In today's game, yes, this is too expensive. When it was released, it was actually a decent card, since there were not a lot of ways to have your creatures do direct damage at that time. The beauty of this card was that it was colorless, which opened up options for colors other than 
to do some direct damage. The game tended to be much slower back then, so you could spend 
on this sort of thing and actually have several turns to use it. Artifacts were actually somewhat rare back then, unlike today. This card now is only valuable for the nostalgia it creates.
Posted By:
TheMurderousKitten
(7/19/2011 3:30:40 PM)
Overcosted. Halving the cost would make this good.
Posted By:
A3Kitsune
(9/2/2010 11:58:09 PM)
I could see this being reprinted the Innistrad block. It so wouldn't break standard could be really good with morbid in limited
Posted By:
Bass1987
(10/16/2011 7:18:28 AM)
Obsolete. Now only good in Retro Backdraft.
Posted By:
car2n
(2/19/2014 7:38:41 PM)