The "tear" part is on the right of the colon which means it doesn't happen until resolution. So if you have a way to return it to hand in response to the tap (vedalken mastermind) you will get the mana and not have to tear it up.
Posted By:
Tommy9898
(9/11/2011 8:41:19 PM)
This is a lotus grown at an even more southern part of Africa.
Posted By:
001010011100101110
(9/20/2011 12:50:22 PM)
@dberry02 That wouldn't work, actually. March of the Machines gives them power and toughness equal to their converted mana cost. In other words, Blacker Lotus would just die due to having 0 toughness. Adding in a card that gave your Blacker Lotus additional toughness as a creature would do it, however.
Posted By:
Harleau
(10/7/2011 12:05:26 PM)
@dberry02 - you need at least one more card to give blacker lotus 0/+1 at least. Otherwise it just dies to March of the Machines.
Posted By:
smokyWSDXS
(11/15/2011 8:38:07 AM)
@Achillesbow
You're completely missing the point of this card.
The "rip this up" clause is to encourage you not to play it, whereas anyone would put Black Lotus into any deck if they could (ignoring its price and looking at its playability only).
Think of it this way. You have a few copies of the best card in the game, right? But you have to rip them up to use them. You wouldn't do it.
You have a copy of Black lotus. Do you play it in your deck and risk your opponent deciding to shuffle for you, and doing it a little roughly? Of course you don't. "IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!"
Anyways, SICK Trinket Mage target. But it doesn't combo with Auriok Salvagers.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(3/6/2012 5:39:10 PM)
So if this card were legal, it would be incredibly valuable and incredibly worthless at the same time. ;)
Posted By:
GlassJoetheChamp
(3/23/2012 7:12:11 PM)
who would want to tear up a rare card. makes no since! but for marketing it's brilliant
Posted By:
Garruk849
(7/16/2012 5:22:02 PM)
@ dberry02 Yeah except your blacker lotuses would immediately die of having 0 toughness, ya dingleberry
Posted By:
Layk
(7/29/2012 7:10:01 PM)
Addressing some of the physical "workarounds" for the cost. . .I would think some of those would violate the use of the word "tear" as the action of creating "pieces" of the card. Being of human size, brushing or rubbing a card is not "tearing", and neither is necessarily removing tape from the card.
Posted By:
Stuflames
(3/1/2013 4:10:04 PM)
To those pointing out the tearing is part of the effect rather than the cost:
The ability is a mana ability, which does not use the stack. You can't intervene with something like a Claws of Gix to prevent tearing or use a Voltaic Key to get two activations.
Posted By:
Mooby
(3/30/2013 11:26:27 PM)