This card's not bad, but I think it's eclipsed by Prismatic Omen. Granted, Prismatic Omen leaves you open to any kind of basic landwalk, but given the general lack of landwalk around, it's worth the risk. The Omen also has excellent synergy with Domain, not only giving your basics every type but your non-basics as well. Tapping a Terramorphic Expanse for mana, and using that mana to cast a fully powered Domain spell when you only have 2 lands out is an incredibly rewarding feeling.
Posted By:
Morgrath
(12/26/2009 7:55:38 PM)
An excellent addition to a sunburst deck. Can't seem to draw the one color you need? As long as that color wasn't green, you're good to go.
Posted By:
Draugnor
(9/9/2009 12:34:54 PM)
Good, but not great. You could spend the same cost and get a plains, mountain, island, and swamp into your hand and youre set for land for the next 4 turns. If you're stuck at 4 lands in a deck with 5 colour creatures, this is slap in the face.
Or you could just use Kielidostones (sp?). Draw a card now, get all colours later. Hell with a seething song on the third turn you could be playing a Fusion elemental, or Child of Alara, or Sliver Queen etc.
I prefer more mana, rather than less but interchangable.
Posted By:
psyklone
(10/11/2009 5:00:30 PM)
Prismatic Omen is typically a better card, but this is extremely useful in EDH as a back-up. One thing a majority of the other options miss out on is the variety of single-color mana; sometimes producing 5 of one single color is just as useful as one mana of each color.
I just wished it was worded better, even the oracle text is a bit vague. If it just stopped at "Instead" it would be much clearer, as the wording now still gives the impression that you can't choose the origional color (for example, your forests CAN still tap for green, but the wording makes it sound like it can't, and this confusion is obviously shared by people like Draugnor)
Posted By:
Dr.Pingas
(3/3/2011 12:13:57 PM)
Prismatic Omen is great until you see your opponent plays a Sundering Titan.
I thought this thing was one of the best cards ever when it came out. If I was that naive nowadays, today's cards would give me seizures.
Posted By:
BegleOne
(7/27/2011 5:15:06 PM)
I'm confused. I think the card's wording is pretty specific. "... it produces mana of any once color instead of its normal type." To me, that says if you tap a forest, it can produce a black, blue, red or white mana, but not green.
However, some of the comments I've read here, and the rulings on the first page indicate that you can tap that forest for green. Huh? How the heck does that work?
Most of the time it wouldn't matter, but I was playing my neighbor last night. He was playing mono-white and I dropped this on him, which really messed up his day. But if he could still tap his plains for white mana, what good would it do?
I just don't understand how the powers-that-be can make a ruling that so blatantly violates the rule text on the card.
Posted By:
Duddits
(11/5/2011 9:25:34 AM)
Duddits, the way the cards worded may be little confusing, but what's meant is this:
If you tap a basic land for mana, instead of only being able to produce the one color it normally would, it's capable of tapping for any color of mana. tapping for any color DOES include tapping for the original color. it's simply replacing tapping for the normal color with the ability to tap for any color.
if it was supposed to be any color but its original type it would say "If a basic land you control is tapped for mana, it produces mana of any color except its normal type"
Posted By:
ActivistBunny
(11/12/2011 6:34:30 PM)
A budget option for people choked for mana fixing, I suppose. Plenty better options in this day and age. Awesome art, though.
Posted By:
Lord_Ascapelion
(1/15/2013 2:36:39 PM)
You can get hosed with Prismatic Omen more easily than with Pulse of Llanowar:
Cards like Boil, Flashfires, Acid Rain or Sunburst Titan could really ruin your day.
On the other side, Prismatic Omen only costs {1} {G} whereas this costs {3} {G} ... also Prismatic Omen has more synergy with Coalition Victory.
Posted By:
tcollins
(12/14/2013 8:20:23 AM)