@chumleyx I don't think paying 6 to return one card you control once per turn-cycle is good, even in casual. Unless you're cards are really limited.
For that cost, bloodthrone vampire 'eating' one of your mentioned removers and then recycling it with a gravedigger costs the same and gives more benefit (in mono-black at least).
Posted By:
Arachobia
(6/11/2011 4:55:17 AM)
This is jelly to Stasis' peanut butter. Not really feasible with any other cards, doesn't need to be. The Channel/Fireball of W/U.
Posted By:
Psychrates
(11/16/2011 2:19:50 PM)
You guys are mentioning how this Obelisk can create a permanent lock with Stasis. Can't Time Elemental do the same thing?
Posted By:
DrJack
(8/20/2012 10:29:23 PM)
I understand its a 12 mana total combo and is very vulnerable to shatterstorm-type effects, but this is one of the only ways in a Karn, Silver Golem Commander deck to return permanents to your hand at a whim. It enables a combo that says "nice counterspells and singleton rules"
Step 1: Mirror Works in play
Step 2: cast Prototype portal, kick it with mirror works
step 3: decline to imprint a card onto the real prototype portal
step 4: in response to your prototype portal copy's imprint trigger, bounce the real portal and imprint onto token.
step 5: make portal tokens imprinting the rest of your deck and laugh at counterspells!
protected by darksteel forge and witchbane orb
Posted By:
Erdrick711
(2/12/2013 6:58:55 AM)
The Battle of Tomakul taught Urza not to rely on artifacts that cost 
to activate.
I used to love this card. The Johnny in me kept pushing me to try and find some way to use it. But it's just too expensive.
Posted By:
Aquillion
(5/13/2013 3:06:05 PM)
Don't you hate it when a perfectly good piece of Tom Wanerstrand art goes to waste?
Posted By:
The_Jabberwocky
(5/19/2013 11:59:52 AM)
Obelisk of Undoing unfortunately doesn't have the power of undoing the mistake of giving it an obscenely expensive activation cost. It couldn't even undo its rare status and turn into an uncommon. How sad.
Posted By:
Mode
(9/4/2013 6:50:48 PM)
Why do people keep mentioning how good it is with stasis? Vedalken Mastermind is much better for that interaction. Tolarian Sentinel works too.
Posted By:
Steel_Ninja
(1/25/2014 11:28:27 AM)