@Jdrawer: Hell yeah. There is scarcely a better Shock target.
@EveryNightMagicNight: I'm sure you've learned this by now, but that mana will empty from your pool at the end of the current phase. The ability works just like a basic land, except it gives uncolored mana.
Little details like that are easy for newer players to trip up on- surprisingly many players don't understand the exact difference between land and mana. I've heard a player say they had a Swamp in their mana pool, for example. Don't worry, it'll become second nature soon.
Posted By:
JimmyNoobPlayer
(10/3/2013 4:32:40 AM)
Seriously? All the top comments are complaints?
Look, this card is good. It is great. It is arguably the best infect card out there. (Phyrexian Crusader is damn fine.) It is not broken though. It is certainly not the best man-land out there. I will address everyone's complaints, (some are valid) but first: Infect has anti-synergy with loss of life. You may recall loss of life as the way almost every match is decided and the way almost all aggro cards are printed for. That is a massive weakness for infect. Right out of the box you are working with a much smaller toolkit than other aggro decks. It is true that infect gets better use out of spells boosting power, and I have won many games on the back of a boosted inkmoth.
Infect is not terribly powerful though. It didn't win tournaments, it was hard to draft. The one-shot-robot is the only infect to see play in eternal, and that isn't so much an infect deck as it is a one-hit kill deck. Calling a deck like th... (see all)
Posted By:
Enelysios
(12/23/2013 12:12:13 PM)
Infect got their one-drop.
Oh ***.
Posted By:
HairlessThoctar
(1/27/2011 4:32:08 PM)
turn 1: inkmoth nexus "oh, an infect deck"
turn 2: mountain... "in red?"
attack with the inkmoth... "ok i can tak..."
!!! BLAZING SHOAL !!!
"WTF dude? I thought we were playing standard?"
Posted By:
roguepariah
(2/14/2011 7:13:14 AM)
Just what infect needed, a way to turn unused lands into an infect creature with evasion. Wonderful, just wonderful.
Posted By:
lordof1000mimes
(1/27/2011 3:30:45 PM)
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Posted By:
Faralay
(1/28/2011 12:48:57 AM)
I have a question, if you activate the ability and make it a creature, would you then be able to tap it for mana for Myr Superion? I think you should be able to since it would still be a mana producing land, just a creature as well for a turn.
Posted By:
drakattak
(4/27/2011 10:38:43 AM)
Great first turn land for Poison Control. Turn two give them a Poison Counter and then later in the game sacrifice it to Throne of Geth to proliferate all your wonderful Poison Counters and -1/-1 Counters.
Posted By:
Rikiaz
(4/30/2011 9:56:03 AM)
Such a perfect utility card, I wish the art were better. This is the ugliest man-land since Zoetic Cavern (if that even counts). If only they could've used Jung Park's really gorgeous Island art for this card.
@drakattak: Yes.
@Kidromeo: Sure, a land creature can be equipped like any other creature. When it ceases to be a creature, it ceases to be equipped as a "state-based action" (basically, that means you can't respond to the un-equipping with spells or abilities, it just happens). If the land is made into a creature again during your next turn, the equipment will remain unequipped, but you can pay to re-equip it each turn. (I've done this with a Loxodon Warhammer and a Nantuko Monastery, because a 7/4 Insect Monk with first strike, lifelink, and trample is about as awesome as it gets.)
Posted By:
Salient
(8/16/2011 2:48:05 AM)
INFECT + LAND = HAPPY
Posted By:
A0602
(1/27/2011 2:42:33 PM)