true evil best card ever
Posted By:
shinkokagai
(8/14/2009 1:38:26 PM)
everything's good about this card... there is no drawback...
Posted By:
Adren
(10/2/2009 11:28:32 AM)
What were they thinking?
Brokentastic, but awesome.
Posted By:
InfernoTowel
(10/3/2009 12:10:43 PM)
To balance this out, you would have to pay half of your life to activate it, or something that delayed you from using it too soon (suspend, return lands, etc) like the "fixed lotus" versions out there. Of course, 
cost would help, as would lowering the mana it gives to CMC 1. At that point, you could just have this come into play tapped, and it's suitable to not require sacrifice of it.
Modern-era Lotus:
Legendary Artifact
"M.E. Lotus" can not cost less than , for any reason.
Comes into play tapped.
T: Add any color of mana to your mana pool, play this ability only ONCE each turn.
I fixed it!
It's on par with Command Tower, Ancient Ziggurat, City of Brass, etc.
Posted By:
MattLynn
(4/6/2013 4:50:00 AM)
I believe that this is an AMAZING card, but the onl;y thing that is bad about it is it's selling cost. Nobody is going to pay thousands for this. I absolutely know how powerful this is, but i hope sombody agrees with me that it is not worth the money.
Posted By:
Blubicles
(5/3/2013 3:09:42 PM)
To all that say this card isn't more powerful than the rares that have been printed in recent years. You are wrong. No other card could be the source of so many combos and engine of so many T1 Vintage decks. Born from magics infancy before the rules we have now ever came to be this card along with the rest of the P9 will always be the best of the best.
Posted By:
heardroundtheworld
(7/2/2009 10:13:54 AM)
Do you guys realise, Sliver Queen is rated higher than this epic card... I still give it a 5/5 because it's just cool to be able to brag that you have one(I still don't but still)
Posted By:
Michiel198
(5/7/2010 2:04:57 PM)
I read a comment in the Reverberate discussion on how it was a cheesy way around the reprint list and that Black Lotus might get the same treatment. I didn't want to go off topic in there so I'll do it here.
They will likely never directly reprint lotus in a cheesy way out of fear from underground Black Lotus Market mobsters. If we see a new lotus in Besieged or Action then It will likely work around metal craft and Imprint.
It would look like:
Metal Lotus {0}
Legendary Artifact
Imprint - Exile a basic land from your hand.
Metalcraft - {T}: Sacrifice Metal Lotus to add 3 mana of same kind the exiled card could produce. Activate this ability only if you control three or more Artifacts.
A deck may only have one Metal lotus.
Playing with other 0 costed artifacts means getting this out on the first turn kills the hand to 3. It could always be made colorless non artifact to kill your hand to two. Which may need to be necessary for peeps playi... (see all)
Posted By:
Bandswithother
(11/16/2010 9:00:09 AM)
rhcjrtoon, you don't counter this using Force of Will - ever... you could, but it would be stupid.
Counter what your opponent plays using the Lotus. He'll be (at least) two cards down.
Posted By:
Orza
(1/15/2011 6:13:55 AM)
I wish I had one!
Posted By:
Progle
(8/9/2011 4:34:08 PM)