Provides 
mana next turn. Powerful old legend from legends.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(11/1/2013 11:35:12 PM)
Fantastic Card. Have a lovely EDH deck meant to flicker him for ridiculous amounts of mana. Or, the shenanigans.
Posted By:
Caboose249
(11/12/2012 9:30:55 PM)
Ra-Ra-Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine! (and mana too)
Posted By:
Arachnos
(1/17/2013 2:27:43 PM)
So um. Place this guy with Nim deathmantle and any reliable infinite sac engine (preferably artifact to make use of his innate colorless mana) and you instantly have infinite mana + infinite damage prevention. seems solid in blue white
Posted By:
Muggy8
(4/3/2013 11:36:00 PM)
Cloudshift, Flicker, Vensor, or similar could potentially leave you with 14+ or more colourless mana just by himself.
Posted By:
BloodDragon
(4/6/2013 11:20:42 AM)
@longwinded
I finally found a way to get more than seven dream counters, but you can't put them on him. Play Bant.
Experiment Kraj + Fate Transfer
Come up with a way to get a +1/+1 counter on Rasputin, which shouldn't be hard with Kraj around, and then Fate Transfer the counters over. Now Kraj has
Remove a dream counter from Experiment Kraj: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Remove a dream counter from Experiment Kraj: Prevent the next 1 damage that would be dealt to Experiment Kraj this turn.
But no seven counters restriction! Yeah!
Stupidly costly and probably not worth it, but finally you can target him with Vorel of the Hull Clade and Gilder Bairn and other miscellaneous counter abilities.
Posted By:
NARFNra
(7/20/2013 9:03:09 PM)
This guy really should've gotten a reprint in Commander 2013. Rubinia Soulsinger got in, and this guy has much more potential than tap-stealing does. Plus his abilities are perfectly suited for multiplayer Commander. Oh well, maybe someday.
Posted By:
MizziumSculptor444
(11/14/2013 8:44:52 AM)
Bant colors: Rubinia Soulsinger, Vorel of the Hull Clade, Gilder Bairn and Contagion Engine.
Maybe Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer and Azor's Elocutors.
Even consider Umezawa's Jitte, Aether Vial, Experiment Kraj, Sages of the Anima, Phytohydra, Smokestack, Lorescale Coatl, Vedalken Heretic, Forgotten Ancient, Sphinx of the Magosi, Fangren Firstborn, Kavu Predator, Scute Mob, Master Biomancer, Prophet of Kruphix, Bred for the Hunt, Horizon Chimera, Vigean Hydropon...the list goes on!
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Posted By:
MattLynn
(1/20/2014 6:04:21 PM)
dreams of the dead recure EtB/ flicker effects from GY @ instant speed in u/w. that covers flickerwisp, restoration angel, Rasputin himself...
Posted By:
tragicslip
(2/2/2014 10:42:16 PM)
I'd really like to see this guy reprinted.
Up-to-date art, and a cleaned-up textbox would really do him a favour, and I see no reason to keep a card that's of no use in competitive Legacy/Vintage (yet of limitless potential in casual settings) so rare that even damaged versions are valued ~30$.
As for playability, he's probably one of the most interesting and fun creatures of his manacost - quite a direct threat with a power of 4, a good blocker and relatively hard to get rid of with his damage sponge, a mana factory, a beautiful ramp to beefy colorless effects and cards, say, a Sundering Titan, and your first address for flicker-effects.
Come to think of it, a deck with the Titan, Rasputin and some blinking (Momentary Blink, Deadeye Navigator, maybe the Vensers...) would be a pretty sweet one.
Posted By:
IndubitableSalmon
(2/27/2014 1:40:35 AM)