Potential card advantage, potential board advantage, graveyard hate, restoring the possibility you'll have access to cards that were in your graveyard, combo piece for infinite mana, ... amazing card.
Also, Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind and Consecrated Sphinx love this thing. Make sure to have a Reliquary Tower or other card with the clause "you have no maximum hand size" if you're using Time Spiral with Consecrated Sphinx on the battlefield!
Posted By:
AmericanVigor
(9/29/2012 12:01:42 PM)
Time Spiral became a lot less happy when the scrounger Morningtide also managed its own block.
Posted By:
psychichobo
(11/2/2012 4:50:55 PM)
Library of Alexandria.
Posted By:
SereneChaos
(11/22/2012 5:28:39 AM)
A hand of new cards and the mana to use them? Oh, Urza...
Posted By:
talcumpowder0046
(2/5/2013 6:23:27 PM)
This card is awesome. Timetwister, plus untapping Academy? A bunch of cards and a bunch of mana... would you be shocked if I told you combo was a thing during Urza's block/standard/extended?
Posted By:
RedAtrocitus
(3/24/2013 6:10:11 PM)
This is one of, like, five cards I own that's worth over $10, so I've never had the pleasure of running it alongside Tolarian Academy. But this is still AT WORST a free late-game Timetwister and I can't come up with a compelling case against including it in any Legacy blue deck I make.
Posted By:
aboblyndsae
(4/17/2013 6:48:02 AM)
My most prized card I own is one of these.
"Oh, you all have your commanders on the field? I'll just overload this Cyclonic Rift at your end step and...." Yeah. I've done it. Multiple times. And if Panoptic Mirror weren't banned in EDH...!
Posted By:
kor6sic6
(11/17/2013 12:57:24 AM)
It's my favorite card in ALL OF MAGIC. And it's pretty ridiculously powerful, in most cases being more powerful than the original Timetwister.
Posted By:
Technetium
(3/19/2014 12:05:38 PM)