Voltaic Key and Filigree Sages could make this very fun indeed.
Posted By:
Enemy_Tricolor
(10/2/2010 1:38:36 AM)
Don't knock on the blue ability. Scepter of Insight looks bad enough without this card completely obscuring it in the same set. I can tell Wizards likes to keep power among rares equal in the same sets.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(10/24/2010 7:05:27 AM)
None of those abilities are worth the mana, but the shear flexibility of this card makes it a lot better than it looks like on paper. The only problem is you need to be playing a lot of colors to make it worth it, and at one mana more than something like Maelstrom Archangel, it's usually not worth it.
Posted By:
SleetFox
(11/8/2010 10:00:53 PM)
This can be a bear. I run it with Birds of Paradise and Darksteel Ingot, but most of the rest of the deck is Naya.
ALL of the abilities are powerful. The blue looting ability is NOT weak. It creates card quality advantage better than "scry 1" does. And combined with graveyard shenanigans, it creates actual card advantage. In fact, it is the ability most likely to be used because it makes it hard for people to attack you, and it works well at the end of an opponent's turn. You pay 
to get a flexible and repeatable effect.
Posted By:
kiseki
(3/19/2012 4:12:13 PM)
I love The utility of this card, but I don't like the 6 cmc.
Posted By:
Sago
(9/19/2012 9:27:21 PM)
Run this bad-boy in my Promader deck (WUBRG EDH) for flavor, not usefulness. Thing is, it actually works, who doesn't love options? It's like Isochron Sceptering five different instants with one card. Plus, in terms of flavor, it harkens back to Richard Garfield's Boon Cycle (healing salve, dark ritual, giant growth, lightning bolt, and ancestral recall) with appropriate tweaks (or massive overhauls) in power for each one. This card is Alara in a nut shell.
Posted By:
Jerec_Onyx
(10/27/2012 11:55:49 PM)
Obelisk of Alpha
{0}
Mono Artifact
{W}: Gain 3 life, or prevent up to 3 damage from being dealt to a single target.
{U}: Draw 3 cards or force opponent to draw 3 cards.
{B}: Add 3 black mana to your mana pool.
{R}: Obelisk of Alpha does 3 damage to one target.
{G}: Target creature gains +3/+3 until end of turn.
"perfectly balanced" :P
Posted By:
BlakeHN
(2/22/2014 5:24:05 PM)
@WindMasterArceus: You say that like this can only ever have one of those modes. Being able to do any of the five as you choose is what makes this card.
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