I second what AnTzero has to say. If you're in need of a sac outlet for your artifacts, this would be a worthwhile card to consider.
@Garabor: Well, to be fair, they also got Inkmoth Nexus.
Posted By:
Talcos
(4/29/2011 6:03:44 AM)
Fun art comparison with Mirrodin's Core.
Posted By:
MrBarrelRoll
(4/29/2011 4:30:28 AM)
The flavor allusion to Mirrodin's Core is quite off. While it is indeed very phyrexian to consume things for gain, being a weak Claws of Gix isn't very cool :/
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(7/31/2011 10:14:10 PM)
I wish this was an artifact land.
Posted By:
NickDay
(7/15/2012 11:47:18 AM)
Mirrodin... TT~TT
Posted By:
iSlapTrees
(5/3/2011 8:25:21 AM)
phyrexia's only non-basic land and it is such a let down.. if only it didn't cost mana to activate.
Posted By:
garabor
(4/28/2011 1:44:10 PM)
It's not bad: it produces mana, and enters the battlefield untapped. You're hardly penalized for getting a land with a non-mana ability. That is generally a good thing.
However, the ability it has is so weak that it's hard to get very excited over it. One life is meaningless trifle. A fun use of High Market was a cheap counter to Control Magic-type effects; unfortunately, artifact theft isn't nearly as rampant as creature theft. Both High Market and Phyrexia's Core can be used to put permanents in the grave reliably, but adding a mana requirement to the less-useful ability's cost just makes me scratch my head and wonder why.
Posted By:
scumbling1
(5/17/2011 4:17:03 PM)
Grossly underrated.
Posted By:
TherealphatMatt
(4/8/2012 12:22:22 PM)
I think of this as me directly sapping the core of the life force it contains, using an artifact sacrifice to tap into the phyrexian chokehold on the core.
It returns the flavor, then... but I feel a little guilty every time I use it.
Posted By:
Salient
(2/3/2012 10:32:15 AM)
DoragunShazumi doesn't know Phyrexia flavor very well -_-
Gaining life is actually quite in flavor for them. :P Read the old "Artifacts Cycle" books. Yawgmoth was a CLERIC. An evil one, sure. Which is why you have to kill artifact creatures to gain life (artifact creatures being possibly easier to make than just artifacts, depending on your style/how many Memnites you own).
This isn't a useless card.
It has plenty of flavor.
I LIKE that it's more colorless than the rest of New Phyrexia- it reminds me of the last remains of Old Phyrexia buried within the New. :)
TBPH: If you want a really Sick Phyrexian Land, you have Inkmoth Nexus. If you want better or different that but still strong and flavorful.....Phyrexians don't do a whole lot of things fairly. You probably want broken cards. :P
PS: Is this situationally better than High Market?
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(4/17/2013 7:55:11 PM)