Oh god . . I just saw
high tide + Blue Sun's Zenith + Candelabra of Tawnos
mill deck . . Your opponent draws infinite cards. GG?
This card is far beyond broken . .
Edit - oh . . effect changed . . ?
Now it has to tap in order to activate . .
It is not as ridiculous as I thought.
5/5
Posted By:
Hoonster
(3/9/2011 1:23:50 PM)
soo...
Cloudpost, this.
Cloudpost, Emrakul.
Subtle utility? No.
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(3/10/2011 7:22:14 PM)
Definitely not as abusable as Magus of the Candelabra, but on the other hand, it's more flexible and faster.
Posted By:
cathode01
(2/7/2011 1:05:46 AM)
Play this in a Vorinclex EDH deck.
Posted By:
SarpNasty
(11/18/2011 9:42:46 PM)
I posted that some years ago when I newer. I didn't think about abusing it. I had thought about it in a regular deck. Yeah this card is good. I can't believe I said that this was bad.
Posted By:
alblast
(5/3/2012 10:40:41 AM)
To be fair, not many players that weren't playing back when mono artifacts existed would know that they intrinsically tapped. I know I didn't - I was playing against someone who popped down two Cloudposts + this, and it certainly seemed like an infinite mana combo (after blowing up the first with a Qasali Pridemage, then watching him put down a second and see him not going infinite with it, I decided to double check here and saw the Oracle wording for the card... my poor, wasted Pridemage). Still quite good though - cheap ramp with any lands that produce 2+ mana (so the Ravnica bounce lands like Golgari Rot Farm, not to mention sexy stuff like Gaea's Cradle and Cabal Coffers).
Posted By:
JaxsonBateman
(12/14/2012 3:41:03 AM)
I know this card has been considered awesome since way before most of the cards you can break it with these days existed.. What was the trick early on? Urza's Tower, Mine and Power plant? Was it used simply as a colour-fixer?
Posted By:
JovianHomarid
(2/13/2013 2:10:02 AM)
@JaxsonBateman
It wasn't a waste to blow it up. If you leave it in play, he can still tap all his cloudposts for mana, and then untap them. If he had just 3 cloudposts and 2 of these in play, he would get:
+9 mana to start (9)
-3 to untap his lands (6)
+9 mana against (15)
-3 to untap (12)
+9 against (21)
21 mana! He could have casted emrakul with that.
Posted By:
SAUS3
(6/7/2013 1:47:08 PM)
You know, I think this card could be reprintable. Just bump up the mana cost to say {4} and maybe it could work and not cost $500
Posted By:
atemu1234
(7/8/2013 8:40:24 AM)
Good card.
It's kinda funny. The flavor text on this card, which talks about how simplicity leads to utility, can be applied to pretty much every busted card from Urza block. (Gaea's Cradle, Tolarian Academy, Yawg Will, ect.)
Posted By:
BongRipper420
(7/9/2013 10:46:03 AM)