this might be the only time when playing One with Nothing could be useful. Besides that, I guess you could use it for Hellbent or Reanimation... but that's it.
Now i guess there's another reason: to combo with Balance of Power... how prestigious
Posted By:
Ferlord
(2/19/2012 9:58:53 AM)
This card really should be white. White is lacking in a distinctive form of card draw other than enchantresses, and not all white decks want to run that many enchantments. But balancing, which is even in the name, is very white, such as with, say, Balance. This card still wouldn't be amazing if it was white, but I bet it would be appreciated in white, especially in EDH/Commander, as the white mage otherwise has access to less good card draw options than the blue mage does. At least a 3/5 if it were white, but as it is blue and it has to fight a lot more cards for the slot, a 2/5 only because of the interesting design (1/5 on power level alone).
Posted By:
sarroth
(12/27/2012 3:01:58 PM)
Half of the time, this won't even do anything. If it was an instant, maybe it would be decent sideboard material against crazy card-drawing cards. Otherwise, this is blue for goodness sakes. Play Tidings and be done with it.
Posted By:
Champion_Kitsune
(10/15/2009 8:25:49 PM)
Well, why not take a Slithermuse instead? This would actually be useful if it was three mana. It's overcosted as all hell.
Posted By:
KillerWhiskey
(1/25/2010 4:20:06 PM)
By the time you can play this in blue, you should be drawing -3 cards. Maybe in a multiple color deck it'll work well but that's it.
Posted By:
staggerwing
(11/13/2008 8:30:14 AM)
I give it a 2,5, it's a bit costy and there are better draw spells, but after your opponent uses something to draw more, you can also do that with this card.
Posted By:
Shiduba
(7/26/2009 6:48:19 AM)
agreed, tidings will almost always be better
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(9/8/2010 2:54:49 PM)
This card was originally from Portal and even has the same art, that's gotta be rare.
Posted By:
TreeTrunkMaster
(4/18/2011 1:22:27 PM)
So, inspirational art for Mana Tithe? This card sucks btw.
Posted By:
Eved
(5/20/2011 1:46:18 PM)
well if you have 4 forced fruition on the field and your opponent just countered your unsummon, and you had 1 or 2 jace's erasure or even a niv-mizzet, the firemind on the field then I guess this could work, but why wouldn't the game have already ended by then? I guess under the perfect situation this card would work
Posted By:
Saxican
(7/29/2011 10:55:50 PM)