That's untrue. This was used in many tourney decks as creature removal during the period that Homelands was in Standard.
Posted By:
tavaritz
(5/29/2011 3:14:17 AM)
This is pretty nasty with proliferate. It recharges while your opponents bleed out.
Posted By:
Bandswithother
(11/16/2010 4:05:04 PM)
I love this card, but I have to say, tavaritz is drawing wrong conclusions from true information. This was widely and universally derided by tournament players at the time.
Why?
Tournament rules at the time required you to use at least one card from the most current set. And there was a time, for a while, when Homelands was the latest set.
A few people were able to fit Memory Lapse into their deck. Because Serrated Arrows can be shoehorned into any deck and has at least some useful purpose, literally everyone else ran Serrated Arrows. And, everyone hoped they wouldn't see it in their opening 7, or the 7 after that.
Since it was the card everyone played, it was kind of a lightning rod for complaints about Homelands. Nobody in a tournament played this because they wanted to...
...except me. What can I say? I like arrows.
Posted By:
Salient
(2/23/2014 6:11:35 PM)
Thanks to the reprint as a Timeshifted Time Spiral card, it's even Modern legal to use this and proliferate together...
I will also point out that it can even be used to get one of your Undying creatures back which has already died once and now has a +1/+1 counter on it.
Posted By:
Lord_of_Tresserhorn
(3/5/2012 2:56:37 PM)
Merchant Scroll is still Restricted Hairless Thoctar.
But, yeah Baron Sengir, Autumn Willow, and Ishan's Shade didn't age too well. Sad.
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(3/7/2012 12:05:41 PM)
This card got stronger with proliferate.
Posted By:
TheWrathofShane
(11/10/2012 3:53:30 AM)
Such a balanced card. 5 stars for being a decent Homelands card.
Posted By:
themicronaut
(10/9/2010 2:38:20 AM)
Card of the Day - Monday, April 14, 2008
Serrated ArrowsHomelands uncommon. At the first Pro Tour in New York, the format was "Standard, New York Style," which meant that each deck had to include at least five cards from every legal set in the Standard format of the time. This included the most recent set, Homelands, which was short on powerful cards—leading many deck designers to include this creature-weakening artifact.
Posted By:
liir007
(8/10/2009 10:21:23 PM)
I used to be an adventurer like you... then I took an arrowhead counter to the knee.
Posted By:
Kirbster
(12/6/2012 8:38:38 AM)
An effective answer to the "pump knights" of its time, and interesting even by today's standards.
Posted By:
Radagast
(11/4/2011 11:35:24 AM)