The ability is only OK, but but it has no drawbacks besides being legendary. If you have legends in a white deck, this is at least a one-of.
Posted By:
Pinsir52
(5/6/2010 9:42:28 AM)
This is a perfect cards for edh! Prevent 2 damage from your general? Sure, why not.
Posted By:
Kurraga
(5/28/2010 6:20:47 AM)
Without the mana cost, it would be epic. As it is, perfectly useful in the right deck.
Posted By:
Enemy_Tricolor
(10/12/2010 8:10:07 PM)
@tavaritz: According to the Kamigawa novels, Eiganjo is not inherently indestructible - but the Kami won't attack it because it houses That Which Was Taken.
And... aye... as others have said, pretty good card. The ability isn't anything special but it hardly hurts. In any deck running white legends you're unlikely to lose much by playing one copy. Nonbasic hate isn't seen that much these days.
Posted By:
stygimoloch
(5/3/2011 6:09:45 AM)
"Wanna bolt my Darien, King of Kjeldor?"
Posted By:
pigknight
(1/20/2011 5:25:59 PM)
It's useful in white weenie if you're running creatures like isamaru and 8.5 tails which is, of course, the deck that ran this back in the day.
Posted By:
Digit
(7/17/2010 9:31:50 AM)
Any deck with White and at least 1 Legendary creature should run one of these
Posted By:
International
(9/25/2010 6:16:59 PM)
@tavaritz: The kami intentionally avoided hitting Eiganjo. Stone Rain's flavor text doesn't exclude that possibility.
Posted By:
Axelle
(7/10/2012 10:05:43 PM)
@tavaritz: You seem to have misread Stone Rain's flavortext It clearing states Eiganjo Castle was still standing, but does not state it was ever hit by the fire, rock, and rage of the spirits described in the text; just that it remained. You are assuming that means it was hit and survived the destruction, but it could also mean it was never the target, that the targets were everything else.
I'm not a fan of legendary lands. Some like this have good abilities, but I don't like accidental land destruction when someone else plays this forgetting I had one of my own in play. This is why Wizards now prints cards like Emeria, the Sky Ruin, which would otherwise have been legendary, without the legendary supertype.
Posted By:
sarroth
(8/19/2012 5:01:36 PM)
@Everyone wondering why this could not be stone rained. Eiganjo Castle held That Which Was Taken, the whole reason for the mortal/kami war. Guess what That Which Was Taken does. It makes things indestructible. It all makes perfect sense!
Posted By:
Stinga
(12/2/2012 11:38:51 AM)