Last year, I traded a Gideon for a Tolarian. Best decision I've ever made.
Posted By:
001010011100101110
(9/3/2011 8:09:54 PM)
Broken Beyond Belief...Nuff Said
Posted By:
Davidvo89
(7/22/2009 2:40:50 PM)
If any uninitiated individual is wondering why this innocent looking land is broken beyond belief, the reason is because there are somewhere between 75 and 80 thousand ways to get infinite blue mana from it. No really, I counted.
Posted By:
Laguz
(8/31/2009 6:01:56 AM)
BROKEN goood!
Posted By:
Shoe2
(11/14/2008 11:56:20 AM)
Y'know, I was kinda tempted to vote this at 0.5 just to serve it right for... well, everything, really.
Posted By:
stygimoloch
(12/1/2008 3:18:02 PM)
I read it. Then I read it again.
Then my mind exploded at how absurdly BROKEN this is!
In any artifact deck, then is insane! Say, this, Memnite , Signal Pest, Ornithopter, Wurmcoil Engine, Chimeric Mass and good ol' Inkwel as your starting hand, in a mono U artifact deck with more cheap artifacts and counter spells.
Turn one, this, Memnite, Ornithopter, tap for 2, Signal Pest.
Turn 2, Land (hopefully), tap lands for 4 mana, Chimeric Mass for 4. Bash with your team for 3.
Turn 3, Land/ 0 drop artifact, Tap for 6, Wurmcoil.
Few turns later, Inkwell. Provided they survive the Engine that long.
AND THAT'S WITHOUT THE ARTIFACT LANDS!!!!
Posted By:
WateryMind
(7/5/2011 5:07:12 AM)
How the heck am I gonna use this useless thing?
Posted By:
car2n
(10/3/2013 6:49:19 PM)
Wait, someone actually rated the Academy less than 5?
Really?
Posted By:
uberschveinen
(2/25/2010 12:27:00 AM)
With this and 4 moxes, you can summon OUR GREAT LORD EGOTIST on turn one. If that isn't good, I don't know what is.
Posted By:
izzet_guild_mage
(9/3/2010 8:48:08 PM)
True, you don't have to build a deck around gaea's cradle to make it simply ok. I shouldnt say ok, to make it gooood, very good. But a deck built around The academy gets STUUUUUPID. Because artifact decks get artifact creatures, they get artifact lands, and just plain old artifacts, meaning the academy is getting mana from threeeee different sources whilst gaea's cradle only gets it from one. And with the affinity mechanic... Im not even going to get into it. This card could summon up just about any creature in an artifact deck turns 2-6 depending on luck and potency.
However surprisingly not strictly better than island. Strictly means in every situation, and on turn one when you don't have any artifacts this is not strictly better than island.
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(8/6/2010 10:30:15 PM)