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Druid of the Anima is strictly worse. People may forget, but the second ability does not require tapping to use, nor does it have a limit to the number of uses. You can even use the first ability to pay for the second, effectively making the text:

Tap: Add Green, Red, or White to your mana pool.
1: Add Red or White to your mana pool.
Posted By: Equinox523 (5/11/2011 9:54:04 AM)
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Equip him with a Runed Stalactite to make him an elemental, then play Ceaseless Searblades and activate the filter ability with itself a few thousand times for huge Searblades.
Posted By: Ideatog (6/23/2011 3:14:06 PM)
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I run this guy in a casual Red or Green Dragon tribal deck; it fixes my mana for Rith, the Awakener (and Rorix Bladewing if I'm coming up short on the RedRedRed).

I also run him in basically every RedGreenWhite deck I build.
Posted By: Ragamander (1/15/2012 6:37:07 PM)
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This is strictly better than druid of anima because if you need red or white from it you can tap it and channel the green mana it produces through its own ability in addition to allowing you to filter all of your other mana including mana from nonland sources such as ashnod's altar. noble hierarch is better but only because it costs 1 less. For the record, I'd rather use Skyshroud Elf than prismatic omen in a rgw deck, because it's much better at mana fixing than the aforementioned.
Posted By: Digit (5/17/2009 9:30:47 AM)
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In these days of blatant powercreep, it's nice to see a brother of rath block outpower Druid of the Anima.
Posted By: Kirbster (9/6/2010 11:56:11 AM)
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Prismatic Omen, let's you change the mana produced from your basic lands, and also lets your advanced lands produce mana if they otherwise didn't.
Skyshroud Elf, let's you have your mana be directly changed, for situations like Cloudpost, Braid of Fire, Ashnod's Altar, and other effects. Also adds one mana.

If the logic of, for objective a, choose either enchantment or creature is to choose enchantment because creature's die easier, then why don't we only make enchantment decks? Or we could, yknow, use that one extra green mana from skyshroud to pop a withstand death. One extra turn should definitely last you long enough to get your usage out of him.

Of course, I'm not hating on Prismatic Omen, it definitely has it's uses, it's not a strictly better or worse, they do different things. Prismatic changes the mana producers to produce any mana, Skyshroud funnels any mana into th... (see all)
Posted By: Psuedonaut (2/10/2011 9:38:24 AM)
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I like this a lot. It can convert mana from Channel into colored mana.
Posted By: Etregan (3/20/2010 2:39:17 PM)
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Noble Hierarch would be much better for the Green and White mana, while Druid of the Anima would be better for the G/W/R mana.

What makes this card very significant in a Naya colored deck though, is that it could turn any mana of any color into R/W mana at will, but it is done once someone kills it. Enchantment destruction isn't nearly as common, so I would just use a Prismatic Omen.
Posted By: Gheta (4/10/2009 10:04:21 AM)
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Goes Infinite with Mana Reflection
Posted By: DaJoshMaster (3/5/2013 9:21:57 AM)
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Definitely one of the neatest mana elves in the game. Too bad the name makes it so hard to reprint.
Posted By: Lord_Ascapelion (12/5/2012 9:27:03 PM)
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