Represents a change in design philosophy. Wotc want you to attack with dudes and decks that do otherwise or in ways they don't like will have oppressive cheap ways to kill the whole deck.
Posted By:
mlanier131
(1/27/2012 1:04:49 AM)
I find it hilarious people are in a rage because this hoses some Standard deck possibilities.
Me? I'm happy as I could be. This absolutely hoses Dredge and Entomb/Reanimate. And seriously, *** Entomb/Reanimate, and *** Dredge. *** them. ***.
Posted By:
Azazyel
(1/30/2012 1:50:00 PM)
@Salient
You seem to be confusing "putting onto the battlefield" with "casting." i run a storm deck, so i know that there is QUITE a big difference. all those combos that you just said... they still work. i guess Panglacial Wurm gets shut down by this, but polymorph, natural order, tinker, green suns zenith... all of those still function with this on the field.
also, to my opinion on the card, I've always been of the belief that if you're running a deck without artifact/enchantment removal, one day, you WILL be hosed by one. this card just says, be prepared.
also, i love the flavor of it. it wouldn't have fit into any other set.
Posted By:
turtleknite
(2/15/2012 2:20:37 PM)
Is there anything that can be cast from a library? Nothing that I can think of, at least in standard. Graveyard, however... awesome card, slightly broken unless you count how easy it is to remove artifacts in today's metagame.
Posted By:
LPFan55
(2/17/2012 1:11:16 PM)
Best anti-pod deck ever:
4 Grafdigger's Cage
56 Land
Posted By:
MrFluffyThing
(3/1/2012 10:02:06 AM)
Zac Hill discusses the card.
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/ld/179
Posted By:
DoubleTarget
(1/29/2012 6:08:14 PM)
This is a fun card, only rated below 4 by those people whose decks are shut down by it. That's unfortunate, and comparable to rating Iona (or similar cards) low simply because she (or the others) shut down your deck.
If this card shuts down your deck, re-design your deck. Mono-colored decks are less exciting than multi-colored decks, anyway.
Posted By:
humor_love
(7/24/2012 4:52:06 AM)
The below 4 rating for this card is most definitely from hate. How petty.
Posted By:
TastetheJace
(7/30/2012 11:37:40 PM)
This is why I don't play in tournaments, when you can shut down a whole deck strategy for 1 colourless mana, sideboards just make the game less fun. And it's so uneven, sideboard cards against other strategies costs a lot more mana, but for some reason, graveyard hate is mana cheap as f*ck, I mean this does way more than what you should get for 1 colourless mana.
I like it a lot better when magic is about optimizing your deck to its fullest, instead of being "I sideboard this in so your deck doesn't work, you sideboard that in so my deck doesn't work, so now we have 2 crippled decks fighting each other, isn't it fun?" But this is not even the worst, that 2 mana enchantment is just ridiculous.
Posted By:
Sironos
(11/13/2012 11:39:22 AM)
This card is far from amazing in terms of graveyard hate. I'd rather just use graveyard removal like Bojuka Bog or Rest in Peace. But the thing is, it stops Reanimator and Ichorids from returning, it stops birthing pod and oath of druids or even just snapcaster mage shenanigans as long as this stays on the battlefield. So, this has more applications then just straight up graveyard removal but in the match-ups where you need graveyard hate cards to survive this isn't always going to be good enough. For example, this does literally nothing against living end because living end puts the creatures into play from exile, not the graveyard. Also, a lot of the time those types of decks are going to be side-boarding into artifact hate so, cards that immediately exile their graveyard and/or can't be responded to via cards like Krosan Gr... (see all)
Posted By:
Ligerman30
(5/24/2013 6:55:06 PM)