Don't forget, it turns pain lands, fetch lands, colourless lands and so on into coloured mana producers.
Posted By:
psyklone
(10/16/2010 3:58:34 AM)
Combo with Overgrown Estate, although admittedly, {W}{B}{G} is a pretty uncommon color combo. Could also use Zuran Orb. Tap your lands for mana, sac them for life, then play this.
Posted By:
cathode01
(3/14/2011 7:58:07 PM)
I save it in my hand until I can also cast balance. Still, not the best card.
Posted By:
Tetsu_tora
(3/30/2011 5:07:31 PM)
It's rating is kind of dissapointing. Makes me wonder, why isn't anybody playing Squandered Resources anymore? Although it was abused it's still good especially with this card.
Posted By:
Rezzy64
(7/14/2011 7:37:38 PM)
I'd like to cast this with blacker lotus.
Posted By:
Gargantula
(5/14/2012 8:54:09 PM)
Growin' a whole gosh-durn crop of Lotus Vales this year!
Posted By:
Kirbster
(6/18/2012 9:51:26 AM)
Unplayable?
I run four of these in a mono-green mana ramp deck and can Genesis Wave for 40 turn 4. This card is a lot like death pit offering, in my opinion. You get out three llanowar elves and an exploration (Or Burgeoning, Sakura-tribe scout, whatever). Then you play this, wipe your lands, and also have a life from the loam in hand or a crucible of worlds in play, and play 2-4 lands. Easy.
I run a playset of these, (foil) and if ANYONE challenges me on the playablility of this card, post it.
Posted By:
twiddleman12
(8/18/2012 8:06:37 PM)
A pretty unique ability and broken with the right cards. 3.5/5
Posted By:
Jerec_Onyx
(10/30/2012 5:05:23 PM)
Second Sunrise?
Posted By:
Haziad
(1/24/2013 8:40:41 PM)
This card is currently a bit underrated in my opinion.
It's in fact rather unplayable in general, but this card has interesting combo potential.
You could for example get some mana accel to play this card earlier, or Crucible of Worlds combined with effects that let you put more lands into play, like Exploration.
Or, possibly even better:
/edit note: I wrote nonsense here /
Put it into play without being required to pay its cost and evade the entire drawback. Take a close look at this card: as opposed to most cards with such an devasting drawback, it doesn't trigger when the card enters, it's an additional cost instead.
Therefore you can put it into play with cards like Academy Rector, Show and Tell, Wargate, Replenish, Reweave, Lost Auramancers, Gate to the Æther, Hypergenes... (see all)
Posted By:
Mode
(11/8/2013 5:14:18 AM)