This card is the most OP card I have ever seen in my years of playing the game. My friend runs this in a deck, and despite only having 1, can still win easily on turn 3:
1. Forest, Concordant Crossroads
2. Forest, Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
3. Tap Rofellos and forests for Spontaneous Generation for 5 saprolings, play Forest, crop rotation into Gaea's Cradle, tap Gaea's Cradle for 5, Coat of Arms, swing for 25
It's gross. I played it without knowing much about it and didn't realize I'd won on my third turn until I swung. There's a reason this land costs way too much.
Posted By:
TheMuffinMethod
(4/23/2013 1:14:40 AM)
I remember when these were a dime a dozen
Posted By:
sheebishere
(5/9/2013 9:48:02 PM)
regarding the new 2013 rulings about this card (now you can have one, tap it, and then play another one and tap it). Im having a discussion with a friend, was this never possible before? i remember a very brief period circa 1999 where you could tap 2 cradles in a single turn, thou it was rapidly changed. anyone remembers this?
Posted By:
lukegilmour
(5/24/2013 8:37:55 PM)
I'm really afraid Wizards is going to follow up the Legendary rules change with a list of bannings. If the secondary market spikes, and then bans occur, all they will have accomplished is turn former staples into worthless pieces of cardboard.
Posted By:
Tempted_Johnny
(5/24/2013 10:10:02 PM)
This card is only better than Tolarian Academy because it's not banned,
Posted By:
MJ_Berry
(7/16/2013 12:04:04 AM)
I stopped playing magic 14 years ago. I still have the price list from that day. Gaea's Cradle sold for a whopping $7.18 on average. Impressive, certainly, but not as good as Sandals of Abdallah, which would set you back a cool $8.37 on average. Yeah.
That booster box I bought back in the day seems like an increasingly good investment now...
Posted By:
Haywood
(8/26/2013 4:19:54 PM)
Wouldnt it be great if we made a card where ALL your creatures have llanowar elves ability? Yeah but lets put it on a land and instead of the creatures tapping, the land taps for like 10 mana dude
~Stoned developer during the urza block.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(11/15/2013 2:16:49 AM)
I picked one of these up for my Karador EDH deck thinking it would be a nice mana accelerator, then I tapped it for 12 mana O.o
Broken beyond belief, 5/5 Stars
Posted By:
Hunter06
(12/20/2013 6:26:02 AM)
Only ever bought one pack of Urza's Saga. Got this. Have no idea where it went :(
Posted By:
gut.gemacht
(1/12/2014 8:39:49 PM)
As of now, worth $135. Had one in my green saproling deck, and I never knew it's price.
Posted By:
car2n
(2/13/2014 10:00:10 AM)