Stasis decks love this card...
Posted By:
Guest57443454
(7/2/2009 10:40:26 AM)
And by changing the terminology they opened a can of worms.
The artifacts don't work if they are tapped worked only on poly and continous artifacts. So Mana Vault never stopped you getting hurt if it was tapped until they changed the mono, poly and continous distinction.
Because of this blunder WoTC changed the rule so that artifacts work while tapped and errated a bunch of old cards like Howling Mine to get the effect they used to have.
Posted By:
tavaritz
(6/10/2011 11:33:35 AM)
wow, they attempted to change the card's abilit... check out what it says the card does next to the picture... It doesn't say "tap" on the card (for example how strip mine says tap, and that is from the same set)
Posted By:
Megrimage
(9/24/2009 9:33:27 PM)
Separate lands? Aww, but I wanted to double-untap one of my lands...
Posted By:
kazenpaus
(11/25/2012 2:26:45 PM)
Remember kids, when this card was printed, the only cards you could combo with this for extra mana were:
Gauntlet of Might
Mana Flare
Wild Growth
Mishra's Workshop
Urza's Mine, Urza's Power Plant, and Urza's Tower (if all three were out).
That's not actually a lot of utility. Aside from that, all you could do with it is little tricks like small amounts of color-fixing (like turning a Mountain and a Swamp into two Swamps for the turn) or getting multiple uses out of a nonbasic with a non-mana activation (like Bazaar of Baghdad), of which there were about 10.
In that context, is this a great card? In the right deck, I guess. In most decks, it was just okay.
Posted By:
Zetan
(5/17/2013 9:09:31 PM)