I run one of these in an artifact with black splash deck. It rarely gets used as a creature, but it doesn't really have any drawbacks as a land.
Posted By:
Faidite
(7/23/2010 6:06:39 AM)
As a way of getting arround counterspells, dealing with an empty hand, or sinking large amounts of mana in the days of mana burn, this is a fairly good creature. Most other man-lands are better, but in formats where they are not available, this is reasonable.
Posted By:
A3Kitsune
(2/15/2010 3:54:44 AM)
Hell, if your monocolor deck has no problems with colored mana... why not?
Kind of the same point as for Blasted Landscape. Although you should probably play that first.
Posted By:
nibelheim_valesti
(6/19/2010 3:35:39 AM)
This was used in counter heavy control decks as a finisher. It gave mana, it activated on your opponent's turn so you never had to be short of mana, and at the time a lot of removal didn't effect it. Lightning Bolt hadn't been reprinted for ages and terror didn't hit artifacts.
Made for incredibly boring games, from what I hear.
Posted By:
djflo
(2/25/2011 1:06:53 AM)
Dread Statuary is better, because it's not permenant, costs less to activate, and is more powerful.
CAN'T FIGHT THE WORLDWAKE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted By:
land_comment
(3/28/2011 7:48:44 AM)
Not terrible but one of the reasons you want animateable lands is to get around Wrath effects. This just walks right into them.
Posted By:
UNBAN_SHAHRAZAD
(6/7/2010 7:56:23 PM)
The art looks ridiculous, but the card is...eh...alright.
Posted By:
Treima
(5/16/2010 5:25:35 PM)
Not bad, but I'd rather have mishra's factory
Posted By:
SAllison87
(4/28/2011 2:54:35 PM)
Incinerate was in cycle when Tempest came out.
Posted By:
tavaritz
(7/30/2011 10:47:23 AM)
Wow, the Mirrodin art outclasses this so much it's kind of ridiculous.......
Posted By:
Goatllama
(3/17/2012 6:43:25 PM)