This is probably one of the worst cards in the set. Proliferate gimmicks aren't worth it, and otherwise it's 8 mana for 9 life over 3 turns. There are far more efficient ways to do that. It probably does more as a metalcraft enabler than it does as a defensive card.
That's the problem with dedicated life gain cards like this. If they make them too good, they'll break multiplayer games in half and turn them into drawn-out battles of attrition. Therefore, they become terrible in any other context.
Posted By:
SleetFox
(9/25/2010 10:04:33 AM)
Regardless of the developers' insistence on making poison permanent, it would've been nice to see a little more thought put into this cycle than just shoehorning in yet more lifegain.
Posted By:
Minus_Prime
(3/10/2011 1:08:21 PM)
Why is this set of 5 artifacts so lame? .-.
Posted By:
KyoDarkFire
(9/23/2010 11:44:33 PM)
Even damage prevention would do so much better than yet another crappy lifegain. Seconded, it's worst from all triangles. and other triangles are already not too good.
Posted By:
Gavrilo
(9/28/2010 5:55:27 AM)
I don't understand why people don't like this card. If this was a white card, then you guys might have a point. But the fact is that all artifacts have an increased mana cost because any deck can use it. Right now this card is rated 1 star. I could think of hundreds of cards strictly worse than this.
This card will never see constructed play, but I just know that some Johnny out there will do something awesome with it in their casual deck. I'll give this card a fair rating of 2/5.
Posted By:
dberry02
(3/1/2011 2:31:30 PM)
since when has wotc cared about multiplayer games though? see: serra ascendant or even sun droplet.
Posted By:
Eternal_Blue
(9/26/2010 3:25:47 AM)
During the pre-release, I managed to pull three of these accursed leonin triangles. If wizards had broken the cycle symmetry and made the life-gain tap-cost 
, they would have been reasonable; 
wouldn't have broken them, either. Maybe I can find someone foolish enough to take all three for an Infiltration Lens...
Posted By:
Necrosage_Disel
(9/26/2010 7:47:46 PM)
crappy life gain is crappy.. worst trigon
Posted By:
stratoscythe
(9/30/2010 9:57:50 PM)
the trigons almost all sucked... not sure any of them will be good enough to see constructed play.
Posted By:
catowner
(10/8/2010 3:18:24 PM)
@Minus_Prime
Ah, but you forget that MaRo was firmly against the ability to remove poison counters from players. I believe he mentioned it in an article.
Posted By:
TDL
(10/28/2010 9:52:10 AM)