Quit QQing about "improved" removal with crap like baneslayers running around.
You lose your creature gain a land and are tapped out. And? What about counters? Same deal minus the land. Not done when cast? You're not tapped out, replace the creature. If this kills your deck, no offense, it probably isn't very good.
Also, white has TONS of removal, it always has. Where have people been? White does board sweeps and exile. THAT is how it's always been
Posted By:
BlackAlbino
(4/15/2011 9:47:13 PM)
Swords to Plowshares and this card are equally broken in that with cards like Time Reversal, Timetwister, and the like, you keep getting these little white exilers back. Your opponent never gets their creatures back.
Posted By:
DacenOctavio
(6/12/2011 8:28:13 AM)
For the Archive Trap combo with this card, Path to Exile says "It's controller may search its library..." The question I have is, they have the choice to search or not right? Most players playing against a White/Blue combo could anticipate this, and simply not walk into the trap. Am I right that the word "may" plays in important role in all cards, and that it may or may not happen?
Posted By:
KevinFromHeaven
(8/29/2010 10:02:50 PM)
4Path to Exile plus 4 Isochron Scepter equals creature removal from game, its a great combo.
Posted By:
HaseoYamazaki
(5/15/2011 1:28:22 AM)
Such a low rating for such a great card? True, maybe not as balanced or true to the {W} flavor, but it's still an amazing card.
First
Posted By:
VirtueVsVice
(7/10/2010 8:40:57 PM)
Wizards of the cost is getting too friendly with the aggro style play. That's why they let this out, because when you think of the game as a five turn death race, where you will never ever see anything costing six or more, it's a semi balanced card.
Anyway, not a balanced card, not fare, and not white. Put simply, it doesn't belong.
Also, white needs to not get so much removal. That's black, it always has been.
Posted By:
Zoah
(8/1/2010 12:53:40 AM)
This card isn't as good as Swords to Plowshares. Anyone who says it is needs to learn about card advantage and the speed of most good decks. Even if my creature has 4 power, I'd usually prefer the land. Still, a Swords to Plowshares reprint would be BAD, so I like this more balanced, but still very potent, version.
Posted By:
Phoenix1901
(4/22/2011 8:54:12 PM)
a bit overpowered 2.5 s
Posted By:
TheMoustacheCame
(7/11/2010 9:15:13 PM)
@BlackAlbino: in fact there are plenty of "counter target creature spell" for only 
out there (hint: sarcasm...)! And white didn't have so much definitive creature removal that was so cheap until, I think, Oblivion Ring... White removal should be restricted or non-definitive, and surely not so cheap and easy to use... Nowadays white removal are surely more powerful and cheaper than the black ones. Don't have even restriction of any sort! And stop saying that this is fair because Swords to Plowshares was in alpha, because even Ancestral Recall was, as already said! So why not reprint Ancestral?
I think that white removal should be like Devouring Light (or damage based), only for ATTACKING creatures, not blocking... I mean: how the color of justice punish people that want to defend itself?
Increasing this card's mana cost by 
could have made this card a lot more balanced, at least...
3/5
Posted By:
leomistico
(10/26/2011 2:04:26 PM)
Way overpowered. And really bloody annoying to play against. At best, they should have reprinted Swords. But to take Swords and improve it even further, that I can't understand. A casting cost of 2 CMC would have been fair for this card, but at 1 CMC it is rather ridiculous. It's a great card, that just happens to ruin games.
They should reprint Black Lotus, but only make it better too.
1/5 (for being uber powerful and really #@$^&% annoying).
Posted By:
feeble2002
(1/8/2011 1:15:19 PM)