I hate it when I look up a beautiful, powerful card and almost all the comments on it are retarded.
Posted By:
Goatllama
(2/17/2013 5:34:02 PM)
Ok i want to ask something. Why is Diamond considered better than Chrome? Because of the spell discard against land discard? Chrome is mana advantage AND mana acceleration, while Diamond is just mana acceleration.
Imagine this:
Opening hand with 2 lands and either Chrome or Diamond
Chrome:
1st turn: Put land down, put Chrome down 2 mana total
2nd turn: Put second land down 3 mana total
Diamond:
1st turn: Put land down, put Diamond down 2 mana total
2nd turn: 2 mana total
Chrome seems better right? I know that with it you have 1 spell less, i get that but considering that you have more spells than lands in a deck AND that you are most likely running some kind of fetchland, doesnt this mean that you are more likely to draw a dead Diamond rather than a dead Chrome?
To be honest i think that Lotus Petal is way better suited to be compared to Diamond than Chrome.
Posted By:
Necr0lyte
(2/24/2013 4:36:05 PM)
fusion elemental
Posted By:
battleofwits
(4/22/2013 10:46:39 AM)
I've found it much more difficult to use this card than the Mox Diamond. In the formats where these are playable, decks are typically loaded with artifacts, so you end up with very little choice in what to imprint. Often you end up drawing this and the only thing you can imprint is something you really really don't want to throw away. On the other hand, with the Mox Diamond, it's much more common that you draw some land you don't need (for example, playing urzatron you might draw two power plants in the opening hand).
I agree that there are certain decks where the Chrome Mox will do better. If you are playing a deck with only one or two colors, and less artifacts, you can pretty much sub the chrome mox in for land.
Posted By:
Technetium
(5/17/2013 7:41:28 AM)
Why the Chrome Mox is better than the Mox Diamond.
You can run 4 Chrome Moxes without topdecking absolute worthlessness. A chrome mox can be dropped empty for a Tinker or Shrapnel Blast. Running in combination with Mox Opals and you will most likely not have enough lands to throw away. In the Vintage scene, cheap card draw is easy to come by, especially in blue.
Unless you're playing Land Tax or extremely land-heavy decks like Land's Edge, the Chrome Mox is going to outperform the Mox Diamond and the Mox Opal nearly every time.
Every deck is built with cards that are better if drawn at a later stage in the game. That's what tutors and Scrying is for. In an opening hand, it's almost always preferable to keep your two or three lands.
Posted By:
Neutron_Mox
(7/27/2013 2:17:11 PM)
@Necrolyte
Because Diamond is discard and this is imprint. The graveyard is easy to abuse and the diamond can change color mid game, which is nice. That said, Diamond decks add more lands to compensate and Chrome decks use the mox as land, so have less land.
Chrome => Stompy/Aggro
Diamond => Control or Mid-range
Why? Control and midrange decks need mana sooner than later so they can either do multiple things or make it to their creatures early enough. Chrome on the other hand says "let's do this now!" You treat it like a land and beat the other person down ASAP with your 2-drops.
Certain control cards have to get in place very quickly too, such as Chalice of the Void and Counterbalance. Chrome can also be used where Diamond can't when you *must* make your two-drop T1; such as against combo with Thalia or something.
That said, combo still avoids it because lotus petal and lion's eye diamo... (see all)
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(8/21/2013 2:12:04 PM)
Hehehe, choose a non-artifact, non-land card that is all colors for the imprint ability: becomes 
: Add 1 mana of any color to your mana pool.
Posted By:
Travelsonic
(10/15/2013 5:11:06 PM)
@Necro, you're basing that off the idea that you only have two land. What says you don't draw another during T1 or T2? What if you start with three land in your hand? You're not considering a lot of other situations.
Basically, the Diamond ( generally ) is preferable because it's simple. Drop the diamond, discard a land, you get instant five-color goodness, period. And if you want to reclaim the land, the graveyard is relatively easy to interact with, as opposed to exile.
Chrome is dependent on what you have in your hand. If you want it for mana fixing, it depends on what colors you have in your hand at the time. And while you can reclaim a discarded land, reclaiming the exiled imprint renders the Crome worthless for mana. That's not to say a Chrome is never preferable to a Diamond. Dropping an empty one for metalcraft and sacrificing is great for some decks. But for basic mana acceleration and fixing, the Diamond is usually the better choice.
Posted By:
RedJaron
(10/22/2013 5:11:02 PM)
The only card in Magic history to contain both the words "nonartifact" and "nonland".
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(12/25/2013 10:06:02 PM)