Cool card design. Not for every deck, but a 0-mana cycler that also can function as a (admittedly less-than-stellar) creature is cool. Artwork is nice as well. Cycling is a useful mechanic...I'd love to see more cycling in the future that had "different" costs like this. 4.5/5 (rated it this high because artwork & design is great, not because it's 4.5/5 in terms of playability necessarily).
Posted By:
ofwgktaftw
(5/23/2011 5:48:19 PM)
I get the feeling that this card could be reprinted in Innistrad.
Posted By:
BMorel
(8/26/2011 10:07:52 PM)
He is gangsta...
Posted By:
Keino
(9/15/2009 12:58:38 PM)
Free cycling, what's not to like?
Posted By:
kroen
(9/6/2009 6:41:38 AM)
@ Enelysios: Do you mean if you cast this guy you're winning? Because actually it has a use on the battlefield (though not through casting). Living End.
Posted By:
j_mindfingerpainter
(8/30/2012 3:32:58 PM)
EDIT: My original post underestimated this. It's actually great in my deck that uses three Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth -- the deck-thinning helps my combos and as a late-game top-deck its evasion is useful because of the tomb.
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This would rock so much if the baseline card were just a LITTLE more playable. Either that, or maybe make the cycling 1 life. As it is, 2.5/5. The mechanic has so much potential though!
Posted By:
Paleopaladin
(9/10/2011 4:11:16 PM)
I feel like I'm one of the only people that like the futureshifted card frame.
About the card itself, I don't think I'd ever play it. The cycling seems like the main part of the card, which kind of makes me wonder what went into design, as it has swampwalk, which doesn't even have much flavor behind it.
Posted By:
Abl
(1/14/2012 5:07:39 PM)
3/4 swampwalk is a bit of a quandary for your opponents playing Blood Crypts and Overgrown Tombs. They're not sure whether to kill it or not, and sometimes it just gets there. One of the best applications of this card is in the Living End Modern combo deck. You pay 2 life to draw the card and get the creature whenever you play the namesake card.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(10/21/2012 10:56:59 PM)
So Gitaxian Probe, this, manamorphose, anything I'm missing.
Posted By:
TheKazu
(5/6/2013 9:27:15 PM)