This was before Wizards had invented fairness and balance. 5/5 and if you think ANY card (other than Storm Crow) is better, you will get Doom Bladed in real life.
Posted By:
ClockworkSwordfish
(1/20/2010 2:21:49 PM)
I remember when $11 for this card was considered highway robbery.
Posted By:
Kirbster
(7/11/2010 5:43:25 PM)
wtf is not rating 5/5. you can only have one of them and only in one turny. not to mention it cost several 10k's a pop. but anyone who is obtuse enough to not see this cards potential has no right on this web page and bad-talking what you obviously don't understand.
@biollante,: say that when your opponint has a time vault and a volatic key out on turn one, and still has the mana to activate them.
@BlackLotusIsTerrible: guilded lotus doesn't come out fast enough, and it was a remake of THIS, not the other way around
Posted By:
bijart_dauth
(10/3/2010 3:26:25 PM)
The release of Prototype Prototype Portal is going to make this very interesting. One Black Lotus a turn.
Posted By:
greyhour
(10/9/2010 11:17:11 PM)
This card is for lack of a better term Mtgs proverbial Philosophers stone it can make any deck better just by being in it i have only seen this card once and it was used on me and i was about to kill the guy and take it (or my friends we're about to lol)
Posted By:
Llandner
(12/3/2009 8:45:19 PM)
I started playing magic in early 1995. By that time, I've heard of Black Lotus every now & then from my friends.
I wanted to buy one but, of course, it's too late to get one already. To think that it came out just more than a year and a half before i started buying & playing MTG.
I don't think I'll live to see this card getting reprinted. Even a Lotus Petal is hard to find nowadays. Well, at least i got four petals in my collection. Damn, where did i put that time machine of mine. :)
Posted By:
getz19
(4/15/2010 11:58:59 PM)
there is a very simple reason why this card is not (collectively) rated higher. it is the same reason super powerful cards like BSA and Jace 2.0 aren't rated near the top even though they are excellent cards. the reason is because angry people low-rate these good cards because they are envious that they cannot afford to play with them. They think that every card good card should be accessible to all players...nevermind that completely contradicts the 'collectible' part of this collectible card game.
for the record, I do not have $2K to spend on a piece of cardboard, but I still give it a 5/5 because that is what it deserves :)
Posted By:
tantallum99
(12/4/2010 9:25:06 PM)
strictly worse than storm crow
Posted By:
stille_nacht
(7/16/2011 3:09:27 PM)
I would say that half the people on this thread, are either trolling, stupid to the point of brain damage, or simply like to feel superior and thus will badmouth anything they have no chance of either obtaining or understanding.
Sad, really. But hey, it means amusement for the rest of us.
Black Lotus is a utility card. Plain and simple. It provides you three mana of any one color as early as turn one, and there are what must be, like, dozens of ways to win that first turn, if you have this utility card in a deck worth its salt. Yes, some people say "you need a good deck to use it though!!1eleven! But the point is, THAT'S HOW ANY DECK WORKS. God, people. There is no such thing as an invincible card. Even in the B.L.'s case, you need it turn one or two, and you need to be competent to not only build a deck that can utilize it, but also to have the brains to comprehend what you're trying to do. I admit, not a lot of people can really do that, and I don't know if that's good or bad for ... (see all)
Posted By:
Lateralis0ne
(6/18/2010 3:22:48 PM)
I like the fact that they tried to create a more balanced version of this. I think Lotus Bloom is a useful card actually, although the delay will make it rather useless if you don't draw it early.
Therefore Black Lotus still overshadows this one by far - and it should, since any card getting near the awesomeness of it is quite broken.
Posted By:
Mode
(7/17/2009 8:11:48 AM)