I met a guy at the RoE pre-release who said he'd torn his copy of Eye of Ugin up because it was "worthless". Even without Eldrazi, I wanted a few copies so I could tutor out Darksteel Colossus and friends in EDH. I may have mentioned this to him, quietly. >.>
Posted By:
Ogrillion
(4/17/2010 8:37:01 PM)
Makes the ROE set even more game-breaking than it already was.
Posted By:
SoulShatterer
(6/28/2010 9:12:33 AM)
Eldrazi already run incredible mana acceleration, and hard-casting Emrakul gives you that extra turn even if he somehow doesn't get to see play. Any of the other two also give these kinds of effect off, and 7 is easy to pay with the Spawns. Also, with those cards with effects that play with revealing cards from your hand in RoE, this is just plainly broken. If this wasn't legendary, everyone would be running four of it. Even without mana ability, this does for an Eldrazi deck the same that Artifact Lands did for affinity, and everyone still remembers that.
Posted By:
Luke_BPC
(7/15/2010 7:03:35 PM)
You don't ever wanna get this in a zendikar limited.
Posted By:
iSlapTrees
(4/16/2011 5:17:26 PM)
Interesting fact:
If you look at the card Ghostfire, it's flavor text mentions the eye of Ugin. I'm thinking that they will reprint it in Rise of the Eldrazi, and change it's typeline to say Instant-Eldrazi. Then it would just be a colorless Lightning Bolt with Eye of Ugin on the battlefield.
Still not worth it, though.
Posted By:
DRKLCNS
(2/2/2010 11:47:47 AM)
@Lithl: Sweet, thanks so much for that info! However, is the end of the set a cliffhanger, or do they defeat the Eldrazi? I hope not, I want a Scars of Zendikar!
Posted By:
Superllama12
(3/24/2011 3:38:59 PM)
wait....what spells are eldrazi?
Posted By:
nathaze
(1/29/2010 10:22:53 AM)
Anyone who finds this card worthless is just being a fool. Despite the current lack of Eldrazi, it's not like steamflogger boss, who would obviously not find use in his own set. It wasn't as though time spiral block was going to spawn contraptions, whatever they were going to be, especially at the point of future sight. Wizards can't exactly tell us "Oh by the way, the Eldrazi will never exist." after naming an entire set after them. Despite it's lack of use now, I will be stocking up 4 of these in anticipation of how valuable these will be when May comes. Guess who's going to be playing an artifact deck next set... They are artifacts, right?
Posted By:
Redfurd
(1/30/2010 7:25:21 AM)
I think Mycosynth Lattice would make all of the little color-alligned eldrazi cheaper, as well, because they would then be colorless. In that situation this card would become that much better, but also that much worse since you wouldn't be playing standard and there would be much better things to do with Mycosynth Lattice.
Posted By:
Gilder_Bairn
(5/1/2010 8:59:27 PM)
Guys, remember, Steamflogger Boss is a teaser for something they admitted they would never print. This card is better compared to Shield of Kaldra if anything.
If it helps, think of it as "T: Add 2, use this only to cast Eldrazi. When you cast an Eldrazi, untap this."
Anyway, searching out a Sundering Titan towards the end of an EDH game seems like a nice thing to be able to do even without Eldrazi.
Posted By:
mutantman
(1/29/2010 3:50:38 PM)