I have thirty mana and I don't know what to do with it. Sometimes, I end up just tapping everyone else's lands and monsters before my turn and taking the opportunity to kill everyone without having to worry about things like safe passage or fog. Usually though, I just use it to untap my chalices and contagion engines/clasps and my voltaic keys and just proliferate a few more times so my board position becomes even stronger and more ridiculous.
Posted By:
Asmodi0000
(2/22/2011 6:02:51 PM)
Goes infinite untaps with echo mage or sigil tracer. Nothing to scoff at.
Posted By:
Pwnsaw
(2/12/2011 6:49:08 PM)
Aaron's Random Card Comment of the Day #26, 11/1/10
At one point in Rise of the Eldrazi design, there were quite a bit more colorless instants and sorceries in the set. I submitted the following common card, which was in the file for at least one playtest:
Instant
Untap up to X target creatures.
The idea of it was that it was a limited trick that any color could have access to. I never got to try playing with it, as it was decreed by the creative team pretty quickly that they wanted Eldrazi defined first and foremost by their hugeness and second by being colorless, so all colorless Eldrazi cards should cost at least 7 mana. Thankful for the direction, we kicked all the cheap colorless spells out.
The card that would become Reality Spasm entered the file a short while later, as a rare and with a mana cost of 
; the team was looking for interesting finishers to sink a bunch of Eldrazi Spawn into, and it didn’t hurt that the card was clean and elegant an... (see all)
Posted By:
Aaron_Forsythe
(11/1/2010 11:45:33 PM)
Permanents guys. Permanents. That means lands.
Posted By:
Stray_Dog
(8/6/2010 12:44:45 PM)