So.... if you use all four abilities one after each other, you've spent four mana and four turns doing something Mad Prophet can do instantly? There has to be something broken this can do, and I can't wait until it's discovered, because I would hope Wizards wouldn't print something like this without the Johnnies in mind.
Posted By:
General_Naga
(7/7/2012 12:41:43 PM)
Should have been flavored as an artifact instead of a land, but for balance reasons this card is the correct type. In the prerelease i saw a guy use this to great effect to get in the top 8, and i understand why. The sheer versatility is hard to beat, and each ability begs to be abused. Worst comes to worst it is 
pay 1 life and tap : target non-trampling non-flying non-shadow non-unblockable creature is blocked. At best it is an engine to do basically whatever you want given time. recur artifacts? check. Sacrifice engine? check. Card draw? check. Tokens? you betcha. The sheer card advantage and potential abusement this gives is what makes this a fairly good rare to open in limited or to put into a combo deck.
Posted By:
jsttu
(7/9/2012 1:27:54 PM)
If I had to play a sandbox game with a deck of a trillion cards from now until the end of time I'd definitely want to get this card out early.
Posted By:
SarcasmElemental
(8/15/2012 2:54:15 PM)
Holy CRAP the goats have returned!
Posted By:
DoragonShinzui
(8/18/2012 5:37:25 PM)
I love the flavor of this card - mayhaps it represents the trading POST rather than the land it sits on? ^^
- Quite by accident I discovered the sheer amount of abusing this thing can take with a dross scorpion and a pair of myr retrievers - or a cathodion - in a semblance anvil environment. Early game it become a massive car draw engine as my myr retrievers can be saced once or twice a turn for cards - then as my combo comes around it becomes a way to get artifact creatures lost from enduring renewal back.
Posted By:
Cloudchaser.Kestrel
(8/25/2012 11:13:02 PM)
Certainly this says something about my own ineptitude, but I totally lost a game at the pre-release to skillful use of this card.
Posted By:
Glunders
(9/3/2012 6:50:30 PM)
This card is so versatile, it's almost hard not to dream up combos for it.
Posted By:
WiNGSPANTT
(10/6/2012 2:08:48 PM)
I want to build a B/U self-mill throne of empires deck that uses this to play the artifacts from the graveyard.
Posted By:
infinight
(10/10/2012 2:41:48 AM)
This is one of the most Flavorful cards ever. Hell, it can basically go in ANY deck.
Posted By:
Pigfish99
(11/30/2012 12:40:06 PM)
A must have in goat decks
Posted By:
flavioal28
(12/12/2012 12:49:17 AM)