This is a great land to play as a singleton in any deck, that is not heavily contingent on coloured mana sources. It comes into play untapped and can buffer your mana a bit. In slow control decks it nets more life than you'd think. For a land that comes into play untapped, with no drawbacks at all, and gives a colourless mana from the get go, its pretty good. the rest of you are expecting too much
Posted By:
Hovercraft
(12/21/2011 1:50:09 PM)
First turn drop, by turn three it's already netted you 3 life. Amazing artwork too.
Posted By:
FragNutMK1
(2/25/2010 4:11:00 AM)
I guess there might be some uses...Myr deck, perhaps?
Posted By:
izzet_guild_mage
(5/13/2010 8:45:42 AM)
It's like they were afraid to call it a Legendary land. I know, it's not quite the same effect (both you and your opponents can have sheltered valleys) but still...
Plus, they put that downside on a card that already sucks: who wants to be stuck at 3 lands just for 1 life a turn?
Posted By:
ScissorsLizard
(2/22/2010 6:14:25 PM)
@theDAYtheMUSICdied: Check out Sorrow's Path. Nothing worse than that one. As crappy as Sheltered Valley is, it at least this produces mana...
Posted By:
Dr_Draco
(9/30/2009 7:10:50 PM)
Oh come now, guys, it's not that bad. It doesn't come into play tapped. Honestly, it's just very mediocre. It doesn't improve your mana to run multiples but you could run a single one in a deck based around lifegain effects like Ajani's Pridemate or something.
Posted By:
NARFNra
(7/6/2013 11:18:12 AM)
this could have been broken you know-
if it had been Legendary instead, Mirror Hall would break it!
1 life a turn with one out..
2 with 2 out
3 with 3!
every turn, you can play cmc 3 artifacts, and you gain 3 life.
Skullclamp, Black Lotus, Moxen, Ornithopters, Sensei's Divining Top, Memnites, Arcbound Ravagers, Phyrexian Dreadnoughts, and Swords of Mirrodin would all be useable in that deck.
GREAT CALL WIZARDS DEVELOPMENT! YOU SAVED US FROM A TERRIFYING DECK LOADED WITH CHEAP ARTIFACTS! THANK YOU FOR PREDICTING MIRROR HALL'S CREATION!
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Screw you Wizards. :p
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(1/31/2012 10:50:14 PM)
worst...land...ever
Posted By:
theDAYtheMUSICdied
(8/21/2009 6:33:38 PM)
Such a shame, nice art though so it gets a 1.0
Posted By:
Arthindole
(1/24/2011 1:22:11 AM)
great rare. great job r&d.
Posted By:
benegade
(8/10/2010 1:50:58 PM)