Very straightforward; great for messing up tempo against a multi-colored deck!
Posted By:
shadowf0x
(7/23/2009 10:12:17 AM)
@Baloney: Why wouldn't you destroy your opponent's lands? Terravore works off of ALL graveyards, so give them the land disadvantage while you're at it. Also, if you're running red-green-white, Armageddon is simply better for pumping that Terravore. Hell, even just green-white.
Posted By:
lukemol
(2/18/2010 6:11:07 PM)
Once upon a time, this was what many Magic games were about:
T1: Birds of Paradise
T2: Stone Rain
T3: Avalanche Riders
T4: Shivan Wumpus, or basically any four- or five-drop. Or something like a second Stone Rain or a Creeping Mold. It shouldn't be that hard to win when you can cast 6/6s, when your opponent can only hope that they draw their second land, right?
This doesn't mean they can't ever reprint Stone Rain, Molten Rain or Pillage. But even the fastest Kuldotha Red draw could be destroyed by a single Marrow Shard. If they want to bring land destruction back down to three mana, they need to print a good LD hoser at either zero or one mana, not two, and preferably one that's still playable even when you're not playing against LD.
Posted By:
Gabriel422
(7/19/2011 7:49:43 AM)
Good solid spell, but why it wasn;t reprinted since 9th edition ? Players hate land destruction that much ?
Posted By:
True_Smog
(2/14/2010 11:30:25 AM)
I'm not really sure which color has the best land destruction... Red has a good deal of solid spells, but so does black, and white has Armageddon ...
Anyway, Stone Rain is probably the most commonly used land destruction spell (?). Though it may not be a Pillage, it still retains a decent manacost of 3, and is easy to splash for.
As for why this didn't get reprinted after 9th edition, I think it's because some players REALLY hate land destruction. I mean, it's a lot of fun to play with a land destruction deck, but playing against it becomes a pain - the only real action you get to take, is to draw a card at the beginning of your turn, and discarding excess cards at the end of your turn :/
Also, if you want to play with a land destruction deck, you might wanna run Magnivore, since most land destruction spells are sorceries.
EDIT: oh yeah, if you splash white, you could also run Ajani Vengeant
Posted By:
GrimjawxRULES
(7/12/2010 11:49:55 AM)
I have an entire deck based on cards like this. It's called "Make it Rain then I club Ya"
Posted By:
CatsAreCthala
(2/4/2010 8:21:56 PM)
I miiiiiiiissssssss you. T.T
Posted By:
Tommy9898
(5/2/2011 9:17:33 PM)
eventually they will have to lift the ban on this card and reprint it. land destruction is completely fair.
Posted By:
Arachibutyrophobia
(8/14/2011 11:17:21 PM)
Definitely more unfun than Counterspell. Until it sees a reprint, neither should Stone Rain (thought to be honest I'd rather see neither.)
Posted By:
Nagoragama
(9/5/2011 2:05:45 AM)
Black is far superior to red in terms of land destruction. This and Pillage are the only two cheap red land destruction spells. Black has Sinkhole and Blight. I have a land destruction deck of both colors, and the black one is the only one that completely wipes out their manabase. The red one can only get them down to two or three, and sometimes that's enough to bounce back from.
Posted By:
blindthrall
(5/14/2011 5:35:34 PM)