No, sorry. Into the Roil isn't better. This can hit their land turn two. Roil can't.
You really can't compare cards so simply that have so many differences. Instant vs sorcery, land vs nonland, kicker vs no kicker. So both are situationally better or worst than each other.
Posted By:
OmegaSerris
(7/3/2011 11:29:50 AM)
Basically, it increases your chance to gain tempo by bouncing a land on your second turn. Nice card.
Posted By:
SweetZombiJesus
(11/19/2010 8:45:12 AM)
Don't compare this to Into the Roil. Into the Roil is a quality constructed card that sees play in every Blue/X control deck as either a 2 of or a singleton across the board in control archetypes... In Standard.
Instant bounce with an optional cantrip matters. However, this card is not without merit. It's a fixed Boomerang.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(8/25/2011 12:15:51 PM)
@Fictionarious: Have you ever heard of a deck called Owling Mine, that was around during the Kamigawa/Ravnica standard? The deck was focused on preventing your opponents from doing anything, and flooding their hands with useless cards, killing them off with Ebony Owl Netsuke and similar finishers. Boomerang or Eye of Nowhere on a land was their ideal turn 2 play. I think that is a circumstance hitting someone's land with a "return target permanent" spell on turn 2 is a good idea, don't you?
Posted By:
SomeGuy007
(2/5/2013 8:09:32 AM)
Works with Izzet Guildmage and Desperate Ritual, ideally with Training Grounds, to bounce everything.
Of course Lava Spike is better, as is Ideas Unbound, but this is a good alternative to have if you haven't drawn them yet and you're opponent has several big threats.
Posted By:
Aehetag
(3/9/2013 1:09:56 AM)
It may be a sorcery only, but it's a cheap bounce nonetheless that might find use if you already have four Boomerangs in your deck.
Posted By:
Mode
(8/7/2009 10:52:49 AM)
I never really understood why Magnivore needed an anti-land early game. None the less, this saw play to remove lands to get prepared for a devastating Wildfire.
Posted By:
Orim-s_Thunder
(11/29/2009 8:47:14 AM)
There are precisely NO circumstances where hitting someone's land with a "return target permanent" spell on turn 2 is a good idea.
Also, if you're not here for your arcane deck or burning wish, as I am and as thedarkheathen referenced, then yeah, there are objectively better things out there. Like Into the Roil. Or Boomerang. Or Echoing Truth.
Posted By:
Fictionarious
(8/1/2012 10:03:33 PM)
Unless you're playing Arcane, Into the Roil is better.
Posted By:
VampireCat
(1/13/2011 8:59:23 AM)
Plus its an arcane, so you could splice into it, could be worth something
Posted By:
bijart_dauth
(11/16/2010 10:28:47 AM)