Enormous?
Flavorful?
Game-Ending?
Cheat-into-playable?
Yeah, a pretty darn good card.
Posted By:
HairlessThoctar
(1/31/2010 5:25:24 PM)
Running two copies of this in my dredge deck. This thing is just unreal.
Posted By:
YoshiOfADown
(2/2/2010 2:35:25 PM)
Expensive as hell, but when she gets on the table, she's totally nuts. I don't like this philosophy much, but thene again, getting her onto the battlefield (at last!) is probably extremly satisfying.
Posted By:
skew
(2/3/2010 10:34:05 PM)
So I guess the death of any monocolored deck is cmc 9, huh?
Posted By:
thezanet
(2/11/2010 3:36:51 PM)
I recently ran into Iona in a game, and the guy I was playing against told me her effect is permanent, even if she leaves play. He then removed her from play and brought her back in again, choosing a different color, and essentially paralyzing my deck. Since it was just a friendly game, I didn't argue the rule very long. However, I did email customer service for rule clarification, just in case I see her again in another game. So, since there seems to be some uncertainty here regarding her abilities, here is the official ruling, straight from Wizards' rule gurus:
Iona, Shield of Emeria's ability is only in effect while she is in play. If she leaves play at any point, the ability immediately ends. This is a standard feature of abilities that do not give a duration effect. Once the card providing the ability leaves play, the ability ends.
As I told the other player, any other way of running it would make her far too powerful and broken to be playable.
Posted By:
TheMurderousKitten
(2/25/2010 10:11:48 AM)
yeah of course: if Iona leaves the game, the effect doesn't work anymore.
If effect stay in play after creature kill, it is specified on the card (exemple: "Obsidian Fireheart": ... The land continues to burn after Obsidian Fireheart has left the battlefield.)
Posted By:
boubou80
(3/2/2010 1:51:15 AM)
Deathrender and martyr of the sands...
Posted By:
Arthindole
(3/12/2010 4:51:27 PM)
This card is insane in reanimate, if your playing mono color and know the color you can win turn one.
Swamp, Dark Ritual, Entomb(Iona), Exhume, name color you win.
Posted By:
Thatguy368
(3/22/2010 6:59:56 PM)
@Dingo777: A slightly more risky, but faster method of bringing this out with Painter's Servant.
T1: Forest, Arbor Elf
T2: Forest, Greenseeker Druid
T3: Forest, Painter's Servant (call whatever color you like, besides purple), Elvish Piper
T4: Use Elvish Piper to drop Iona (choosing the same color you did for Painter's Servant), take a picture of the look on your oppponent's face (it's going to be priceless)
Or, staying within the bounds of Constructed, replace Painter's Servant with Vines of Vastwood in your hand to protect the Piper from doomblades.
Posted By:
statiefreez
(4/3/2010 3:56:11 PM)
Karakas
Posted By:
kusumoto
(4/13/2010 8:39:20 AM)