personally, i think this card is fantastic. its only downfall is giving its effect to oponents, but i run a power of 5+ ( R, W, G) deck with elvish piper, iona, apocalypse hydra, progenitus,jungle weaver, beacon behemoth, spear breaker /spellbreaker behemoth, knotvine mistics, e.t.c
this morning by the third turn i had knotvine mystic. by fith or sixth, still with only three mana, i had jungle weaver, beacon behemoth and two bull cerodons, all in one go. this was all thanks to getting two knotvine mistics, three elvish pipers and keeper of progenitus in the few turns before hand.
Posted By:
mrblobby1991
(12/3/2009 8:35:50 AM)
this card is great in a Chorus of the Conclave deck. Not quite as good as mirari's wake *cough* understatement *cough* but as I got 4 of those this is a welcome addition. ads very succsessful mana ramp, and late game I can turn it into an Autochthon Wurm or bigger
Posted By:
Gezus82
(12/9/2009 11:09:54 PM)
Fun stuff. Tasty fatties sure are tasty. And don't think of the fact that some of your opponents might get mana as a "drawback", think of it as "making friends" :P
Posted By:
izzet_guild_mage
(12/31/2009 11:01:16 PM)
sasaya's essence works alot better than this...but seriously who's gonna get 7 lands in their hand?
Posted By:
Kurhan
(1/20/2010 11:19:07 AM)
The usefulness of this card seems to be heavily dependent on the metagame near you. For example, lots of people in my play group use these three colors, so me running this in my green deck is practically suicide. But if you're in a group where people tend to favor the Islands and Swamps, no big deal. I think it's underrated.
Posted By:
Zulp
(4/5/2010 3:26:23 PM)
I have two words to say about this card... 1. SIDE! 2. BOARD! This card would screw over a mono blue or black deck, if you can avoid a tendrils of corruption any other removal cards.
Posted By:
Mransom909
(4/27/2010 5:16:39 PM)
There are so many better cards to fit into a naya deck, do not use this one.
Posted By:
opinionfailure
(6/3/2010 3:26:30 PM)
Works quite well with the Eldrazi cards, and given that the (arguable) most common decks in standard at the moment are UW control variants you don't accelerate them too badly.
If you build a Naya deck you can protect them with Dauntless Escorts and Eldrazi Monuments, add in some card draw with Wall of Omens, Soul's Majesty (I prefer it over Momentous Fall in my deck as the only creatures that provide a decent amount of cards (3+) are ones that I don't want to sacrifice) and Explore, then wait to get 5-8 basic lands out (I prefer running only basics and fetches in this type of deck to fully utilise the Keepers) and get out one of the legendary Eldrazi cards.
It's not really too competitive, but it's definitely not bad in a casual scenario, and there's nothing quite as fun as hard casting Emrakul on turn 6-8.
Posted By:
JaxsonBateman
(6/12/2010 12:57:30 AM)
ha, lotus cobra beats the heck out of him.
Posted By:
krumtheslow
(10/31/2010 12:27:15 PM)
So it's a biased Mana Flare on legs that will generally end up getting Remove Soul'd or Doom Bladed.
Also, fun stuff with the Alpha dual-lands and the Ravnica shocklands because they each have 2 basic land types.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(2/10/2011 7:07:31 PM)