Why? It's good when played right, in limited at least. Cashing your chumpblockers and tokens for card advantage isn't too bad. Add proliferate and we got pretty neat draw engine here. That extra 
isn't problem most of the time, because it's barely worth to waste removal on dais before it got 3+ counters.
Yes, it's somewhat situative, but far from useless.
Posted By:
Gavrilo
(10/19/2010 4:59:30 AM)
Ok this would be awesome with Mimic Vat, imprinted with a Coretapper. In two or three turns you can be drawing 6-9 cards. Wow! What do you guys think?
Posted By:
EvilCleavage
(12/1/2010 10:23:29 AM)
@DacenOctavio - I like the sarcasm; as if trying to play four 6CC enchantments in the same game in order to draw four cards when you sacrifice an Eldrazi Spawn is a feasible or superior strategy to simply using Culling Dais. I know you're kidding, though.
I'm building a UR burn/draw deck (red burn that doesn't run out of gas) using Skullclamp and weak pingers like Goblin Arsonist and Perilous Myr. It's true that it only allows you to draw once, but the deck is too lean and fast for Carnage Altar. With this, I could start building up for a large-ish draw which would hopefully contain enough burn to seal the deal. We'll see...
Posted By:
J4bb3rwock
(12/5/2010 9:19:09 PM)
Not that great. You need to have constantly mana available to sac it in response to a removal spell. :| And it's a one-shoft card drawer too... 1/5
Posted By:
majinara
(10/4/2010 4:21:36 AM)
Type your comment here.
Posted By:
Cenelder
(1/14/2011 4:29:15 PM)
fuel for Furnace Celebration
Posted By:
bagilis
(12/13/2010 6:58:26 AM)
Green would benefit from this the most. It's colorless for the plus side and nature guys have a tons of ways to get token creatures. You could also use it with Nuisance Engine and uhhh Rhys the Reedemed in white, if you desperate.
Posted By:
Cloudeye
(5/21/2011 1:12:13 PM)
Reminds me of Safe Haven and City of Shadows. I like this artifact for it's low cmc and almost nothing for maintenance/use. 4/5 Solid. It's a good card to have on the board any time you are playing with creatures. Some of your creatures are probably going to die by your opponents hands, so this is great even without proliferate, sac to Culling Dais and get some extra use out of your creature that just got Doom Bladed.
Posted By:
BonniePrinceCharlie
(6/7/2011 1:34:21 PM)
Isn't this the same art as that on Font of Mythos??
Posted By:
Mike-C
(7/5/2011 4:57:33 AM)
It's the in the activation cost of the second ability that keeps me from putting it into a deck...
Don't want to keep one mana open each turn to make sure my opponent doesn't shatter this and thus gets the card advantage instead this way.
Posted By:
Mode
(10/5/2011 1:33:31 AM)