Black Lotus is 3-mana on turn one, this is 3 mana on turn three. That already slows down one-turn combo decks considerably, allowing other decks enough time to respond. On-top of that, the reason Black Lotus is selling at 3,000+ is because all one-turn combo decks need to win on turn-one or turn-two and Black Lotus has collector's value since it was printed in the very first set and extremely hard to find in the first place. Its like how people would pay 100K+ for a vintage muscle car from the 60s even though a 2012 honda civic costs 20K and is half-a-century more advance.
Posted By:
Hermeezey
(8/25/2012 5:49:50 PM)
Wait, so this is a turn 4, 3 lands of any choice for no cost and its only like $7 and legal on all formats?!?!? 0.o Opening hand with 2-3 of these would be crazy.
Posted By:
iHARBiNG3R
(11/8/2012 1:51:21 PM)
@DarthParallax
You don't seem to understand Engineered explosives.
Also, It's CMC = 0. It's MANA COST (not converted) is undefined or null or what have you.
Posted By:
CogMonocle
(3/20/2014 12:13:41 PM)